"I've discovered a neglected, shadowy dimension of history in intelligence records at the National Archives. I want to make history come alive like historian Peter Fleming..." [Ian's brother] As a child during the Cold War, Jamie Bisher cultivated penpals in Russia, finagled visits to the Soviet Embassy in Washington and saved his meager earnings from after-school jobs to trek to the May Day parade in communist East Berlin. His rich job experiences--7/11 clerk on the 11pm-7am "robbery shift," leafleteer for a liberal congressman, chauffeur for the Lebanese Embassy, desk clerk at the Watergate, "Beltway Bandit" analyst and a long gig on the shadiest side of "human intelligence operations"--belie hard-earned academic credentials: a degree from the United States Air Force Academy, a graduate certificate in linguistics from American University, and a master's degree in international management from the University of Maryland. He works on international projects for a defense electronics firm. He has published more than 30 non-fiction articles in magazines, journals and newspapers in the U.S., U.K., Canada, Belize, Japan, Russia and Mexico on intelligence history, military and naval history, travel, animals and other topics.             

Published 'Japanese War Fantasy 1933,' Schiffer Books, 2023

Published 'Colonel Babcock's Moroccan Witchcraft Report,' KDP, 2020

Published 'Intelligence War in Latin America, 1914-1922,' McFarland Publishing, 2016

Published 'White Terror: Cossack Warlords of the Trans-Siberian,' Taylor & Francis, 2005

Member: National Cryptologic Museum Foundation, Association of Former Intelligence Officers, Air Force Academy Association of Graduates, American Legion