John Joseph Loftus (born February 12, 1950, in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American author, former US government prosecutor and former Army intelligence officer. He is a president of The Intelligence Summit and a president of the Florida Holocaust Museum, the first Irish Catholic president of that institution. Loftus serves on the Board of Advisers to Public Information Research. He is a resident of St. Petersburg, Florida.
Loftus has a regular segment on the John Batchelor show that currently airs on WABC in New York on Sundays from 7pm-10pm.
It is possible that John Loftus may know more intelligence secrets than anyone alive. As a Justice Department prosecutor, Loftus once held some of the highest security clearances in the world, with special access to NATO Cosmic, CIA codeword, and Top Secret Nuclear files. As a private attorney, he works without charge to help hundreds of intelligence agents obtain lawful permission to declassify and publish the hidden secrets of our times. He is the author of four history books, three of which have been made into films, two were international best sellers, and one was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.
Mr. Loftus is also President of the Intelligence Summit, an international non-profit non- partisan educational forum for the intelligence agencies of the free world and Vice Chairman of the Florida Holocaust Museum.
As a young U.S. Army officer, John Loftus helped train Israelis on a covert operation that turned the tide of battle in the 1973 Yom Kippur War. During the Carter and Reagan Administrations, he investigated CIA cases and Nazi War Criminals for the Attorney General of the United States. In 1982, his 60 Minutes expose of Nazis on the US government payroll won the Emmy Award for outstanding investigative journalism.
John is rated among the funniest and most inspiring speakers on the international and college lecture circuits and now he’s back with a timely and inspiring new lecture topic, “The Truth About Terrorism (Terrorism for Morons)”.
John Loftus is recognized as the former intelligence analyst for the Fox News Channel, where his program was seen each Sunday. The Loftus Report was also heard by four million listeners every weeknight from 10:30 to 11 PM on ABC National Radio's John Batchelor Show. (WABCradio.com).
Currently, John Loftus Report can be heard Monday and Tuesday from 11:00 to 12:00 PM EST on WMCA 570 AM, WSNR 620 AM (New York City) and WKAT 1360 AM (Miami, Florida).