Loch K. Johnson

Loch K. Johnson is Regents Professor Emeritus of International Affairs, University of Georgia. His books include National Security Intelligence (Polity, 2024); The Third Option: Covert Action and American Foreign Policy (Oxford, 2024); and Intelligence: The Secret World of Spies, with James J. Wirtz (Oxford, 2023). He assisted the chairmen of the Church Committee on Intelligence and the Aspin-Brown Commission on Intelligence. In 2012, the Southeast Conference selected him as its inaugural "Professor of the Year." At the University of Georgia, he led the founding of the School of Public and International Affairs and is a recipient of its Presidential Medal.