Gordon Cucullu has been an Army Green Beret lieutenant colonel, a writer, a popular speaker, a business executive and a farmer. He lived for more than thirteen years in East Asia, including eight years in Korea. He worked on Korea and East Asian affairs at both the Pentagon and Department of State. His first major non-fiction work, Separated at Birth: How North Korea became the Evil Twin, is based in large part on his extensive experience in working with Korea and East Asia from a governmental insider and private sector standpoint.

Gordon took on the challenge of writing Separated at Birth after receiving strong support from his agent, Joanne Wang, who correctly identified the need for a book of this kind. Separated at Birth is designed for a general audience that is interested in current affairs, contemporary issues and the war on terror. The book focuses on North Korea in terms of South Korea. In it Gordon explains how Korea came to be divided and how the two halves have grown in markedly different ways because of competing ideologies of freedom versus communism. It concludes by discussing a dramatic series of coordinated policy options to deal with the current crisis.

Gordon grew up as the son of an Air Force officer, a WW II and Korean War veteran. He lived as a child in Japan during the Korean War. After the war his father left service and returned to New Orleans where Gordon finished schooling, graduating with a History degree from University of New Orleans. In 1967 Gordon turned back a three year graduate fellowship from University of North Carolina to volunteer for military service. He enlisted and after graduation from Infantry Officer Candidate School, Airborne and Special Forces training went first to Okinawa and Korea and then to Vietnam.

In Vietnam Gordon was a member of the highly classified Studies and Observation Group that conducted top secret reconnaissance missions into Laos, Cambodia and denied areas of Vietnam. Gordon says, “I was not a hero but was honored to serve in the company of heroes, most of them unrecognized because of the secret nature of the missions.” Later Gordon went to Korea where he was the first American to attend a mid-level Korean officer’s school and was charter member of a new Korean-US Combined Forces Command. From Korea he was assigned to the Pentagon where he was planned and managed military assistance to Central American countries in a volatile period. His last active duty assignment was as an exchange officer to the State Department where he was a political-military advisor to the assistant secretary of state for East Asia Pacific Affairs, a position then held by Paul Wolfowitz.

Gordon returned to Korea as a General Electric Aerospace vice president where he had a successful four year stint. He was then hired by the Korea Society in New York City to rescue that faltering organization. In 1994 Gordon relocated to a farm in Walton, NY and started a llama and alpaca operation called East Brook Farms.

Gordon is a prolific fiction writer also and has produced a manuscript for an historical novel called Phoenix Rising that is the first of a series of five books based on events in East Asia. It begins in 1930 and ends in 1952 at the height of the Korean War. The first three chapters of Phoenix Rising are posted on Gordon’s website.

In addition to his books, Gordon for the past seven years has also produced a weekly opinion column entitled The Right Approach. It is published in the Walton Reporter, an Upstate newspaper and is available on his site also. He is a frequent op-ed writer for major newspapers and for the burgeoning new Internet newsletter sites such as TechCentralStation.com and Fox News.com.

Since the Attack on America on September 11, 2001 Gordon has been a frequently requested analyst on major radio and television stations. He has more than forty appearances on the Fox News Channel, especially on the popular morning show Fox & Friends. Gordon was hired by WABC TV Channel 7 in New York City to be its on-camera analyst during the War in Iraq, appearing on several score occasions. He has been a regular on WABC and Westwood One radio talk shows hosted by Monica Crowley, Steve Malzberg, John Bachelor-Steve Alexander and others. Gordon is a welcome guest on Linda Chavez’s popular talk show on Liberty Broadcasting radio. He has also done a regular radio program with host Laurie Morrow on WDEV in Vermont and with host Mike Rose on the FAN in Atlanta.

Gordon is a high-demand speaker by many groups and organizations including academic, military, veterans, civic and foreign affairs oriented organizations. He has entertained and informed audiences across the country appearing most recently in New York, Memphis, Burlington, Houston and Boston. He is currently expanding a speaking tours honoring Korean War veterans. The tour theme is “Remembering the Forgotten War.” The tour was kicked off in Vermont, and preparations are underway for more appearances around the country. Watch the web site for details. If you are interested in booking Gordon as a speaker for your event please contact him through his web site.

Ten percent of all profits that Gordon makes from his writing and speaking are donated to charity, especially to Korean War veterans’ projects.

Author: Separated at Birth: How North Korea became the Evil Twin

Education:
BA, University of New Orleans, LA
Graduate studies in History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
MS, Systems Management, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
US Army Command & General Staff College
Korean Army College
General Electric Advanced Marketing Managers Seminar

Awards:
Distinguished History Student, UNO
Honor Graduate, US Army Infantry School, OCS and Officers Advanced Courses
Distinguished Graduate, US Army School for Special Warfare (Green Berets)
Honor Graduate, Reconnaissance Team Leaders Course, MACVSOG, Vietnam
Distinguished US Graduate, Korean Army College

Military Awards

Bronze Star, Defense Superior Service Medal, Defense Meritorious Service Medal (2), Joint Services Commendation Medal, Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry, US Presidential Unit Commendation, Combat Infantryman’s Badge, Senior Parachutist Badge, Vietnamese Parachute Badge, Korean Parachute Badge, Special Forces Tab

Contact Gordon:

Web site: http://www.colonelgordon.com or http://www.colonelgordon.com
E-mail: gordon@colonelgordon.com
Mail: 2410 Dunk Hill Road, Walton, NY 13856
Telephone: 607.865.7238 or mobile 607.435.1728
Literary Agent: Joanne Wang Agency