Charles Wiley has lectured in 50 states and on 5 continents.

While reporting from 100 countries, his search for facts led to his arrest eight times by secret police, including the KGB, and imprisonment in a Cuban dungeon while he was a correspondent for New York City radio station WOR.

Wiley has covered 11 wars four times in Vietnam including reporting for NBC, UPI, the London Express and numerous other U.S. and foreign news media.

A graduate of New York University, his freelance articles and photographs have appeared in numerous publications, including the New York Times, U.S. News & World Report, Newsweek and Time.

A well-known radio/TV talk-show personality, he has appeared on hundreds of network and local programs, including many times on CNN Crossfire and C-Span.

Wiley lectured, and resided on campus, in China (Jinan University, Guangzhou) and Russia (Leningrad University and Moscow State University) and elsewhere abroad.

He helped establish guidelines for a free press in Mongolia, was a speaker for the White House Public Outreach Group, lectured in New Zealand at the Civil Defence Academy and played a major role at international conferences.

Wiley frequently addresses military audiences in the USA and abroad including the Naval War College, the Defense Intelligence Agency school, the Air Force school for its top NCO's, the Navy Postgraduate School, CincPac, the UK intelligence school and many others.

Wiley was the keynote speaker at a Jane's two-day conference in Washington on homeland defense and terrorism.

He went into Afghanistan, with the mujahideen, during the war against the Soviet Union.  Later during a tour of Kosovo, his visits to troops from many nations included the Russian 13th Tactical Group.

Wiley speaks, every year, at dozens of colleges, high schools and other youth audiences throughout the country.  Included are annual talks at UC Berkeley (up to 800 students) and to almost 2000 of the country's top high school seniors at Boy's State in New Jersey and Wisconsin.

Wiley had a very successful 13-year show business career.

He served in the Pacific during World War II.

He teaches a life-style seminar at four colleges.