Analyst employed by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, educator, and author. Full name: Ray Steiner Cline. Born 1918; died 1996.
From the description of Ray S. Cline papers, 1945-1994 (bulk 1970-1994). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70983352
Author, educator, intelligence analyst. Born in 1918; full name: Ray Steiner Cline.
From the description of Audio materials, 1974-1984 [sound recording]. 1974-1984. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 40723089
Analyst employed by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, educator, and author. Born 1918; full name: Ray Steiner Cline; d. 1996.
From the description of Papers, 1970-1988. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70937634
Deputy director for intelligence, United States Central Intelligence Agency, 1962-1966.
From the description of Ray S. Cline miscellaneous papers, 1992-1993. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 123419744
Biographical Note
1918, June 4
Born, Anderson Township, Clark Co., Ill.
1939
A.B., Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
1939
1940
Henry Prize Fellow, Balliol College, Oxford University,
Oxford, England
1941
M.A., Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
Married Marjorie Wilson
1941
1942
Junior fellow, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
1942
1943
Cryptanalyst, Department of the Navy
1943
1946
Chief, Current Intelligence Branch, Office of Strategic
Services
1946
1949
Research historian, Office of the Chief of Military History,
United States Army
1949
Ph.D., Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
1949
1951
Intelligence analyst, Central Intelligence Agency
1951
Published
Washington Command Post (Washington: Department of
the Army. 413 pp.)
1951
1953
Attaché, United States embassy, London, England
1954
1958
Intelligence analyst, Central Intelligence Agency
1955
Member, United States delegation, Four Power Heads of State
Conference, Geneva, Switzerland
1958
1962
Director, United States Naval Auxiliary Communications Center,
Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China
1962
1966
Deputy director for intelligence, Central Intelligence
Agency
1966
1969
Special advisor, United States embassy, Bonn, Germany
1969
Awarded distinguished intelligence medal by Central
Intelligence Agency
1969
1973
Director, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, State
Department
1973
Awarded career intelligence medal by Central Intelligence
Agency
1973
1986
Director, world power studies, Center for Strategic and
International Studies, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
1974
Appointed adjunct professor of international relations,
Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
1975
Published
World Power Assessment (Boulder: Westview Press. 173
pp.)
1976
Published
Secrets, Spies, and Scholars (Washington: Acropolis
Books. 294 pp.)
1977
Founded National Intelligence Study Center, Washington,
D.C.
Published
World Power Assessment 1977 (Boulder: Westview
Press. 206 pp.)
circa 1978
Director, Committee on the Present Danger, Washington,
D.C.
1979
Founded Coalition for Asian Peace and Security, Washington,
D.C.
circa 1979
Elected vice president, Committee for a Free China,
Washington, D.C.
President, SIFT, Inc., Washington, D.C.
1980
Published
World Power Trends and U.S. Foreign Policy (Boulder:
Westview Press. 228 pp.)
circa 1980
Adjunct professor, Defense Intelligence School, Washington,
D.C.
1981
Published
The CIA Under Reagan, Bush, and Casey (Washington:
Acropolis Books. 351 pp.) Republished as
The CIA: Reality Versus Myth, 1982
circa 1982
President, Committee for a Free China, Washington,
D.C.
1983
Published with Herbert Block
The Planetary Product in 1982 (Washington: Center
for Strategic and International Studies, Georgetown University. 31 pp.)
1984
Published with Yonah Alexander
Terrorism: The Soviet Connection (New York: Crane
Russak. 162 pp.)
circa 1984
Appointed director of advisory council, Interaction Systems,
Inc., McLean, Va.
1986
Chairman, United States Global Strategy Council, Washington,
D.C.
1988
Published
Metastrategy (New York: Crane Russak 145 pp.) and
Tzereu ot Roosvelta do Reigena (New York: Liberty
Publishing House. n.p.)
1989
Published
Chiang Ching-kuo Remembered: The Man and His Political
Legacy (Washington: United States Global Strategy Council. 197
pp.)
1992
Published
Foreign Policy Failures in China, Cuba, and Nicaragua: A
Paradigm (Washington: United States Global Strategy Council. 246
pp.)
1993
Published
The Power of Nations in the 1990s (Washington:
University Press of America. n.p.)
1996, Mar. 15
Died, Arlington, Va.
From the guide to the Ray S. Cline Papers, 1945-1994, (bulk 1970-1944), (Manuscript Division Library of Congress)
Biographical/Historical Note
Deputy director for intelligence, United States Central Intelligence Agency, 1962-1966.
From the guide to the Ray S. Cline miscellaneous papers, 1992-1993, (Hoover Institution Archives)
