Major General Michael E. Ennis, U.S. Marine Corps
Retired Nov. 1, 2007
MG Ennis was Deputy Director for Community HUMINT at the Central Intelligence Agency. Major General Michael E. Ennis assumed the position of Deputy Director of the National Clandestine Service for Community Human Intelligence on 6 May, 2006. He previously served as the Director of Human Intelligence at the Defense Intelligence Agency. Major General Ennis is a native of Minnesota and a graduate of Concordia College (Moorhead, MN) with BA degrees in French and International Relations. He also holds an MA degree in Government/National Security Studies from Georgetown University. MG Ennis was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps on 1 January 1972 as a graduate of the Officer Candidates Class (OCC) program. Following an eighteen month tour of duty in Okinawa as a Rifle Platoon Commander and Battalion Embarkation Officer, 1st Lieutenant Ennis was assigned to officer recruiting duty in Milwaukee, Wisconsin where he spent three years recruiting officer candidates from the colleges and universities of Wisconsin and Michigan's Upper Peninsula. In 1978, Captain Ennis entered the Foreign Area Officer program and spent two years studying Russian at both the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California, and at the U.S. Army's Russian Institute in Garmisch, Germany.
In 1980 he returned to Okinawa for one year as the Deputy G-2 of the 9th Marine Amphibious Brigade and as the S-2 of the 9th Marine Regiment before returning to the United States, where he spent three years as a translator on the Washington-Moscow Hotline (MOLINK). In 1986 Major Ennis returned to Europe where he spent over three years in Potsdam, East Germany as the Naval Representative to the CINC, Group of Soviet Forces Germany. He returned to the United States in 1989 and was assigned as the Operations Officer, 2nd Surveillance, Reconnaissance and Intelligence Group. In 1991 Lt Col Ennis completed a Military Fellowship at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington DC. He was then assigned to Moscow, Russia where he served as the Assistant Naval Attaché and as the U.S. Military representative to Azerbaijan. Upon selection to Colonel in 1993, he was returned to the United States where he served two years as the Director of the Intelligence Division, Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps. Colonel Ennis served as the AC/S G-2 of the III Marine Expeditionary Force in Okinawa from 1995 to 1998 when he was named Commander of the Joint Intelligence Center Pacific (JICPAC) in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Upon selection to Brigadier General in 2000, he became the Commandant’s Director of Marine Corps Intelligence where he remained until January 2004. He was promoted to Major General on 1 October 2005. Major General Ennis' personal decorations include the Defense Superior Service Medal, the Legion of Merit, the Defense Meritorious Service Medal with two oak leaf clusters, the Joint Service Commendation Medal, the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal with one gold star, the Army Commendation Medal, and the Army Achievement Medal.
