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REAGAN INTEL EXPERT TO HIGHLIGHT THIRD ANNUAL LECTURE |
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January 13, 2009
GROVE CITY, Pa. – “We win, they lose”: four simple words that summed up Ronald Reagan’s strategy for the Cold War. On Feb. 5 at 7 p.m., Herb Meyer, the man credited as the first senior U.S. government official to forecast the Soviet Union’s collapse, will share just what those words meant at the third annual Ronald Reagan Lecture in Ketler Auditorium of the Pew Fine Arts Center on the Grove City College campus. The event is sponsored by The Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College.
The Ronald Reagan Lecture is held each year around Feb. 6, the anniversary of Ronald Reagan’s birth. The lecture series aims to bring to light Reagan’s contributions to America and the world. Each year, the Center hosts an individual who worked for, knew or has produced important work on the 40th President.
Meyer, who was Reagan’s special assistant to the Director of Central Intelligence and vice chairman of the Central Intelligence Agency’s National Intelligence Council, will share how Reagan’s policy turned decades of managing, not winning, the Cold War upside down through a town-hall discussion moderated by the Center’s Executive Director, Reagan biographer and Cold War historian Dr. Paul Kengor. The event will feature a question-and-answer session.
A central player in the economic-warfare “take-down” strategy to undermine the Soviet Union, Meyer managed production of the U.S. National Intelligence Estimates and other top-secret projections for Reagan and his senior national security advisers. An economist and Soviet specialist, Meyer was handpicked by CIA Director Bill Casey to serve as his aide.
In a November 1983 memo, Meyer forecast, correctly, what Reagan had been hoping and working toward: The Soviet Union was entering a “terminal phase” – a prediction that was met with considerable political derision at the time. Meyer was later awarded the National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medal, which is the intelligence community’s highest honor.
Prior to his service with the U.S. government, Meyer was an associate editor of “Fortune,” where he was among the magazine’s top international specialists. He is author of several books, including “Real-World Intelligence,” “The War Against Progress” and “Hard Thinking.” With his wife, Jill, he is co-author of “How to Write,” a handbook used widely at colleges throughout the world.
Meyer remains a top analyst on Russia, energy policy, and defense and foreign affairs. Meyer’s articles and essays on politics and the country’s intelligence service in the wake of Sept. 11 have been published in “The Wall Street Journal,” “National Review Online” and “Policy Review.” He is a frequent guest on leading television news programs.
Registration fees for the public are:
• $75, includes a pre-lecture reception, lecture, reception and book signing
• $20, includes lecture, reception and book signing
• $10 for non-Grove City College students, includes lecture and reception (college ID required)
To register, log on to www.grovecityconference.com/reagan, contact Brenda Vinton at (724) 450-1541 or mail registration fees to Brenda Vinton/Ronald Reagan Lecture, Grove City College, Box 3147, 200 Campus Dr., Grove City, PA 16127. Checks should be made out to The Center for Vision & Values
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