Missile Defense Expert Available Regarding Poland, US Agreement of Basing 10 United States Ground Based Missile Defense Interceptors Being Signed by Secretary State Condoleezza Rice in Warsaw on August 20th

    WASHINGTON and WARSAW, Poland, Aug. 19 /EMWNews/ -- Riki

Ellison, President and Founder of the Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance and

an internationally recognized expert on missile defense, will be available

for telephone and personal interviews on the historic signing of the

missile defense agreement by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice between

the United States and Poland on the following dates and times.






    August 19th    Washington DC

    Available for telephone interviews starting at 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.

     call 571-213-3328



    August 20th    Warsaw Poland

    Available for interviews on the missile agreement



    August 21st    Slupska, Poland

    Will be available for interviews at the Missile Defense Site Location



    August 22nd    Slupska, Poland

    Available for interviews on the agreement and site location



    Riki Ellison has been working on Missile Defense for more than 25 years

and has been involved with the GBI site in Poland for the past two years,

visiting the capital of Poland, Warsaw and the 10 Missile Defense

Interceptor Site Location at Redzikowo near Slupska, Poland three separate

visits in the past 6 months.



    Mr. Ellison was one of the first American delegations to visit the

actual site in Poland. He has met with Polish government officials at the

local and federal levels to include the foreign ministry and defense

ministry as well as elected Polish officials. Mr. Ellison has also meet

with the US State Department, the Department of Defense, the National

Security Council, and many members of Congress on the missile site in

Poland. He has great insight and he understands the context for the

upcoming activities surrounding the agreement and the missile defense site

at Redzikowo.



    Mr. Ellison is a nationally-recognized spokesman on a broad range of

missile defense topics in the United States, Europe, Asia and Middle East.

He has been quoted widely in newspapers, web sites, on radio and television

and in many prestigious journals worldwide. His MDAA website is located at

http://www.missiledefenseadvocacy.org



    This is a great opportunity to interview an expert who will be in

Warsaw when Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice signs the agreement on

deploying our ground-based interceptors in Poland. He will also be at the

base where the missiles are being deployed two days later, and can describe

the facility, the reaction of the local population and the military

concerns.



    Mr. Ellison is a telephone call away at 571 213-3328, or call Mike

Terrill at 602 885-1955 to arrange a personal interview on an historic

agreement between the United States and Poland.






    Mike Terrill

    MDAA Media Coordinator

    602 885-1955