T. D. Allman (born 1944) is an American author, historian, and journalist. As a freelance journalist he did exposés of the CIA's secret involvement in the war in Laos. He interviewed Yasser Arafat, Helmut Kohl, Boris Yeltsin, and Manuel Antonio Noriega as foreign correspondent for the magazine "Vanity Fair". He has also written about the History of Florida. One of his books on foreign policy added the phrase "Rogue State" to foreign policy discourse and he coined the prase "secret war".