NCICA Chairman's Commentary

NCICA Conventions provide opportunities to share with people who have the same interests in Military Intelligence and Counter Intelligence as former members of America’s Secret Army. Another point in attending NCICA conventions is that it provides an incentive to travel to various geographic and historic points of interest in the United States. Our members that do attend span more than a half century as short time and career agents that, like all of us, recognize the kinship we share. From former officers to the grunt, there is no rank and no distinction - we are what we are, people who worked silently and unrecognized to insure the safety of this country. Brothers all.  Last year we enjoyed the hospitality of Kansas City, Missouri where we toured the WWI Museum, the Truman Library and enjoyed an address by the Library Head whose summary of Truman’s life and legends touched everyone in the audience.

This year we have been fortunate to have as President, John Knobloch- based in Minnesota and Florida- who has made all arrangements for our 2011 NCICA Convention  in St. Paul/Bloomington, Minnesota,  the dates for which are:  September 15  (Thursday) through   September 18 (Sunday).  John has given iron clad assurances that the weather will be great (no dog sleds needed).   President Knobloch  has also arranged for a Banquet Speaker  who  “fits” into our type of military background. Dr. Joe Fitzharris, Professor of History at the University of St. Thomas, exceeded his expectations and whose expertise is the American Civil War.  His topic will be “Espionage, Sabotage, and Insurgency in the American Civil War.”  For more extensive information , John’s bio . can be found under President’s Profile, his convention descriptive in President’s Message and  in an Update  found in NCICA News Items  ( which includes additional information on Dr. Joe Fitzharris, our Banquet Speaker).

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