Jim Olson: Eschewing Cynicism in the Face of Evil
If you ask the gray-haired, mild-mannered professor emeritus from the Texas A&M Bush School of Government if “Jim Olson” is really his name, he will tell you, “It is now.” Jim must be coy about identifying himself too cavalierly. There are dangerous people all around the world who are not too fond of him, mostly because of how successful he was at stealing their secrets.
After serving as the CIA’s Chief of Counterintelligence, Jim could tell you plenty of stories about his career as a spy. He describes his most dangerous mission as one that began by slinking down a Moscow manhole. Alone at night, he navigated below the Russian streets to place a listening device on one of the Soviets’...
is a graduate of the U. S. Naval Academy (B. S., Aerospace Engineering) and Biola University (M.A., Christian Apologetics). Recently retired, his professional aviation career included 8 years in the U. S. Marine Corps flying the AV-8B Harrier attack jet and nearly 32 years as a commercial airline pilot. Bob blogs about Christianity and the culture at: True Horizon.
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