Born in 1943, Mr. Broman is the son of a career US Air Force officer who was a glider pilot in the Second World War. He attended a boy’s prep school in England 1954-58 when his father was assigned to RAF Manston air base on the English Channel. He received an academic scholarship to the University of Illinois in 1961 but gave up the scholarship a year later to accompany his father to Thailand who was assigned as a civil engineer advisor to the Royal Thai Air Force.

In Bangkok in 1962, Mr. Broman worked as a photographer for the Associated Press in Thailand, South Vietnam, and Cambodia. A year later he attended the University of Washington where he received a BA in Political Science in 1967 and an MA in Southeast Asian Studies in 1968. While in college he enrolled in the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps and was commissioned in the reserve of the United States Marine Corps in 1967.

Mr. Broman went on active duty in 1968 and in 1969 served as an infantry officer in Vietnam with the 5th Marine regiment in combat. He also served as a Civil Affairs officer in Vietnam and extended his tour to serve as a liaison officer in Thailand. In 1970 Mr. Broman was assigned as Press Officer at Camp Pendleton, California. When he was promoted to captain he was given command of Company H, 7th Marine Regiment.

When his military commitment ended in 1971 Mr. Broman joined the Clandestine Service of the Central Intelligence Agency where he served for 25 years on three continents. He was twice chief of station, one deputy chief of station, and once ran a large paramilitary project in Asia. He received numerous decorations and citations while on government service He retired in 1996.

That year he formed Raintree and for the next quarter century was involved in business projects in Asia, published more than sixteen books including two memoirs, “Risk Taker, Spy Maker: Tales of a CIA Case Officer” and “Indochina Hand” and a novel “The Spy From Place Saint-Sulpice. He produced nine documentary films including “Burma: A Human Tragedy” which was narrated by Angelica Huston. He is married with two sons and resides in Kirkland, Washington.

Barry Broman worked as a photographer for the Associated Press in Southeast Asia as a teenager.  After graduating from the University of Washington with a BA in Political Science and an MA in Southeast Asian Studies he served as an infantry officer in the Marine Corps in Vietnam.  In 1971 he joined the Clandestine Service of the CIA and served as an operations officer around the world for a quarter of a century.  He was a “head hunter” with dozens of recruitments, mostly in Southeast Asia.  After he retired from government service he formed a consulting company, wrote seventeen books including two memoirs and two novels, and produced nine documentary films.  He lives with his wife BJ in Kirkland, Washington.