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Born , in FL; married. Education: Franklin and Marshall College, B. Soviet history. Agent— Greater Talent Network, Inc. Weapons inspector, writer, and lecturer. Military service: U. Marine Corps; attained rank of major. Born into a military family in Florida in , Ritter grew up at postings around the world. After earning a bachelor's degree in Soviet history, he joined the armed forces, working in military intelligence in the USSR, where he met his wife.

Between and , when he resigned, Ritter participated in fifty-two inspection missions, heading fourteen of those.

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In , he and his team were responsible for tracking down missile guidance systems in Iraq purchased from Russia via a Palestinian intermediary. Three years later Ritter and his team were denied entrance to sensitive sites; the Iraqis accused him of being a U. After months of repeatedly being denied access, and feeling that he lacked the support of the U.

State Department or the United Nations, Ritter publicly resigned his position, indicating that weapons inspection in Iraq was more illusion than reality. Thereafter, Ritter began lecturing and writing about the situation in Iraq. In Endgame he writes of his experiences as a weapons inspector in Iraq, detailing the history of the Hussein regime and arguing for a Marshall Plan -style solution to the Iraq problem in which mutual cooperation might replace open antagonism between that country and the international community.