User:Alice Wiley/Charles Wiley Journalist

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Charles Wiley has lectured in 50 states and on five continents - 3000 talks - including speaking at hundreds of schools.

A well known radio/TV talk show personality and commentator, he's appeared on hundreds of network and local programs - including many times on CNN Crossfire and C-Span.

As a journalist, Wiley has reported from 100 countries. He covered

11 wars, including reporting for NBC, UPI, the London Express

and numerous other U.S. and foreign news media.

A New York University graduate, his freelance articles and photographs appeared in numerous publications, including the New York Times, U.S. News & World Report, Newsweek and Time.

Wiley's in-depth search for facts led to his arrest eight times by secret

police, including the KGB, and imprisonment in a Cuban dungeon

while he was a correspondent for New York City radio station WOR.

Wiley has lectured throughout the world - including talks in Germany,

Australia, South Africa, Taiwan, Luxembourg Thailand, Belarus, Namibia and Albania. He lived briefly in the Soviet Union while giving talks at Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) University. Wiley lectured, and resided on campus, in China (Jinan University, Guangzhou), Russia (Moscow State University) and elsewhere abroad. His most recent overseas talks were at two Moscow universities, an international symposium and to the staff of a major publication.

He contributed to establishing guidelines for a free press in Mongolia, was a speaker for the White House Public Outreach Group and has spoken abroad under the auspices of the U.S. government. Wiley has played a major role at international conferences in Great Britain and Italy. He lectured at the Ministry of Civil Defence Academy in New Zealand and at London University to the Institute of Civil Defense. Wiley speaks, every year, at dozens of colleges, high schools and other youth audiences throughout the country. Included are annual talks at UC Berkeley to the biggest political science class (700-800) in the USA. He's spent thousands of hours exchanging thoughts with young Americans. He can also compare his experiences at schools abroad.

He's taught a life-style seminar at five colleges.

Wiley frequently addresses military audiences - in the USA and abroad – including the Naval War College, the Defense Intelligence Agency school, an Air Force school for its top NCO’s, the Navy Postgraduate School, the Coast Guard Academy, CincPac, the UK intelligence school, the Spanish Army War School and many others. He lectured at the Imperial War Museum in Duxford.

Wiley was the keynote speaker at a two-day Washington conference on homeland security -- organized by Jane's, the premier international authority on defense, strategy & intelligence issues.

He went into Afghanistan, with the mujehdeen, during the war against the Soviet Union. Later, while in Kosovo, his visits to troops from many nations included the Russian 13th Tactical Group. Wiley had a very successful 13 year show business career. ******************************* Wiley covered the Vietnam war in 1962, 1964, 1968 (the Tet Truce offensive) and 1972 (the Easter offensive). Among his experiences: Logging five combat missions with the Vietnamese Air Force and flying, at treetop level, into a besieged Hue, during the war's biggest battle. He has returned to Vietnam, north & south, and Cambodia, since the conflict. Wiley knew many of the key players. During critical periods, he had long one-on-one interview/briefings with General Westmoreland, Presidents Diem and Thieu, Marshal Ky and other top figures. He learned much about the Vietnam war during his many extensive trips to China, Russia and the former Soviet empire. Wiley’s extensive knowledge about the home front during the conflict is based on vast personal experience with leaders and rank & file from both camps: those supporting the American involvement and those in the anti-war movement. He was at numerous college teach-ins during continuous travel in the United States. ******************************* Soon after Pearl Harbor, at age 15, Wiley joined the USO and entertained at bases throughout the United States for a year. At 17, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy. His service included duty with the amphibious corps in the Pacific and a brief tour with naval intelligence. He received a battle star for Okinawa and, at end of the war, was among the very first to occupy Japan. Wiley later helped evacuate the natives from Bikini before the atom bomb tests. He has studied WWII for over a half century. His research

has taken him to hundreds of battlefields, archives, museums, etc. all over the world - from Hiroshima & Nagasaki to Telemark, Norway (where Hitler tried to develop an atom bomb); from Stalingrad to Cassino. Wiley has talked to thousands who were involved - from average folks to generals and admirals.