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Bart Whaley

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Bart Whaley
BornBarton Stewart Whaley
May 26, 1928
San Francisco, California
DiedAugust 3, 2013 (age 85)
CategoriesBooks by Bart Whaley

Dr. Bart Whaley (1928-2013) was a military intelligencer, historian, and amateur student of magic.[1]

Biography

Bart Whaley graduated with a BA in Chinese Studies from University of California, Berkeley in 1951. He served in the US Army Psychological Warfare Intelligence unit headquartered in Tokyo during the Korean War. After the war, he attended London University School of Oriental and African Studies on the GI Bill then received his Doctorate in strategic deception analysis at MIT in 1969.

He was member of the Magic Castle and the International Brotherhood of Magicians.

Dr. Whaley co-designed and managed, starting in the 1960s, several senior and mid-level political-military and counter-terrorist simulations.

He was later a research professor at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California.[2]

Books

References

  1. http://forums.geniimagazine.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=42788
  2. http://www.lybrary.com/barton-whaley-m-191.html