Saturday, July 16, 2005
Via Deadline Live forums Thu Jul 14, 2005: http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/chief_officers.shtml
Early in his career, he was with the CIA, where he served as Manager of Intelligence Operations and then as Executive Assistant to the Director.
Robert Kiley is a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Board Member of the Salzburg International Seminar, the American Repertory Theater, MONY Group Inc, the Princeton Review Inc and Edison Schools, Inc. He is also on the Advisory Board of the Harvard University Center for State and Local Government. Bob Kiley: Going Underground http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1113837.stm Although former colleagues insist that he is not a "spook", Kiley travelled the world in the 1960s fighting communism and spying on radical students before settling down as the executive assistant to that most frigid of all Cold War warriors, the director of central intelligence, Richard Helms.
He left the CIA in 1970 and went into management. Then tragedy struck. His first wife and two children died in a car crash. His father died two months later and Bob Kiley threw himself in to his work.
The results were spectacular. Following a successful stint running Boston's subway in the 1970s, the '80s saw him transforming the Big Apple's metro system. .....---
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