The 2025 / 2026 MI Hall of Fame will take place on 25-26 JUNE 2026.
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE CLASS OF 2026!
Brigadier General Dudley Gordon: Commissioned an infantry second lieutenant from Officer Candidate School in 1956, Dudley Gordon served 31 years before retiring in 1986. He commanded the 303d Army Security Agency Battalion, the 522d Combat Electronic Warfare Intelligence (CEWI) Battalion, and the 66th MI Group. He also served as the J-2 of both the Rapid Deployment Joint Task Force and U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) and as G-2, U.S. Army Europe (USAREUR). Throughout the 1970s, he played a key role in testing and fielding the first CEWI battalion, a post-Vietnam transformation that integrated signal intelligence assets into tactical intelligence units at the division. In the 1980s, he established the joint intelligence structure for the newly activated CENTCOM and oversaw the challenging intelligence transition from Active Defense to AirLand Battle in USAREUR. Gordon was selected for major general in 1985 but chose to retire the following year.
Colonel James A. Hamby: Jim Hamby received his commission through the ROTC at Florida State University in 1986 and retired in 2011 as the chief, Counterintelligence (CI) & Human Intelligence (HUMINT) Division (J-2X), at U.S. Central Command during the height of operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. His 25-plus years of continuous active duty military service included tactical service with the 101st Airborne Division, high-risk counterterrorism operations, strategic HUMINT missions/operations, and leadership in the Joint Special Operations and Special Mission communities. In addition to sensitive missions as a Clandestine Service Operations Officer (aka Case Officer) working with Joint Special Operations Command, Central Intelligence Agency, and Federal Bureau of Investigation counterparts, he was also the founder and first commander of the Department of Defense’s HUMINT Training Joint Center of Excellence at Fort Huachuca. After retirement, he had a successful civilian career—in the Senior National Intelligence Service and Defense Intelligence Senior Executive Service Tier II—as the first deputy director of the Defense Clandestine Service and later positions in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and Defense Intelligence Agency, culminating a total of 32+ years of federal (uniformed and civilian) service.
Major Peter Kim: Peter Kim, a foreign national born in Korea but living in China, enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1944. Following Japan’s surrender in August 1945, Kim, then a technician fifth grade, was temporarily commissioned an officer to serve as the official representative of Supreme Allied Commander, Lt. Gen. Albert Wedemeyer. In this capacity, 1st Lt. Kim led Operation Sparrow to liberate more than 7,000 U.S. and Allied civilians from Japanese internment camps in Shanghai. Once the camps were liberated, Kim negotiated directly with Japanese authorities to secure cooperation, safeguard prisoners, and oversee the recovery of U.S. property in China. Postwar, he secured a permanent commission in 1945 and U.S. citizenship—via an act of Congress signed into law by President Harry Truman in 1946—and had myriad assignments in China, California, and Korea, culminating with his retirement in 1964 as the support commander at the Defense Language Institute. Kim passed away in 1995.
Command Sergeant Major Sammy W. Wise: Sammy Wise enlisted in the U.S. Army as an infantry soldier in 1960 and reclassed as an intelligence analyst in 1972. In addition to two deployments with advisory teams to Vietnam, he had multiple assignments as an intelligence sergeant and as a command sergeant major of the 504th MI Group (and later Brigade), the 501st MI Group, the U.S. Army Intelligence Center and School, the Intelligence and Security Command, III Corps, and finally, as commandant of the III Corps Non-Commissioned Officers Academy. While CSM of the 504th MI Group, he was instrumental in the effort to validate the Combat Electronic Warfare Intelligence concept at the corps level. He is remembered foremost for building pride and professionalism within Army intelligence during every assignment and promoting MI to senior leaders throughout the Army. He retired in 1990. Wise passed away on January 21, 2026.
Full biographies for our Class of 2025 and Class of 2026 are available on the Hall of Fame Members page.
WE ARE NOW ACCEPTING HALL OF FAME NOMINATIONS THROUGH 15 OCTOBER 2026. SEE THE NOMINATION GUIDANCE PAGE FOR MORE DETAILS!