Gregg, Donald P.
DONALD PHINNEY GREGG served in the Army 1945–47, graduated, cum laude, from Williams College 1951, and joined the CIA as a paramilitary officer. Following his service in Korea as chief of station, he was seconded to the NSC staff at the White House in 1979. He then served as national security adviser to Vice President Bush until going to Korea as ambassador in 1989. Gregg later ran the nonprofit Korea Society in New York (1993–2009) and now chairs the Pacific Century Institute in Los Angeles. He lives in Armonk, New York, with his wife of sixty years, Meg Curry Gregg.
Don Gregg spent thirty-one years as an operations officer in CIA and ten years in the White House under Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, and George H. W. Bush. Pot Shards is his memoir. It tells of a philosophy graduate in 1951 who immediately joined the CIA when told, “You’ll jump out of airplanes and save the world!” His book is a window...