Hitz '61 to take year-long sabbatical at University of Virginia
Frederick Hitz '61, former inspector general of the Central Intelligence Agency, is wrapping up his six-year lecturer's term at the University with a rather surprising twist.Hitz had said he intended to spend his time at Princeton ? to which he will return after a year's sabbatical ? writing a book which analyzed the changes in intelligence agencies after the end of Cold War, when the intelligence community was preparing to face new, non-Soviet threats.Instead, the book Hitz wrote focuses not only on the gathering of secret information, as some might have assumed given his experience, but also touches on another topic of which he is a longtime devotee ? the spy novel.Hitz said he felt that "yet another book on intelligence reform would not be as original" as what he ultimately wrote.