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PHOENIX SOCIETY OUTREACH—Intelligence Community Events
by Judy Dye
The Phoenix Society, Inc. Outreach effort tries to help Phoenicians keep
in touch with other Intelligence Community organizations whose
mission or whose membership has some relationship to the Phoenix
Society, Inc.. Examples of organizations are: AFCEA (Armed Forces
Communications and Electronics Association); AFIO (Association of
Former Intelligence Officers); SASA (Security Affairs Support
Association); the retirement organizations of our foreign
counterparts; the US Naval Cryptologic Veterans Association; and
Freedom Through Vigilance Association (Air Force). The Phoenix
Society, Inc. participates in the Intelligence Community Associations
Network, an organization whose members represent organizations that
support the intelligence community or intelligence community
retirees. Membership in some of the organizations is open to current
and retired Agency employees (AFCEA, AFIO, and SASA.)
Each organization has educational and social events such as
seminars, luncheons, golf tournaments, and dinner dances throughout
the year. Some of the events are for members only but many are open
to the community. A large number are held in the Washington, DC
area. But some are held in other parts of the country that have
significant populations of active and retired military and civilian
Intel Community personnel. For example AFIO has chapters in New
England, Colorado, Florida and Texas. We post the announcements for
some of these events on the Phoenix Society, Inc. website.
Your Phoenix Society, Inc. Board of Directors has little insight into the
interest of Phoenicians in participating in Intel Community events.
Therefore, we request that you let us know what kind of Community
Outreach you would like the Phoenix Society, Inc. to pursue. E-mails can
be sent to:
outreach@thephoenixsociety.org Letters can be sent to the
Phoenix Society, Inc. Office. We look forward to hearing from you and will
report on what you tell us.
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Scholarship Opportunities College undergraduate and
graduate students selected to be Pat Roberts Intelligence Scholars
could receive as much as $50,000 in scholarship money. Roberts, a
Republican, represents Kansas in the Senate. The ROTC-style
program is the brainchild of Felix Moos, a Kansas University
professor of anthropology, and is part of an effort to attract
qualified candidates to the field of intelligence gathering,
especially in targeted areas of the world, including Afghanistan,
China, Korea and the Middle East. The program was suggested by Moos
to Roberts, who shepherded the measure through Congress, which
approved $4 million for the pilot project. After earning their
degrees, recipients are committed to working for the CIA for 18
months for each year of scholarship they receive. Candidates for the
scholarships may attend any institution and must be full-time
students, U.S. citizens, and pass the same security background
checks given to other CIA employees. They also must possess advanced
expertise in certain regions, languages or other disciplines. (DKR)
Apply for the Pat Roberts Scholarship here.
College/Graduate Students: Earn Up to $20,000 for Overseas Study --
David L. Boren Undergraduate Scholarships offer generous funding to
college students
wishing to spend a summer, semester, or academic year overseas in
areas of
the world deemed critical to US national security. US Citizens Only.
For
more information, please visit http://www.iie.org/nsep Information
regarding David L. Boren Graduate Fellowships can be found at
http://nsep.aed.org/
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