Jeremiah Davis

Jeremiah “Jerry” Davis is a retired senior intelligence officer who enjoyed a 30-year career with the National Security Agency. Prior to NSA, Jerry served almost 7 years in the U.S. Army Security Agency (ASA) as a voice intercept operator and intelligence analyst. He grew up in Brooklyn and Long Island, New York, and graduated from Brooklyn Preparatory School in 1963. He attended Fordham University for one year prior to enlisting in ASA. He is a two-time graduate of the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California, where he studied Czech and Slovak. Jerry earned a B.S. from the University of Maryland and an M.A. in Russian and East European Studies from George Washington University. He also completed many courses over the years at NSA’s National Cryptologic School.

Although he authored countless intelligence reports over the years at NSA, he would be considered something of a late bloomer when it comes to openly published works. His first effort was a compilation of the writings of his late daughter, Heather Davis Johnson, who kept a Facebook journal during her five-year battle with cancer. She intended to publish that journal in book form when she was cancer-free, but she passed away on 1 January 2016 before she could do so. Jerry fulfilled her wish to share her journey with others and published “The Starfish Chronicles: A Cancer Warrior’s Memoir” in 2018. He published a revised and condensed version of Heather's book in February 2024 under the title "Live Love Hope Believe: A Cancer Warrior's Journey."

Jerry has written a trilogy of novels set at Cold War listening posts operated by ASA along the West German border with the former Czechoslovakia. His first novel in the series, “Snow Mountain Misfits: Cold War Tales of the Super Secret Army Security Agency” was published in October 2020 and can be characterized as two parts M*A*S*H, one part “Animal House,” and a dash of Catch-22. "Border Site Summer" was released in March 2022 and follows some of the Snow Mountain characters as they move to another remote listening post in Bavaria. The final installment "A Borderline Case" was published in October 2023 and is set in 1975 when a National Security Agency civilian revisits one of the sites where he served as an ASA operative in the mid-1960s. One of his assignments is to observe a suspected communist agent who manages a gasthaus frequented by Americans working at the listening post.

Jerry resides in coastal Delaware with his wife Dorothy to whom he has been married for more than 56 years. In addition to writing, his hobbies include following current national and international events, fishing on Delaware’s Inland Bays, and enjoying time with his son Joe, his daughter Shannon, and his five grandchildren (Rhianna and Quinn Davis, Toni Davis, and Grace and Katy Johnson).