Charles Joseph DiBona (Rhodes 1957)
U.S. Navy. Rhodes Scholar, University of Oxford
1979 to ? - former President and CEO of American Petroleum Institute. Represents the oil industry’s interests in Washington with the Department of Energy and before Congress, when analysis and explanation of that industry’s worldwide troubles, he says, are urgently needed. The industry’s major trouble right now: how to meet rising demand at a time when oil supplies have become increasingly tight.[4]
When critics of the oil industry called several years ago for the big companies to be split up, divesting themselves of all but one function, Mr. DiBona led A.P.I. through an economic analysis aimed at developing counterarguments. A.P.I. staff members did some of the research while the institute commissioned outside studies seeking to show that integrated companies that did everything from exploration through production, refining and marketing benefited the nation’s economy.[4]
So far, said a spokesman for the A.P.I., the institute has been effective in holding off the critics. “We have just made a much more sound economic argument than our opponents,” one A.P.I. executive said.[4]
1967 to 1973 - President and CEO of Center for Naval Analyses.[3] Congressional hearing … “There are at present 328 civilian employess about 150 of who are of professional staff members … The Center has a history actually dating back close to 30 years if your take its principal original group called the Operations Evaluation Group, which was formly part of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.”[3]
“That group still exists, and it is one of our largest operating groups. It is rather unique in that that particular part of CNA provides analysts who go out on field assignment with the Navy.”[3]
“That is, we have people on the Gulf of Tonkin 7th Fleet ships, we have people at Norfolk, we have people at Test Commands. We have people in Saigon with the operating forces giving assistance directly to the operating forces and providing unique advantage, I think, to the Center, and that is what we have, a cadre of analysts who come back to the Center with a real working knowledge of the operation of the Navy; therefore, we have, I believe, much more realistic studies … we do hold top secret documents of a similar classification [pentago papers] … we take some pride in the security arrangements that we have developed … [3,p148]
1966, and Since - Turned in resignaton from the United States Navy. That was turned down and I spent the last year of my naval service as a special assistant to the Under Secretary of the Navy, Mr. Robert Baldwin by Lyndon B. Johnson during Vietnam War.[3] (Baldwin became Chairman of Morgan Stanley when the bank was taken public in 1970s. Died Aged 95).
Spent 3 years on submarine duty operating out of New London, Conn., went to the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense Comptroller, and worked there in the Deputy Assistant Secretary’s Office for Systems Analyses, who subsequently became the Assistant Secretary.[3] (President John F. Kennedy)
1960 - Officers Submarine School.[3]
1957 - Rhodes Scholar, Balliol College, University of Oxford.[1]
Reported to a destroyer in that year, spent 1 year on that destroyer and then went to Oxford University.[3]
1956 to 1967 - former U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander
Naval Academy.
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