Mark Mansfield, 48, who joined the Central Intelligence Agency in 1982 and is a career Agency officer, was named Director of Public Affairs by General Michael V. Hayden on 24 July 2006. He had been assigned since August 2005 to the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) , where he served as Director of Public Affairs. Before going to NCTC, Mansfield was CIA's Director of Public Affairs, appointed by then Acting Director of Central Intelligence John McLaughlin and serving in that capacity from August 2004 until October 2004. Prior to that, he served as Deputy Director of Public Affairs at CIA from August 1997 until July 2004. Mansfield has held a variety of positions in CIA's Public Affairs Office under seven Directors of Central Intelligence. He was a speechwriter for former DCI William Webster (1987-89), a CIA spokesman (1989-92 and 1994-96) and Chief of Media Relations (1997). In 1992-93, he supervised an analytical branch in the Directorate of Intelligence and in 1993-94 he served as the editor of the Agency's internal newsletter. He began his career as an editor with what was then the Foreign Broadcast Information Service. A native of northern New Jersey, Mansfield received a B.A. in Political Science from Rutgers College (1980) and an M.S.J. from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism (1982). He lives in northern Virginia and has a grown daughter.
