Townsend, Robert E.

Robert Townsend was born and raised on a farm in the rolling moraine hills of northern Wisconsin. After graduating from the University of Wisconsin in 1969 at the height of the Vietnam protests, Townsend flew 175 combat missions in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. In the 1980s, he became deputy chief, Air Force Intelligence Agency Counter Deception Directorate. He is among some of the few men in America familiar with the war of ruse and stratagem between the US and the USSR. Southern Slav on his mother's side, southern redneck on the paternal side, his parents managed money poorly, but told stories...