Dr. John Gentry (left) with IWP President Amb. Aldona Woś and Prof. Aaron DanisDr. John A. Gentry has joined the IWP faculty to teach our course on Surprise, Warning, and Deception (IWP 662). This course will be offered in the second session of the spring 2025 semester.
Dr. Gentry was for 12 years an intelligence analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency, where he mainly worked economic issues associated with the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact countries; for two of those years he was senior analyst on the staff of the National Intelligence Officer for Warning.
He is a retired U.S. Army Reserve officer, with most assignments in special operations and intelligence arenas.
He writes regularly on intelligence and security issues, including four books and about 40 articles and book chapters on intelligence topics. His most recent book is Diversity Dysfunction: The DEI Threat to National Security Intelligence (Academica Press, 2025). He received a Ph.D. in political science from The George Washington University.
The course that he will teach at IWP examines the problems of surprise, warning, and deception in the modern world with exclusive reference to state actors.
Surprise, Warning and Deception Course
Dr. Gentry discussing the politicization of U.S. intelligence at IWP in fall of 2023. Watch his remarks here