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PhotoFred Hitz is a Senior Fellow at the Center. Since 1998 he has been lecturing at the Woodrow Wilson School of Princeton University and at the University of Virginia School of Law. He also teaches courses at the Jefferson Institute of Lifelong Learning at the University of Virginia. A graduate of Harvard Law School, he entered the Career Training Program at the CIA and served in the clandestine service in Africa. In 1974, he returned to law practice but re-entered government service in congressional liaison capacities with the State, Defense, and Energy departments before resuming his career at the CIA in 1978 as Legislative Counsel to the Director of Central Intelligence. Hitz was responsible for managing the Agency's response to the Intelligence Charters legislation that came out of the Church Committee hearings in 1976. In 1980, he became Deputy Director for Europe in the Directorate of Operations. Hitz was appointed the first statutory Inspector General of CIA by President George H.W. Bush. He served in that capacity from 1990-1998 when he retired. Among the many investigations he led at the CIA was the Aldrich Ames betrayal. He has written extensively about espionage and intelligence issues including The Great Game: the Myths and Reality of Espionage (Knopf, 2004). Professor Hitz's fascinating new book Why Spy: Espionage in an Age of Uncertainty was published in 2008. View Professor Hitz's presentation "A Short History of the Business of Intelligence" delivered at the Miller Center in October 2008 (video).