I guess I am either a plague carrier or people don't like to read.
Anyway, Dan Hedaya looks a lot like Leonard Worden, deputy chief of the exploration program from Frederick Pohl's Gateway.
The dude:
http://www.abandonia.com/vbullet/att...9&d=1302722263
The game:
http://www.abandonia.com/files/games...0Gateway_8.png
NOTE TO SELF: (Hidden from view since it is, after all, a note to myself).