Richard L. Cohn

Richard L. Cohn is a DOE/NNSA intelligence and counterintelligence official with a career background spanning the Defense Mapping Agency, the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, and the NNSA Nevada Field Office. He is a founding member and long-serving president of the AFIO Roger E. McCarthy Chapter (Las Vegas), the chapter's inaugural meeting having taken place in October 2002. His wife, Linda M. Cohn, serves as chapter secretary and concurrently held the position of SWEIS Document Manager at the NNSA Nevada Site Office — independently corroborating the couple's dual AFIO/NNSA footprint in the Nevada Test Site corridor.

Wilson-Davis Notes — "Rich" (Confirmed)

Cohn is confirmed as the "Rich" in the Wilson-Davis notes (October 2002), which describe "Rich & Doug — NNSA, AFIO members" who arranged Vice Admiral Wilson's visit to the Nevada Test Site and a subsequent "Farewell Tour." Per the document, Cohn sent Wilson copies of Eric Davis's NASA papers and related materials, gave Wilson directions to the meeting location (EG&G Special Projects, Grier and Paradise, Las Vegas), and communicated the date and time to Davis. The chapter he presided over had its founding meeting the same month as the Wilson-Davis meeting, placing him at the center of Las Vegas AFIO activity at exactly the relevant moment.

The identification was established by researcher RGH, who found Cohn on 1990s AFIO membership lists, confirmed by the AFIO site listing him as Las Vegas chapter president in late 2002, and corroborated by a 2006 NNSA newsletter naming him as a trainer. The corresponding "Doug" is Douglas Nousen, his NNSA Nevada counterpart and fellow AFIO chapter founding member.

When contacted by journalist Billy Cox (~2022), Cohn denied knowing Admiral Wilson, stated he "barely knew" Davis, and said he "would not have been in a position to vouch for him."