DAVID ROBARGE
David Robarge earned a Master's degree in American history from George Mason University and a Ph.D. in
American History from Columbia University. After holding teaching fellowships at Columbia, and working
as a historical researcher on the staff of banker David Rockefeller and at the Gannett Center for Media
Studies at Columbia, he joined the Central Intelligence Agency in 1989.
For the next several years he worked in the Counterterrorism Center and the Directorate of Intelligence
as a political and leadership analyst on the Palestinian and Iraq accounts. Dr. Robarge moved to the
CIA History Staff in 1996 and was appointed Chief Historian of the CIA in 2005.
Dr. Robarge has written many classified and unclassified historical publications dealing with Directors
of Central Intelligence, covert action, counterintelligence, and aerial reconnaissance. His articles
and book reviews have appeared in the CIA's in-house journal Studies in Intelligence, and in Intelligence
and National Security and the Journal of Intelligence History.
Dr. Robarge also has taught US intelligence history at George Mason University and has written a biography
of Chief Justice John Marshall.