LTC Octavio Pérez, USA (Ret.)
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LTC Octavio Pérez, USA (Ret.)

LTC Octavio Pérez, USA (Ret.)

Executive Director, Defense & Intelligence Programs
MSI² Research Institute

About

Lt. Colonel Octavio Pérez is a U.S. Army intelligence officer with more than two decades of active-duty service and additional reserve assignments focused on intelligence, security, and Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Warfare. He commanded operations at Fort Leonard Wood, served in the Republic of Korea, and later joined the Defense Intelligence Agency, where he analyzed North Korean military capabilities and supported crisis responses to the Achille Lauro and TWA 847 incidents. Pérez volunteered with the 1st Cavalry Division during Desert Shield/Storm and subsequently became Chief Intelligence Instructor at the U.S. Army School of the Americas, training Latin American officers in low-intensity conflict. His reserve career culminated at U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), where he served as a strategic intelligence officer in J2 Operations, supporting hemispheric security missions.