Association of Former Intelligence Officers

The Association of Former Intelligence Officers (AFIO), formerly known as the Association of Retired Intelligence Officers is a non-profit, non-partisan advocacy organization founded in 1975 by David Atlee Phillips with help from Gordon McLendon to counter widespread criticism of the United States intelligence community coming from the media and Congress. It is registered with the IRS as a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt charity and sees its primary mission as educational. The AFIO claims that it has 5,000 members in 24 active chapters, most of whom are not former or current intelligence officers; it is not, in fact, necessary to be an actual intelligence officer to be a member of AFIO.

Honorary Board of Directors

From the AFIO website:

• The Honorable George H. W. Bush, Chairman
• The Hon. Shirley Temple Black, actress; wife of Charles Alden Black
• The Hon. Frank C. Carlucci
• Lincoln D. Faurer, Lt. Gen. USAF(Ret)
• Bobby Ray Inman, Adm. USN (Ret)
• Milton S. Maltz, founder of the International Spy Museum
• Ernest R. May, Professor of History, Harvard University
• Maria L. Ransburg
• John Anson Smith
• The Hon. William H. Webster
• The Hon. R. James Woolsey

Other board members

• James Pavitt

Other members

• Ronald Carnaby, president of the William Francis Buckley chapter of the AFIO in Houston until his death on April 29, 2008.
• Glenmore Trenear-Harvey
• Agostino von Hassell
• Joseph Finder, author
• Jack G. Downing

External links

• http://afio.com/ AFIO website
• Association for Intelligence Officers at NNDB