He was a staff member for the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
[1] Joyal holds a master's degree in international relations from the Catholic University of America.
[3] He later became a vice president at, and currently serves as managing director at National Strategies Inc.[2] He has been cited as an expert source by many news outlets, including Time Magazine[1] and PBS The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.
[4] His published works include the book Fifteen Years of Espionage (ISBN 0935067140) and "Singling out Arab-Americans," the January 21, 1991, editorial in the Washington Post [5] He has close ties with the government of the Republic of Georgia: in 1998 he acted as the country's first lobbyist to the U.S. Government,[6] and he is listed as the contact for the 501(c)(3) charitable organization founded by former Georgian president Eduard Shevardnadze.
[8] A critic of the administration of Russian president Vladimir Putin, in late February 2007 Joyal told Dateline NBC that the murder of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko served as a warning to all critics of the Putin government.