Richard S. Relac
Mr. Relac was trained in German as an enlisted member of the U.S. Army, and served as a military linguist and intelligence collector in West Berlin in the early 1960's. After military service, Mr. Relac earned a BA in Russian, with additional courses in French, at the George Washington University in Washington, DC.
While still an undergraduate at GWU, Mr. Relac worked as an editor and translator for a publisher of science journals in Washington, and become the staff translator for the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory from 1967 to 1974. Working directly with Navy scientists, he translated technical articles and papers from Russian, German and French in various aspects of the physical sciences such as fire suppression, laser development, metallurgy, nuclear power, oceanography, sea-floor geology, solar physics and underwater acoustics.
After a 9-year break to work in private business, Mr. Relac returned to Federal service in 1983 with an agency of the Department of Defense, where he became an intelligence analyst and reporter, a writer and editor of daily intelligence summaries for U.S. officials, and eventually a senior reports editor. He worked in areas such as nuclear armament and proliferation, advanced weapons and technology, political unrest and instabilities, armed insurgencies and regional conflicts, and international trafficking in weapons and other contraband. He retired with almost 30 years of Federal service.
In addition to his Federal career, Mr. Relac also has more than 10 years of private-sector experience including business management and ownership.
