Editorial Board-Staff

EDITORIAL BOARD OF DIRECTORS

The Board is responsible for all content on VT and participates in all major decisions regarding content, columnists, and editorial direction for VT

• Gordon Duff - Chairman, U.S. Marines, Vietnam, Managing Director, Adamus Defense Group,  Switzerland
• Lt. General Hamid Gul – Director General ISI (Former Chief of Intelligence Services, Pakistan)
• Col. Eugene Khrushchev - Former Soviet/Russian Airborne, Intelligence, PsyOps, First Secretary, Soviet and Russian Embassies, Kabul, Afghanistan, Director of Strategic Planning, Adamus Defense Group, Switzerland
• Jim W. Dean – Military Order of World Wars, Association for Intelligence Officers
• Gwenyth Todd - Former Head, White House National Security Council, Middle East Desk, Chief Political Advisor, US Navy 5th Fleet
• Leo Wanta – Former National Director of Intelligence under President Reagan and Inspector General, Department of Defense
• Clinton Bastin, WWII Marine Corps officer, 42 year veteran of the Atomic Engery Commission and Dept. of Energy, Lead Investigator, IAEA, chief nuclear weapons designer, DOE, world renowned expert on nuclear proliferation, past president of the 900,000 member Nuclear Workers Union, and VT’s in house nuclear expert.
• Jeff Rense - Radio host and investigative journalist (www.rense.com)
• Mike Harris – Financial Editor, radio host, former GOP Campaign Finance Chairman, Senior Vice President, Adamus Defense Group, Switzerland
• Carol Duff - RN, BA, MSN, Veteran’s Health Issues Editor
• Dr. James H. Fetzer,  McKnight Professor Emeritus, University of Minnesota Duluth, former Marine Corps officer
• Dr. Kevin Barrett, Specialist in Islamic Studies, Educator, Radio Host, Investigative Journalist
• Major Bobby Hanifin - US Air Force, Veterans Affairs Editor
• Khalil Nouri - Afghanistan Political Expert and Military Intelligence Specialist

OPERATIONS & MANAGING EDITORS

General Manager:  John P. Allen

Senior Managing Editor: Gordon Duff

Managing Editors: Managing Editors are responsible for general formatting and editing issues.  This group interacts with and serves our community of columnists/staff writers and reader/subscribers

• Yanira Farray
• Jim W. Dean

Comments Manager:  Billy Jackson

INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS / CORRESPONDENTS

Middle East:  Editor/Chief Correspondent:  Gwyneth Todd, former head, Middle East Desk, National Security Council, White House, Washington, Chief Consultant, Department of the Navy for Middle East Affairs U.S.

Lebanon/Syria:  Bureau Chief:  Dr. Franklin Lamb; former Assistant Counsel of the US House Judiciary Committee , Professor of International Law at Northwestern College, based in Beirut and Damascus.

Eqypt:  Bureau Chief:  Dr. Ashraf Ezzat MD, Adam Morrow, Khaled Moussa al-Omrani

State of Palestine:  Bureau Chief:  Sami Jadallah,  Ken O’Keefe,

Israel:  Bureau Chief: “Roi Tov,” IDF Officer (www.roytov.com) and Israeli dissident under sentence of death

Iran:  Bureau Chief:  Kourosh Ziabiari and Dr. Ismail Salmi (Press TV/Tehran Times)

Afghanistan :  Editor/Bureau Chief: Khalil Nouri, Fayaz Shah, Dr. Mohamed Miraki

Armenia:  Bureau Chief:  Harut Sassounian

Southeastern Europe:  Bureau Chief:  Sir Vojislav Milosevic, Director General, Center for Counter-Terrorism and World Peace

• Professor Andrija Slavik (Specialist on Diplomacy, War Plans and Psychological Warfare)
• Lt. General (Retd.) Banko Krga – Former Head of Military Intelligence and Deputy Chief of General Staff, Serbian Armed Forces
• Lt. General (Retd.) Satish Nambiar – Former Deputy Chief of Staff, Assistant Secretary General and Under Secretary General ,United Nations
• Vice Admiral Radomir Grujic, Fleet Commander, Serbian Naval Forces, Chief of Staff, War College of Serbia

Pakistan:  Bureau Chief and Regional Editor: Major Raja Mujtaba,

• Brigadier General Asif Haroon Raja (ret),
• Lt. General Hamid Gul, (Ret. former DG ISI),
• Admiral Iftikhar Ahmed Sirohey (Ret. Former Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff, Military of Pakistan)

Japan:  Bureau Chief Benjamin Fulford:  Published over 30 books, including best sellers, in Japanese. Before becoming freelance, his last corporate job was as the Asia Pacific Bureau Chief for Forbes Magazine.

