Career
Inderfurth served in several government positions, including on the staffs of the National Security Council, United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. Inderfurth also worked for ABC News as a national security correspondent, specializing in arms control, and was awarded an Emmy in 1983. Inderfurth worked as the Moscow correspondent for ABC News from February 1989 to August 1991.
During Inderfurth's tenure as Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia, India and Pakistan tested its first nuclear devices in 1998, the Taliban tightened its grip on Afghanistan and extended safe haven to Osama bin Laden, India and Pakistan fought a brief war over the area of Kargil in Kashmir, and there was coup in Pakistan by Gen. Pervez Musharaf removing civilian Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. During this time, Inderfurth also oversaw Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's Global Humanitarian Demining 2010 Initiative.
In 2002, Inderfurth appeared in the BBC documentary The Situation Room: America in Crisis in which Inderfurth and other high-level, retired diplomats and political appointees portray events in a fictitious White House Situation Room during a hypothetical nuclear crisis. Inderfurth plays the President of the United States, when his National Security Council is faced with a nuclear crisis on the Indian subcontinent. Other notable officials in the documentary include Ambassador Robert B. Oakley, former White House Chief of Staff John Podesta and former White House Press Secretary Joe Lockhart.
Inderfurth co-authored a book with Dr. Loch K. Johnson entitled, Fateful Decisions: Inside the National Security Council (2004) and is a frequent op-ed contributor to major American newspapers.
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