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Making up for lost time over the past two years, we are pleased to announce our second meeting in the month of April. We hope you will be able to join us for this timely discussion.

Date: Tuesday, April 19, 2022

Social Hour: 6:00pm

Dinner: 6:45pm

Place: Wichita Country Club

Speaker: Dan Loftin

Topic: “The Realities of Dealing with Russia”

Wichita Committee member, Dan Loftin, is a retired CIA officer who focused primarily on countering the Soviet Union/Russia and former Warsaw Pact countries. He spent a large part of his career analyzing and countering Russian initiatives and ventures. His in-country experience included two years in Leningrad in the 1970s, at the height of the Cold War. He has also spent years in other overseas diplomatic and intelligence assignments from Latin America to Africa. In Washington, D.C., he engaged in inter-agency services including his selection as the first CIA Representative to General Colin Powell’s Joint Staff Pentagon as Associate Director of Operations of DIA’s new Defense HUMINT Service and as CIA Liaison with U.S. Military Special Operations. In recognition for his service, he received the CIA’s Distinguished Career Intelligence Medal and Donovan Award.

At a time when many of us are trying to make sense of Vladimir Putin’s aggression against Ukraine as well as earlier attacks against Crimea, Georgia and Moldova, a free-flowing discussion of Putin’s motivation and end game should prove thought-provoking.

Should you have any questions, please contact John Dreifort by email: john.dreifort@wichita.edu

Distinguished Advisory Committee

Senator Nancy Kassebaum Baker
Ambassador Sam Brownback
The Honorable Dan Glickman
Secreteary of State Mike Pompeo
Senator Pat Roberts

WCFR Executive Committee

Scott Colby
George Dehner
John Dreifort
Kathy Frieze
Dan Rouser
Dick Skibba
Keith Stevens