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 | Jack H.
Taylor Jr. is an award-winning investigative reporter of national renown
who serves as managing director of Taylor Research and Investigations. Mr. Taylor is
licensed as a professional private investigator in Texas
and Oklahoma and operates nationally. Based in Dallas and Oklahoma City, Mr.
Taylor is one of the nation's premier experts in the use of government documents and the
Freedom of Information Act. His investigative and consulting skills have been put to work
for clients across the country. He has performed due diligence background investigations,
located missing witnesses, conducted asset searches and provided timely litigation support
for individual businessmen, law firms and corporations. Among several professional
organizations, Mr. Taylor is a member of the Texas Association of Licensed Investigators,
Texas Crime Prevention Association and Investigative Reporters and Editors.
Mr. Taylor is a native of Oklahoma City
and holds a bachelor's degree in history from the University of Texas at Dallas. For
nearly 20 years he covered a wide range of reporting beats for The Daily Oklahoman and
Oklahoma City Times, including a lengthy stint as the newspapers top investigative
reporter.
Since then, he has done investigative
reporting for the Denver Post, the Dallas Times Herald and the Los Angeles Daily News. His
work has appeared in such highly regarded publications as the New York Herald-Tribune, the
New York Times and the Washington Post.
A prolific writer and consummate
researcher Mr. Taylor has won scores of national, regional and state awards for his
reporting and investigative work on a broad range of topics, ranging from federal Indian
programs, the My Lai massacre and military preparedness to pardon and parole inequities,
bookmaking and gambling, police brutality, college sports and drugs. He was a finalist for
a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on military affairs.
Mr. Taylor served on the staff of the
Secretary of the Army and held various command and staff positions as an infantry officer.
He has written articles and contributed to handbooks on government documents and
investigative techniques, and has furthered his professional education with work at Duke
University, Vanderbilt University, the University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City University
and Columbia University.
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| Gary J.
Culverhouse, Chief Investigator
for TR&I in Oklahoma, is a retired Air Force officer who served
widely in intelligence, surveillance, war planning and investigations.
He was last assigned to the U.S. Embassy in Moscow where he served the
Defense Intelligence Agency as an attaché. |
Culverhouse specializes in all
investigative areas for TR&I and has more than 10 years of
experience in law enforcement, probation and parole, insurance
investigation and as an investigator for the Air Force Office of
Inspector General. He also is an instructor at the Federal Aviation
Administration Academy in Oklahoma City.
Culverhouse entered the Air Force
through the officer training program at Lackland Air Force Base near San
Antonio, Texas, in 1980, after graduating magna cum laude from the
University of Georgia at Columbus. He served as chief of the command
center at the Air Intelligence Agency, Kelly AFB, also at San Antonio,
during Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm during the Persian Gulf
War. Before becoming an air attaché, he also served as chief of
contingency and wartime planning for the 696th Intelligence Group at
Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland, near Washington, D.C.
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| Jack E.
Clower, an associate of Taylor
Research & Investigations whoh as operated the affiliated but
independent Aaron Investigations (License A08122) since 1995, is a
retired Dallas police officer with 37 years' law enforcement
experience. He earned a Bachelor's Degree of Science from the Abilene
Christian College and a Master's Degree in International Law. |
Clower is a specialist in video
surveillances and electronic countermeasures, including debugging. He
has also received advanced training in electronic surveillance and
counter-surveillance and once taught intelligence courses in the
military.
Clower is a licensed Security
Consultant (D807) and was a partner in Action Investigation &
Security in Dallas. He has handled many felony criminal and security
cases during his career, which included services as a Dallas Police
sergeant in the Criminal Investigations Division, Youth Section. He
directed and controlled varying numbers of detectives in criminal
investigations. His job included the major case coordination in
kidnappings, missing persons, sex crimes against children and other
crimes.
Clower began his interest in law
enforcement and investigation in college and continued that interest in
the military, where he taught at the Education Center in Finthen,
Germany. After military service, he joined the Dallas Police Department
and quickly rose to the rank of Special Operations and Field Training
Officer, then police sergeant. He also served as an aide to the Deputy
Chief of Police for the Youth and Family Crimes Division and was in
charge of the divisional budget, payroll and training coordinator for a
division of 100 sworn officers and civilian employees.
Clower continued his career in law
enforcement and investigation and became a licensed security consultant
and a Partner in Action Investigation and Security in Dallas in 1992.
Then in 1995 he opened his own agency, which frequently assists Taylor
Research & Investigations with its electronic counter-measures and
surveillance needs.
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| R. David Luft
-- R. David Luft is a specialist in using innovative leadership techniques to
transform domestic and international business challenges into specific, achievable
opportunities. He brings Taylor Research and Investigations more than 20 years of
experience in international finance, trade and investment. He has served as a consultant for international
commerce and finance in both Dallas and Washington. He advises corporate and individual
clients on the financing of large projects and start-up ventures and performs due
diligence for domestic acquisitions. In addition, he has wide experience in designing
integrated courses of action for acquisition of aircraft and banks and for foreign direct
investments in leasing and telecommunications.
For four years Mr. Luft served as a vice
president for EDS Corp. in Plano, Texas, where he secured funding and guarantees for
international business, assisted other EDS units in contract bids for government and
multilateral funding programs and administered company-wide import- export compliance
programs.
During the Reagan administration, he
served as deputy assistant secretary of commerce. In that capacity he was charged with
developing programs and strategies to improve domestic and international competitiveness
of U.S. service industries and to increase access to foreign markets.
Earlier, Mr. Luft served as assistant
vice president of Mellon Bank, N.A. , in Pittsburgh and in Frankfurt, Germany.
He holds a B.A. from Yale College,
an M.A. from Rice University and an MBA from the University of Texas.
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