1. Malcolm Wrightson Nance was born on 1961 and is an American author and media pundit.
21 Facts About Malcolm Nance
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Malcolm Nance is a former United States Navy Senior Chief Petty Officer specializing in naval cryptology.
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Malcolm Nance has learned Arabic and is active in the field of national security policy particularly, in anti- and counter-terrorism intelligence, terrorist strategy and tactics, torture and counter-ideology in combating Islamic extremism.
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Malcolm Nance was born to African-American parents in Philadelphia in 1961.
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Malcolm Nance attended the city's West Catholic Boys High School.
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Malcolm Nance studied Spanish, French, and Latin, and took advantage of free classes in Russian and Chinese offered at South Philadelphia High School on Saturdays.
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Malcolm Nance served in the United States Navy from 1981 to 2001.
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Malcolm Nance garnered expertise within the fields of intelligence and counterterrorism.
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Malcolm Nance was an instructor in wartime and peacetime Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape, training Navy and Marine Corps pilots and aircrew how to survive as prisoners of war.
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Malcolm Nance took part in combat operations that occurred after the 1983 Beirut barracks bombings, was peripherally involved with the 1986 United States bombing of Libya, served on USS Wainwright during Operation Praying Mantis and was aboard during the sinking of the Iranian missile boat Joshan, served on USS Tripoli during the Gulf War, and assisted during a Banja Luka, Bosnia air strike.
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In 2001, Malcolm Nance founded Special Readiness Services International, an intelligence support company.
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Malcolm Nance acted as a first responder at the helipad crash site where he helped organize the rescue and recovery of victims.
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Subsequently, Malcolm Nance served as an intelligence and security contractor in Iraq, Afghanistan, the United Arab Emirates and North Africa.
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Between 2005 and 2007 Malcolm Nance was a visiting lecturer on counterterrorism in Sydney, Australia at Macquarie University's Centre on Policing, Intelligence, and Counter-terrorism and at Victoria University of Wellington in Wellington, New Zealand.
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Malcolm Nance now directs a think tank that he founded, the "Terror Asymmetrics Project on Strategy, Tactics and Radical Ideologies", which analyzes counterterrorism.
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Malcolm Nance is a member of the advisory board of directors for the International Spy Museum in Washington, DC.
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Malcolm Nance argued that using the torture techniques of America's former enemies dishonors the memory of US service members who died in captivity through torture, and that torture does not produce credible intelligence.
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Malcolm Nance was called to testify before the US Congress about the use of "enhanced interrogation techniques".
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Malcolm Nance has suggested that Donald Trump was under surveillance by Russian intelligence as early as 1977.
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On March 22,2019, hours before Attorney General William Barr's controversial letter about the Mueller Report on the 2016 Trump campaign and its connections to Russia was released, Malcolm Nance said the report could reveal treason exceeding that of Benedict Arnold.
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Malcolm Nance was married to Maryse Beliveau-Malcolm Nance, who died from ovarian cancer in 2019.