|
|
Charles Wiley has reported from 100 countries and regularly continues his world travels - two or three trips abroad every year. (Six visits to China since 1979.) His in-depth search for facts led to his arrest eight times by secret police throughout the globe, 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, including reporting for NBC, UPI, the London Express and numerous other U.S. and foreign news media. He reported on the Tet offensive and during three other war years in Vietnam.
A graduate of New York University, Wiley's 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 and commentator, he has appeared on hundreds of network and local programs throughout the country - including many times on CNN Crossfire and C-Span.
Wiley has lectured in all 50 states and on five continents - including talks in Germany, Taiwan, Australia, South Africa, Thailand, Namibia and Albania. He lived briefly in the Soviet Union while giving talks at Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) University. Wiley lectured, while living on campus, in China (Jinan University, Guangzhou) and Russia (Moscow State University).
He contributed to establishing guidelines for a free press in Mongolia, spoke in Spain and Luxembourg (under the auspices of the U.S. government) and was a speaker for the White House Public Outreach Group. Wiley has played a major role at international conferences in Great Britain and Italy - and lectured in New Zealand at the Ministry of Civil Defence Academy.
He 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 Naval Academy Post Graduate School, CincPac, the British Intelligence & Security School and many others.
Wiley speaks at dozens of colleges & high schools every year - and to youth audiences throughout the United States, including annual talks to almost 2000 of the country's top HS seniors at Boy's State in two states. He has one-on-one conversations, about their society, with hundreds of students - and otherwise tracks their activities. He is also able to compare his experiences at universities in foreign countries with the picture in the USA.
He also had a very successful 13 year show business career - and served in the U.S. Navy. He teaches a life-style seminar at four colleges.