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Biography - William H Drohan

Bill Drohan has spent over thirty-five years as an intelligence officer, including active military service and assignments with three Federal agencies. After graduating from the United States Army Officer Candidate School, Fort Belvoir, Virginia, he began his career as a United States Army Military Intelligence Officer. While on active duty, he researched and prepared Army responses for searches of all counterintelligence records by the United States House of Representatives Assassinations Committee, major class action suits involving Army intelligence, alleged fugitive Nazis, and many other sensitive projects. Mr. Drohan served for nine years in assignments including tactical psychological operations and counterintelligence, before leaving active duty for the Army Reserve. He continued his intelligence career as a civilian intelligence analyst with the United States Drug Enforcement Administration, specializing in Latin American drug trafficking, and serving as Assistant Editor of the National Narcotics Intelligence Consumers Committee’s annual Narcotics Intelligence Estimate. He also represented the Drug Enforcement Administration in the preparation of National Intelligence Estimates relating to drug trafficking. He later served as a Supervisory Intelligence Officer with the Customs Service, Drug Intelligence Branch where he headed the Customs Intelligence Southwest Border Analytic Team, prepared Congressional testimony on drug trafficking for senior Customs management, prepared Customs’ first intelligence collection requirements system, and the first comprehensive study of all locations where Customs operates. He also conducted financial intelligence analyses of money laundering groups; represented Customs in intelligence collection requirements committees, and in the preparation of National Intelligence Estimates and in other inter-agency projects. Mr. Drohan’s last Federal assignment was with the Defense Intelligence Agency where he served as an intelligence analyst, with assignments including the Terrorism Desk, National Military Joint Intelligence Center, Balkans Joint Intelligence Task Force, and NOBLE EAGLE (Counter-terrorism) Intelligence Task Force. He has lectured on the international drug trafficking industry in the instructional programs of the CIA, Joint Military Intelligence Training Center, Defense Attaché School, US Air Force Special Operations School, and at the NATO Defense College. As an Army Reservist, Mr. Drohan taught intelligence collection, national security policy formulation, counter-drug intelligence, and writing at the Joint Military Intelligence College. He was selected Outstanding Reserve Faculty Member of the Year in 1999. He also served as Reserve Director for the College’s Postgraduate Intelligence Program-Reserve, and headed the College’s Army Reserve Detachment, retiring as a Colonel after over thirty years of service. Now retired from both the Army Reserve and the Federal government, Mr. Drohan is currently a faculty member at American Military University, a defense contractor, and author. Mr. Drohan is a certified Intelligence Community Officer and has a BA in Political Science, Boston College, a MA in History, Catholic University of America, a MS in Strategic Intelligence, Joint Military Intelligence, and is a graduate of the US Army Command and General Staff College and the US Air Force Air War College. His awards include the Legion of Merit, the Meritorious Service Medal, the Joint Commendation Medal, and the Military Intelligence Corps Association’s Knowlton Award for outstanding contributions to the military intelligence community. He has published numerous classified intelligence items, and has also published in “Operation JUST CAUSE,” Bruce Watson, ed., Westview Press, and the Defense Intelligence Journal.