About the Authors

Joe Keogh is a 30-year veteran of the Central Intelligence Agency, where he spent his career primarily in leadership roles for organizations that created pioneering mission impact in multi-int collection, cyber operations, clandestine technical collection and technical support to humint operations. He was selected as a White House executive exchange fellow, and was a member of the Senior Intelligence Service. He also served as a senior faculty member at the CIA espionage academy, focused on creating solutions to emergent training needs in the immediate aftermath of 9-11.

During his career he served in the Directorate of Science and Technology, the Directorate of Operations, and the Directorate of Administration. He created and sponsored the first-ever Intelligence Community Innovation Seminar, open to all Intelligence Community members, and intended to broaden and deepen interest and expertise in this crucial leadership issue.

He received a B.S. degree from Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA as a Distinguished Military Graduate, an MBA from George Mason University in Fairfax, VA, and a Doctorate degree in Organic Chemistry from the University of Colorado in Boulder, CO. His executive education includes the Harvard University Senior Managers in Government and the Duke University Fuqua School of Business. 

Before his CIA career, he established and led the Chemistry Department at the American Medical Center (a cancer hospital and research center) in Denver Colorado. He also served as a reserve intelligence officer in the US Army.

  Joe joined the Agency mid-career, serving in both the Directorate of Science and Technology as a member of the Senior Scientist cadre, and in the Directorate of Operations as a chief of station. His work in research and development guided a number of the technical collection systems developed by the Agency. He was also influential in mentoring many younger technologists working in the Agency.

Prior to his career at CIA, he served as a platoon leader in the Army. After leaving military service, he earned a Ph.D. in physics from Princeton, and served on the faculties of Colorado College, Bryn Mawr, Montana State University, and the University of Venezuela.  He was fluent in Spanish, French, German and Russian, and had a working knowledge of Chinese and Arabic.

He was also an avid mountain climber and a member of the team that did the first winter ascent of Zoroaster Temple in the Grand Canyon.

After retiring from the Agency, he continued to work as a consultant for a number of years. He passed away in 2021.

Greg Moore is a 25-year veteran of the Central Intelligence Agency where he spent his government career developing devices and concepts for use in Agency operations.  He is a former Chief Scientist of the Agency’s research office and a former Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Intelligence Community Research and Development.

Prior to his government career, he held positions as an industrial research scientist with Masonite Corporation in Chicago, Illinois and as an assistant professor at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia.

He holds BS, MS, and PhD degrees from The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, and a Master of Engineering Science degree from Loyola University, Baltimore, Maryland.

His prior books include: Properties and Processing of Polymers for Engineers (with D.E. Kline), Failing Forward Fast: What 25 Years in the CIA Taught Us about Getting Things Done in Bureaucracies (first and second editions with B.M. Hartmann), What Do We Know and How Do We Know It? and Self-Sabotage: Decisions and Behaviors that Corrode Our Lives.