Frank Snepp, Date of Birth

Frank Snepp

American journalist

Date of Birth: 03-May-1943

Profession: journalist, intelligence analyst

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Frank Warren Snepp, III (born May 3, 1943) is a journalist and former chief analyst of North Vietnamese strategy for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in Saigon during the Vietnam War.
For five out of his eight years as a CIA officer, he worked as interrogator, agent debriefer, and chief strategy analyst in the United States Embassy, Saigon; he was awarded the Intelligence Medal of Merit for his work.
Snepp is currently a producer for KNBC-TV in Los Angeles, California.
He was one of the first whistle blowers who revealed the inner workings, secrets and failures of the national security services in the 1970s.
As a result of a loss in a 1980 court case brought by the CIA, all of Snepp's publications require prior approval by the CIA.