I'm 53 years old and was born in Reston, Virginia to a coal mining family.
I grew up in poverty to depression-era parents. We didn't have much and father was a stern task-master. My parents were from the "old-country" and definitely brought with them the old ways of raising children. We did learn valuable lessons from that upbringing.

I joined the military soon after graduating in telecommunications from New York Institute of Technology. My dad was proud of me (as the men in my family were mostly soldiers as far back as we knew). I went to the language school in Monterrey, Ca. as part of my special -ops training. There I learned Russian, later to be used when I was an interrogator at check-point Charlie in Germany. The stress was really high there and I developed ulcerative colitis, ultimately resulting in a colostomy. This did entitle me to a permanent military disability. Based in Frankfort, I traveled Europe for years and lived in Budapest, Moscow and Samarkand, Uzbekistan for periods of time. During the Kuwait Operation I did a small stint as a "contractor" to the federal government in a non-operational capacity (14mb download video of me with Taliban). Several years later I ran a "Surveillance Shop" in Maryland, primarily to serve various agency ops.

Upon the dissolution of the USSR (early-90's), I was hired at NTV (Russia's independent TV network) through a connection with a colleague in Budapest. There I met my wife Karen. She is the daughter of a ex-party official who now works in an advisory capacity with one of our lesser known federal agencies. She holds an advanced degree in organic biochemistry from the Nesmeyanov Institute and speaks five languages including farsi. She is smart as a whip, eloquent as a foreign ambassador and tough as nails...a typical russian!

We are childless which gives us the freedom to apply ourselves to any project we choose.
We support the president and are staunch Republicans. We feel that it is up to every person to pull their own weight. Our country and democracy gives us the opportunity to be the best we can be. We also feel that without the Lord, you are lost and can never live in peace. The rapture is soon to be upon us and we all need to be right with the Lord (be right or be left!).

God bless and please email me with any questions you may have about interrogation techniques, data mining, electronic surveillance, internet data corruption, martial arts, counter insurgency and tactical biological protocol.

We now live in our new location outside Hot Springs , Arkansas. We call it the "Compound" as it was custom designed by us using some of the original Stasi designs for safe-houses in East Germany. We are happy and safe here in the Ouachita mountains. Do call before visiting!