France (Paris):  Bureau Chief: Jane Rosenstein,  Gennady & Lidiya Sevastyanov, Didier Lambert

United Kingdom:  Bureau Chief: Gilad Atzmon (author, musician), Alan Hart (ret. BBC Middle East Desk Chief), Stuart Littlewood, Michael Shrimpton (QC, Barrister, Intelligence Briefer to US/UK govts.)Harry Erivona (Barrister, Intelligence Analyst), Robbie “the Pict” (Rights Activist)

Canada:  Bureau Chief:  Josh Blakeney, Dr. Anthony Hill

Russia:  Editor/Bureau Chief:  Colonel Gene Khrushchev (ret. Airborne, Intelligence/Psyops, First Secretary Soviet and Russian Embassies in Afghanistan)

Southern Africa:  Bureau Chief: Baron Ricardo Baretzky (Director General, South African Counter Intelligence Agency and ECIPS/European Center for Information and Policy Security)

Nigeria:  Harry Erivona, Director, Adamus Security Group, CEO Hammond and Barkers, London

Austria:  Editor/Bureau Chief: Lee Wanta (White House Director of Intelligence, Inspector General, Department of Defense, US under President Reagan)

Germany:  Bureau Chief: F. William Engldahl

Italy:  Correspondent:  Daniela Giordano (former Miss Italy, film star and extensively published on science and “fringe” phenomena)

Brazil:  Correspondent:  Fancisca Helena Grunupp (Historian, literary translator)

New Zealand:  Correspondent:  Dr. Stuart Jeanne Bramhall (Psychiatrist (MD), Political Activist and Refugee)

Southeast Asia

Vietnam:  Bureau Chief: Chuck Palazzo USMC Force Reconnaissance

Thailand:  Bureau Chief: Dimitri Khalezov (formerly of Soviet 12th Nuclear Directorate)

US Army “Embed” Afghanistan: Tim King

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SPEAKERS BUREAU

• Alan Hart
• Bob Nichols
• Amb. Daniel Overmyer (deceased)
• Ralph W. Eckard (deceased)
• Maj. Dimitri Khalezov
• Dr. Ashraf Ezzat
• Dr. George Krasnow
• Dr. Franklin Lamb
• Lt. General Hamid Gul
• Gilad Atzmon
• Gordon Duff
• Gwyneth Todd
• J B Campbell
• Jim W. Dean
• Ken O’Keefe
• Khalil Nouri
• Joshua Blakeney
• Dr. Doug Rokke (Maj. US Army ret.)
• Phil Tourney
• Raja Mujtaba
• Robert Rosebrock
• Sibel Edmonds
• Sherwood Ross
• Susan Lindauer
• Sir. Vojislav Milosevic
• Michael Chester
• Baron Ricardo Baretzky
• Dr. Anthony Hill
• Hon. Michael Shrimpton
• Kouroush Ziabari
• Colonel Gene Khrushchev
• Amb. Leo Wanta
• Dr. Jim Fetzer
• Colonel James Hanke USA Special Forces (Director of Operations, Adamus Defense Group)
• Harut Sassounian
• Roi Tov
• Dr. Preston James

Radio Hosts

• Kevin Barrett
• Mike Harris
• John Stokes
• Jim Fetzer
• Allen Rolland
• Jeff Rense
• Clay Douglas

IN MEMORIAM

• Colonel David (“Hack”) Hackworth US Army Special Forces (WW2, Korean War, Vietnam)
• Colonel Ted Guy USAF (WW2, Korean War, Vietnam, POW)
• Sgt. Ralph W. Eckard (“Recon”) USMC Force Recon Vietnam (Editor and Staff Columnist)
• Steve Palmer (US Army, WW2)
• Vittorio Arrigoni – KIA- Gaza
• Mohamed “Mo” Nabbous – KIA – Benghazi
• Fr. Malachi Martin (Society of Jesus, former Vatican Secretary of State)
• Maya Naser, Press TV, KIA- Syria
• Pierre A. Rinfret US Army World War II (Economic Advisor to 3 Presidents)
• Captain/Ambassador Daniel Overmyer, US Army World War II
• Alynn Pike, wife of Reverend Ted Pike, National Prayer Network

Publishers

• The men and women of the clandestine and special operations services who value honor and human decency