Barton Whaley received his bachelor of arts in Chinese studies from the University of California, Berkeley before serving with the intelligence section of U.S. Army Psychological Warfare headquartered in Tokyo during the Korean War. Following the war, he attended London University School of Oriental and African Studies before receiving his PhD at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was affiliated with the Department of Defense Analysis at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, and worked for the director of National Security�s Foreign Denial and Deception Committee of the Director of National Intelligence. He passed away in 2013.