Donald Gregg

Career Gregg joined the Central Intelligence Agency in 1951. He served in Japan from 1964 to 1973. Gregg served as CIA station chief in South Korea from 1973 to 1975, an assignment he personally requested.

In 1989, Japan expert and lobbyist Craig J. Spence was linked to a White House guard who allowed him to take late-night White House tours with guests that included callboys. Spence suggested that these "midnight tours" were arranged by "top level" persons, implicating Gregg. Gregg denied the allegations, calling them "absolute bull." Henry Vinson, the convicted operator of a DC-area gay escort service, has confirmed that Gregg solicited male escorts with his government-issued MasterCard during his time as NSC advisor.

Maxwell School at Syracuse University Gregg, while at the Korea Society during President George W. Bush's administration, helped establish a program "of bringing North Koreans for information technology training and other issues" to Maxwell. Following a North Korean nuclear agreement with the United States in February 2012, North Korea's vice foreign minister and envoy to nuclear disarmament negotiations Ri Yong Ho reportedly planned to attend a forum at Maxwell. Gregg also appeared on PBS News Hour to discuss the agreement with Balbina Hwang, visiting professor at Georgetown University and a Korea specialist at the State Department during the last Bush administration.

In September 2009, Gregg retired to the role of chairman emeritus of The Korea Society and was replaced as chairman by Thomas C. Hubbard. In 2014, Gregg published Pot Shards: Fragments of a Life Lived in CIA, the White House, and the Two Koreas , a memoir.

Awards National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medal Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service