ODNI News Release No. 2-06

Joseph DeTrani
Mission Manager for North Korea

Ambassador DeTrani is responsible for integrating collection and analysis on North Korea across the Intelligence Community, identifying and filling gaps in intelligence, and planning and ensuring the implementation of strategies, among other duties.  DeTrani comes to the ODNI after a distinguished career in government.  Most recently he served as Special Envoy for the Six-Party Talks with the rank of ambassador.  Before joining the Department of State he served as a U.S. Air Force officer, worked in the private sector as an economist, and was an economic analyst at the CIA.  After serving as the Executive Assistant to the Director of Central Intelligence, DeTrani was the Director of European Operations, Director of Technical Services, Director of Public Affairs, Director of the Crime and Narcotics Center, and Director of East Asia Operations.  He spent a number of years living in East Asia and the Middle East.  Ambassador DeTrani speaks Chinese and French.  He received his bachelor’s degree from New York University, attended the New York University School of Law and the New York Graduate School of Business Administration.

Ms. S. Leslie Ireland
Mission Manager for Iran

Ms. Ireland is responsible for integrating collection and analysis on Iran across the Intelligence Community, identifying and filling gaps in intelligence, and planning and ensuring the implementation of strategies, among other duties.  Ms. Ireland is a career intelligence officer and Middle East specialist.  During a career that spanned over 20 years, she held a variety of positions in the analytical, collection, interagency and policy communities, giving her a corporate perspective in addition to substantive expertise.  Most recently she served as Executive Assistant to the Director of the CIA, Porter Goss.  Previously she served as Executive Assistant to the Deputy Director of Central Intelligence, Deputy Chief for Arab-Israeli Issues at CIA, Special Advisor for Iran Collection Issues, and Country Director for Iran and Kuwait in the Office of the Secretary of Defense.  She has traveled extensively in the Middle East and is a recipient of CIA’s Intelligence Commendation Medal.  Ms. Ireland is a graduate of Franklin and Marshall College with a B.A. in Government and holds an M.A. in Russian Area Studies from Georgetown University.

William F. Dawson
Director of the Intelligence Community Acquisition Risk Center
Office of the Director of National Intelligence

As director of this newly established center Mr. Dawson is responsible for conducting multi-source threat analysis of commercial entities doing business with any component of the Intelligence Community.  Dawson served as the Deputy Intelligence Community Chief Information Officer from December 2001 until most recently.  In this position he was responsible for the overall formation and development of the Intelligence Community’s Information Technology Enterprise Architecture required to implement the Director of National Intelligence’s business directives.  In May 2004 Dawson was selected as the first Intelligence Community Special Assistant for Information Sharing and subsequently was appointed as the Director of the Community Interoperability and Information Sharing Office.  There he led the overall efforts to develop, implement, and deploy innovative policies and solutions for effective information sharing across the Intelligence Community as well the Intelligence Community’s partners and consumers.  Prior to returning to government service Dawson spent 18 years in the private sector where he was responsible for the design, development, and fielding of systems based on technologies including multi-level security, automated message handling, mission control, telecommunications, local area networking, and distributed information management.  He received his bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute and completed all requirements for an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Pennsylvania State University.

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Note – The role of the Mission Manager recommended by the WMD Commission and endorsed by the President is a new and important one.  The DNI created four Mission Managers: one for counterterrorism, the Director of the National Counterterrorism Center; one for counterproliferation, the Director of the National Counterproliferation Center; and one each for the countries of Iran and North Korea.  Mission Managers will not directly manage operations or analysis, but will instead lead the Intelligence Community at a strategic level.