Fritz ermarth biography

Chicago, Illinois, U.S. Ermarth worked for the Central Intelligence Agency from 1973 until 1998, serving as Chairman of the National Intelligence Council, as National Intelligence Officer for the USSR and East Europe and Director of the Strategic Evaluation Center.
Fritz Ermarth, a distinguished national security official and leading figure in the study of Russian strategy, died on Wednesday.
Fritz W. Ermarth was the Director of National Security Programs at the Nixon Center from 2002 to his death in 2022.

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Wittenberg’s Institute for the Public Humanities was established in 2022 and named in honor of Margaret Sittler Ermarth, a history professor emeritus of Wittenberg University.

Ermarth worked for the university from 1953 until her retirement in 1974 and in 1979 the university created the Ermarth Center for the Humanities which was a conglomeration of humanities departments which lasted until the year 2000. The Ermarth Institute for the Public Humanities is a rebirth of this idea and institution.

She was born on September 7, 1908, in Upper Sandusky, Ohio. Ermarth attended Wittenberg College, graduating with her bachelor’s degree in 1930. She then attended Ohio State University for her master’s degree and then continued her advanced studies at the Universities of Hamburg and Berlin, as well as George Washington University. Before joining the Wittenberg Faculty, she was researcher and writer for the American Council of Learned Societies, then worked as an analyst in the National Archives in Washington DC and finally at Gustavus Adolphous College as a professor in 1947.

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Foreign Relations of the United States, 1977–1980, Volume IV, National Security Policy

85. Memorandum From the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs (Brzezinski) to President Carter1

Washington, August 30, 1978

SUBJECT

Report on My SAC/NORAD Trip

On August 20–21 I took advantage of your absence to familiarize myself with NEACP, to be briefed on the C3I2 problem at SACHQ, to fly a low-level attack mission in a B–52, to inspect a Minuteman silo, to review warning and assessment procedures at NORAD, to inspect tactical fighter training at Nevada, and to visit a site on which I will report orally.

Some key impressions (and you might wish to provide some guidance by marginal notes):

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The military enormously appreciate the direct interest you have shown in C3I issues. This was mentioned everywhere. In this connection, I believe that we ought to run an IVORY ITEM on an LNO. We have not done this and that issue could become more critical in the years ahead.

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I was struck by the extent of U.S. C3 vulnerability. More work on this is needed, and I wi

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Section I - INTELLIGENCE HIGHLIGHTS

FBI chief says threat from China 'more brazen' than ever before - APNews/CNBC, 1 Feb 2022

Key Points:
The threat to the West from the Chinese government is "more brazen" and damaging than ever before, FBI Director Christopher Wray said Monday night, just days before Beijing is set to occupy the global stage by hosting the Winter Olympics.
The bureau is opening new cases to counter Chinese intelligence operations every 12 hours or so, Wray said, with Chinese government hackers pilfering more personal and corporate data than all other countries combined.
Chinese government officials have repeatedly rejected accusations from the U.S. government, with the spokesman for the embassy in Washington saying last July that Americans have "made groundless attacks" and malicious smears about Chinese cyberattacks. Article here
Also see: "China's Quest for Economic, Political Domination Threatens America's Security: Director Wray Discusses Threats Posed by Government of China" in FBI News, 1 Feb 2022
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