Aftergood, Steven. "White House Names New PFIAB Members." Secrecy News (from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy), 31 Oct. 2005. [http://www.fas.org]One view of PFIAB: "The PFIAB, which was formalized as an advisory and oversight panel by President John F. Kennedy after the disaster at the Bay of Pigs, has had an up-and-down history. It frequently has been used as a prestige appointment for presidential friends." Walter Pincus, "Getting Smarter About Intelligence," Washington Post National Weekly Edition, 20-26 Jun. 1994, 33.
PFIAB has a Web site at: http://www.whitehouse.gov/pfiab/. A list of those who have chaired PFIAB is at: http://www.whitehouse.gov/pfiab/chairpersons.html.
Aftergood, Steven. "White House Names New PFIAB Members." Secrecy News (from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy), 31 Oct. 2005. [http://www.fas.org]
On 27 October 2005, President George W. Bush announced that "Stephen Friedman, an investment banker and a previous PFIAB member, will serve as the next PFIAB chairman." See the text of the White House Press Release and the full list of PFIAB members at http://www.fas.org/irp/news/2005/10/wh102705.html.
Anderson, Martin. Revolution.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988.
Petersen: "Reagan's domestic adviser's account covers the 1985 purge of the PFIAB."
Cherne, Leo. "Need
to Know." Journal of Defense and Diplomacy 4 (May 1986): 38-41.
PFIAB Vice Chairman at the time the article was written.
The Hale Foundation.
The President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (PFIAB). Washington,
DC: 1981. [Petersen]
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