Stephen Slick

Stephen Slick   ( lawyer,  spook)
Born	Stephen Brent Slick
Nationality	US
Alma mater	•  Pennsylvania State University •  UCLA School of Law •  Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
CIA spook who was Chief of Station in two countries.  Director of Intelligence Studies Project In office 2015 - Present Employer University of Texas at Austin  CIA/Near East and South Asia Division/Tel Aviv Station/Chief In office 2009 - 2013  CIA/Central Eurasia Division/Budapest Station/Chief In office 1998 - 2000 Succeeded by Michael Winograd

Stephen Brent Slick is a retired CIA spook who was Chief of Station in two countries.

Education

Slick holds a degree in political science from the Pennsylvania State University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and law degree from the UCLA School of Law, where he was a member of Law Review. In 2001, he also took a Master's Degree in Public Policy from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs while studying on a John L. Weinberg fellowship.

From 1983–1986, Slick was a litigation associate at the Rawle and Henderson law firm in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Career

Slick joined the CIA in 1986. After completing basic espionage tradecraft and foreign language training, Slick was posted under diplomatic cover at the US embassies in East Berlin (1989-91), New Delhi (1991-93), and Kiev (1994-96), the last on possibly as Deputy Chief of Station.

From 1996–1998, he was assigned to CIA Headquarters, where he directed the CIA's training and tradecraft development for operations in complex security and counterintelligence environments.

He was chief of station in Budapest 1998-2000, during the Kosovo War.

Slick returned to Langley to lead the CIA's Balkan Operations.

He then became an Executive Assistant to Deputy Director of Central Intelligence John McLaughlin.

In 2004, he moved to the National Security Council (NSC) as Director for Intelligence Programs. In 2005, Slick was appointed Special Assistant to the President and NSC Senior Director for Intelligence Programs and Reform. In this latter position, he was an advisor on intelligence matters to the President and the assistants to the President for national security affairs, homeland security, and counterterrorism.

Later activities

In January 2015, Slick was named the first Director of the Intelligence Studies Project, at the University of Texas at Austin. He was appointed as a Professor at the University's Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the same time. Slick is Fellow to the Bobby R. Inman Chair in Intelligence Studies.

In August 2016, Slick was among 50 senior Republican national security officials who signed a letter declaring that Donald Trump "lacks the character, values and experience" to be president and "would put at risk our country’s national security and well-being." He also joined the larger group of Former Republican National Security Officials in an August 2020 statement declaring President Trump "dangerously unfit" and lacking the "character and competence" to hold the office. The same group expressed confidence that Joe Biden would "restore the dignity of the presidency" and "reassert America’s role as a global leader."<refhttps://www.forbes.com/sites/jemimamcevoy/2020/08/20/over-70-republican-national-security-officials-endorse-biden-deem-trump-dangerously-unfit-for-president/</ref>

In 2020, Slick, along with over 130 other former Republican national security officials, signed a statement that asserted that President Trump was unfit to serve another term, and "To that end, we are firmly convinced that it is in the best interest of our nation that Vice President Joe Biden be elected as the next President of the United States, and we will vote for him."

Slick was part of a group of former spooks that signed a letter that stated the Biden laptop story "has the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation".<refhttps://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/19/hunter-biden-story-russian-disinfo-430276</ref> It was in fact revealed the laptop contained no evidence of Russian disinformation, its contents have been verified as authentic.

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