Terry Everett
| Robert Terry Everett | |
|---|---|
 |
|
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Alabama's 2nd district |
|
|
In office January 3, 1993 – January 3, 2009 |
|
| Preceded by | Bill Dickinson |
| Succeeded by | Bobby Bright |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
February 15, 1937 Dothan, Alabama |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Barbara Pitts Everett |
| Residence | Rehobeth, Alabama |
| Occupation | Journalist; Real estate executive |
| Religion | Baptist |
| Military service | |
| Service/branch | United States Air Force |
| Years of service | 1955–1959 |
Robert Terry Everett (born February 15, 1937) is an American politician and a Republican former member of the United States House of Representatives from Alabama's 2nd congressional district. He served from 1993 to his retirement in 2009. Everett was born on February 15, 1937, in Dothan, Alabama, the son of Bob and Thelma Everett. He lived and attended school in Midland City, Alabama.
On September 26, 2007, Everett announced his intention to retire at the end of the 110th Congress after the 2008 elections. He was succeeded by Bobby Bright, the first Democrat to represent the district since William Louis Dickinson won it during the Barry M. Goldwater landslide in Alabama in 1964.
Upon graduation from high school in 1955, Everett joined the U.S. Air Force and was assigned to the U.S. Air Force Security Service's 6901st Special Communication Group as an intelligence analyst from 1955 to 1959. He served as analyst for reconnaissance aircraft flights including the Lockheed U-2 which, as a congressman, he protected from defunding.
The USAFSS was essentially the United States Air Force's cryptographic intelligence branch; its motto was Freedom through Vigilance. It was created in October 1948 and operated until 1979, when the branch was re-designated the Electronic Security Command. It was later re-designated Air Force Intelligence Command, Air Intelligence Agency, and is currently called the Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Agency. Composed primarily of airmen culled from the cream of the Air Force's enlisted recruits (the top 1/2 of 1 percent), the USAFSS was a secretive and tight-knit branch of Air Force cold warriors tasked with monitoring, collecting and interpreting military voice and electronic signals of countries of interest (which often were Soviet and their satellite Eastern bloc countries). These jobs required top secret codeword clearance (the original "Q Clearance") and Everett received his Top Secret clearance on February 14, 1956. Later on December 15, 1958 he received a Crypto Codeword clearance. The information collected in the field was usually sent via encrypted land-line and radio systems to a co-located group of USAFSS analysts who would interpret the data, format reports and send them on to the National Security Agency or other recipients. The National Security Agency, created by President Harry Truman in December 1951, shared these reports with all the government agencies involved in intelligence including every branch of the Armed services, the FBI, the CIA, and others. Many feel that if this kind of inter agency cooperation had existed in 2000, the plans for the 9/11 attacks would have been detected and the attacks prevented.
...
Wikipedia