Name: Bradley Talmadge Age: 54 Education: 1966 - B.A. Marketing, University of California at Berkeley; Jd.D, Harvard University, Boston, MA. Background: After working on Lyndon Johnson's staff, Talmadge spent 2 years in Vietnam. After returning home with a bronze star, Talmadge joined the Rand Corporation, working on several top secret projects. From there he became Deputy Chief of the National Security Agency. After he was introduced to the findings at Area 51, Talmadge had the brainchild for Operation Back-Step and began putting the initial team together. Talmadge has been pivotal to the success of the project, keeping the top secret project properly funded.