Frederick P. Hitz is the author of The Great Game: the Myth and Reality of Espionage and Why Spy? Espionage in an Era of Uncertainty, the latter published in April 2008. Hitz has served extensively in the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, including in the CIA’s clandestine service, as legislative counsel to the director of Central Intelligence, and as deputy director for Europe in the Directorate of Operations. Hitz was appointed the first statutory inspector general of the CIA by President George H.W. Bush, and he served in that capacity from 1990-1998 when he retired. He was awarded the Distinguished Intelligence Medal by the director of Central Intelligence in 1998 and received a Resolution of Commendation from the U.S. Senate upon the fifth anniversary of his tenure as CIA inspector general in 1995. Among the many investigations he led at the CIA was the Aldrich Ames betrayal. Since 1998 he has been lecturing at the Woodrow Wilson School of Princeton University and at the University of Virginia School of Law and Department of Politics, and he is now a senior fellow at the University of Virginia’s Center for National Security Law.