Ambassador Hugh Montgomery, legendary OSS and CIA officer, was director of the Department of State's Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR) from 1981 through 1985.  

He was perhaps my most important mentor during my years in INR.  Few at CIA ever got to meet him, while I -- a 20-something kid -- got to chat with him regularly.   This photo  is from 1981... I was being presented with some sort of award for my work on what was then known as "Soviet active measures" -- at the time a brand new area for analytic investigation spurred by the 1979 defection to the US of KGB officer Stanislav Levchenko.   

There were many people at State and in the US intelligence community more generally during those years who were like Amb. Montgomery... men and women of integrity who were serious, respectable, and who had lived history.  It was an honor to have learned from and to have worked alongside such individuals. 

As for Hugh Montgomery... to say that those who followed in his footsteps to head INR were nothing like him would be vast understatement.