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 U.S.

Government official to forecast the Soviet Union’s collapse, for which he was awarded the U.S.

National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medal, the Intelligence Community’s highest honor.

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