Milt Bearden

Milton Bearden a retired Central Intelligence Agency officer, author, film consultant, and third chair on the Dudley and Bob with Matt Morning Show. Bearden was President and CEO of the Asia-Africa Projects Group], a Washington, D.C.-based resource development and advisory services firm from 2010-2015. He has been an author and film consultant since 1998. As of 2016, Bearden lives in Austin, Texas with his French-born wife, Marie-Catherine, a professor at the University of Texas at Austin, and the President of Académie de l'étiquette, a protocol and etiquette consulting group 'http://www.academie-etiquette.com

Bearden was born in Oklahoma and spent his early years in Washington state, where his father worked on the Manhattan Project, and later moved with his family to Houston, Texas. After serving in the United States Air Force, he joined the CIA in 1964. Bearden is a member of the Yale Veterans Association and the University of Texas Exes.

During his 30-year career with the CIA Bearden was a station chief in Pakistan, Nigeria, Sudan and Germany. In Pakistan from 1986 to 1989, he became a CIA Field Officer in Afghanistan. He played a role in funding and training the mujahedeen to fight occupying Soviet forces.

Bearden appeared several times in the BBC Documentary by Adam Curtis called The Power of Nightmares where he talked of his involvement with the Mujahadeen, the Afghan Arabs and how he was assigned to the role by William Casey the then current Director of Central Intelligence. According to Bearden, Casey told him that Afghanistan seemed to be possibly one of the keys to winning. Casey said "'I want you to go to Afghanstian, I want you to go next month and I will give you what ever you need to win... He gave me the Stinger missiles and a billion dollars!"

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