ANNUAL REPORT

dkrause on DSKHT7XVN1PROD with USCC
534
him to Thailand, where as a signals intelligence collector he focused
on Chinese military communications in Vietnam and Laos.
Within three years, he had graduated from the Infantry Officer
Candidate School and the Airborne and Ranger schools.
After four years as an infantry officer, Commissioner Wortzel
shifted back to military intelligence. Commissioner Wortzel traveled
regularly throughout Asia while serving in the U.S. Pacific
Command’s intelligence center from 1978 to 1982. The following
year, he attended the National University of Singapore, where he
studied advanced Chinese and traveled in China and Southeast
Asia. He next worked for the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy,
developing counterintelligence programs to protect emerging defense
technologies from foreign espionage. Also, the Commissioner
was active in programs to gather foreign intelligence for the Army
Intelligence and Security Command.
From 1988 to 1990, Commissioner Wortzel was the Assistant
Army Attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, China. After assignments
on the Department of the Army staff, he returned to China
in 1995 as the army attaché. In these assignments he represented
U.S. defense interests in China and traveled around the country
observing and reporting on military and political events for the
U.S. government.
In December 1997, Commissioner Wortzel joined the faculty of
the U.S. Army War College as Director of the Strategic Studies Institute.
Concurrently he was professor of Asian studies. He retired
from the U.S. Army as a colonel at the end of 1999. After his military
retirement, Commissioner Wortzel was director of the Asian
Studies Center at The Heritage Foundation and also vice president
for foreign policy and defense studies at Heritage.
Commissioner Wortzel has written or edited ten books on China,
including Class in China: Stratification in a Classless Society; China’s
Military Modernization: International Implications; Dictionary
of Contemporary Chinese Military History; and The Dragon Extends
its Reach: Chinese Military Power Goes Global.
A graduate of the U.S. Army War College, Commissioner Wortzel
earned his Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Hawaii-Manoa.
He and his wife live in Williamsburg, Virginia.
Michael R. Danis, Executive Director
Formerly served as a senior intelligence officer with the Defense
Intelligence Agency. Mr. Danis managed the agency’s technology
transfer division; the U.S. government’s sole analytical entity
tasked with producing intelligence assessments regarding all aspects
of foreign acquisition of U.S. controlled technology and hightech
corporations. He also established and led a unique team of
China technology specialists producing assessments on China’s
military-industrial complex, and the impact of U.S. export-controlled
and other foreign technology on Chinese weapons development
programs. While serving in the U.S. Air Force, Mr. Danis was
twice temporarily assigned to the office of the defense attaché in
Beijing.
VerDate Sep 11 2014 12:36 Nov 02, 2016 Jkt 020587 PO 00000 Frm 00060 Fmt 6601 Sfmt 6601 G:\GSDD\USCC\2016\FINAL\11_C4_B_M.XXX 11_C4_B_M