EDWARD LOUIS ULLMAN
Edward was born amidst the city of Chicago and he grew up both within the US and in foreign countries due to the Ullman family’s travels. The University of Chicago and Harvard both provided degrees to him before he subsequently joined the US Naval Reserve. Amidst nineteen forty-two Edward joined the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) to lead its Transport Section. During WWII and beyond he served the US military’s leadership in the role of Joint Intelligence Study Publishing Board executive secretary. Lieutenant Ullman managed some document classification requirements for the Joint Army Navy Intelligence Studies (JANIS) and oversaw related matters. Amid nineteen forty six his board was reassigned from the Joint Chiefs of Staff to the Central Intelligence Group (CIG), a predecessor organization to the CIA.

By the early nineteen fifties Ullman became a geography professor at the University of Washington and was already teaching for years at his alma mater Harvard. Amidst nineteen fifty-eight he was one of several Agency personnel suggested to undertake a trip for exchanging geographic intelligence with Soviet academic experts. Edward was a visiting professor at several domestic and foreign universities that included a stop at the University of Moscow amid the nineteen sixties. Subsequently he expanded his academic credentials and published his third book, received appointments to several professional societies, and the next decade Ullman made a trip to Israel’s Haifa University. He was serving on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission during nineteen seventy-five and one year later Edward received a presidential appointment to Amtrack’s Board of Directors.

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