A GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING FOR CEOs
By HERBERT MEYER
This is a paper presented several weeks ago by Herb Meyer at a Davos,
Switzerland meeting which was attended by most of the CEOs from all the
major international corporations — a very good summary of today’s key
trends and a perspective one seldom sees. Herbert E.
Meyer served during the Reagan Administration as Special Assistant to the
Director of Central Intelligence and Vice Chairman of the CIA’s National
Intelligence Council. In these positions, he managed production of the U.S.
National Intelligence Estimates and other top- secret projections for the
President and his national security advisers.
Meyer is widely credited with being the first senior U.S. Government
official to forecast the Soviet Union’s collapse, for which he later was
awarded the U.S. National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medal, the
intelligence community’s highest honor.
Formerly an associate editor of FORTUNE, he is also the author of several
books.
