Mary Louise Kelly
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Mary Louise Kelly is National Public Radio's intelligence and security correspondent. Kelly reports on the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and other spy agencies, such as the Central Intelligence Agency, Defence Intelligence Agency, and the National Security Agency. She also covers the law-makers that oversee America's spies, including the Senate and House intelligence committees. Her brief is a broad one, ranging from terrorist (Al Qaeda and others), to nuclear proliferation and to the U.S. response to 9/11.
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[edit] Professional work
Kelly has broken numerous security and terrorism-related stories, including the CIA's recent -- and secret -- decision to disband the unit aimed at hunting Osama Bin Laden. ([1]). That story caused an uproar and led to the Senate voting on September 8, 2006 to reinstate the unit. [2] [3] Kelly was also the first reporter to interview Gary Schroen, the CIA operative who was dropped in to Afghanistan in the aftermath of 9/11 with a six man team and a directive to bring back the head of Bin Laden. [4]
[edit] Career
Kelly's first foray into journalism was as a senior editor at the Harvard Crimson in 1992, where she covered, among other things, Bill Clinton's inauguration. [5] Upon graduating from Harvard, her first paying position was reporting on local politics for her home-town newspaper, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
[edit] Overseas
After graduate school in Cambridge, England and internships at the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in Scotland and London, she joined the Boston team that launched radio news magazine The World, a joint venture between the BBC and Public Radio International. Two years later Kelly moved back to the UK, working as a host, foreign correspondent and senior producer for the BBC World Service, and as a producer at CNN in London. Kelly has earned her stripes at many locations around the world, with reports from the Afghan-Pakistan border, radical Hamburg mosques, Kosovo refugee camps, the deck of a nuclear aircraft carrier, and rural Cambodia. When at the BBC she also covered the peace talks that ended decades of violence in Northern Ireland.
[edit] Domestic
She moved back to the United States to join NPR in Washington. Before becoming NPR's intelligence correspondent in 2004, Kelly edited NPR's evening newsmagazine, All Things Considered, for three years. She was recently described as a "bad-ass babe" on the NPR website. [6]
[edit] Education and private life
Kelly has a degree in Government and French history and literature from Harvard University. She completed her masters in European Studies at Cambridge University (Emmanuel College) in England. She is married to Nicholas Boyle, an attorney with litigation firm Williams & Connolly.
