Join the Friends of SMU Libraries for the Annual Dinner featuring author David McCloskey

Damascus Station: Spy fiction, the CIA, and the Middle East

Bugatti Ristorante - 3802 W. Northwest Highway

$50 per person. RSVP Required. 

David McCloskey is a former CIA analyst and consultant at McKinsey & Company.

While at the CIA, he wrote regularly for the President’s Daily Brief, delivered classified testimony to Congressional oversight committees, and briefed senior White House officials, Ambassadors, military officials, and Arab royalty.

He worked in CIA field stations across the Middle East throughout the Arab Awakening and conducted a rotation in the Counterterrorism Center focused on the jihad in Syria and Iraq.

David holds an M.A. from the Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies. He lives in Texas with his wife and three children.