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About Richard Coffman

Dick Coffman is an international business and security consultant and media commentator on intelligence, homeland security and terrorism. He is managing Director of Odysseus Group International, which provides risk management and security solutions to the transportation, basic infrastructure and manufacturing industries. Mr. Coffman specializes in ports and maritime security and homeland defense. He is founder and President of Coffman Global Group, which leverages worldwide networks for business development and marketing in high technology, basic materials and capital construction.

Mr. Coffman has conducted assessments of intelligence operations for the U.S. Customs Service and the Office of Naval Intelligence and for a major defense contractor.

Mr. Coffman served 31 years in the Central Intelligence Agency where he formed and managed the Agency's first counterterrorism analytic organization and served as Chief of Station, chief of staff to the Director of the Clandestine Service, coordinator of major worldwide covert intelligence programs and CIA representative to the NATO Commander.

He also served four years in the U.S. Marine Corps, including duty in Vietnam in 1965 and 1966. Mr. Coffman remained in the Marine Corps Reserves retiring in 1992 at the grade of Colonel. Mr. Coffman is a student of military history and an authority on the U.S. Civil War.