Appointment of Harrison H. Schmitt as a Member of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board

The President today announced his intention to appoint Harrison H. Schmitt to be a member of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board.

Mr. Schmitt served in the United States Senate (R-N. Mex.) in 1976-1982. He was a Senate leader on issues dealing with intelligence activities and served as chairman of the Subcommittee on Legislation and Rights of Americans of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and a member of the Subcommittee on Collections and Foreign Operations. During the last 2 years of his term in office, Mr. Schmitt was chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee's Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space and of the Senate Appropriations Committee's Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education. He was also a leader of the Appropriations subcommittees dealing with defense, energy, and natural resource matters.

Previously Mr. Schmitt was Assistant Administrator for Energy Programs, NASA, in 1974-1975; Chief, Scientist Astronaut Office, NASA, in 1973; and was scientist-astronaut in 1965-1973. He was the Apollo 17 lunar module pilot in 1972.

He graduated from the California Institute of Technology (B.S., 1957) and Harvard University (Ph.D., 1964). He is the recipient of many awards and honors including the NASA Distinguished Service Medal in 1973.

Mr. Schmitt resides in Albuquerque, N. Mex. He was born July 3, 1935, in Santa Rita, N. Mex.