Inherent in every counterespionage (CE) investigation are unique complexities and decision-making processes. These stem from personal, legal, and investigative concerns and requirements. One tried and true investigative strategy used to collect evidence of betrayal and to develop new investigative leads is the sting operation, formally called a false flag. This course describes this strategy which is normally used as a last resort when a person is known or highly suspected to have engaged in espionage and is believed to be inactive. Stings imitate the real handling of spies. They provide an opportunity for suspects to reengage with someone purporting to be from the foreign intelligence entity (FIE) previously in contact with them. The course examines American counterintelligence's rich and successful history using stings. We study several of these operations from the 1980s to the 21st century: James Hall, US Army SIGINT analyst; Robert Lipka, US Army soldier assigned to NSA; GS-15 (COL, US Army Reserves) George Trofimoff, interrogator; SP4 Albert Sombolay, US Army soldier attempting to spy for Iraq during Desert Storm Gulf War; FBI Special Agent Earl Pitts, spying for the Russians; SP4 Ryan Anderson, US Army soldier attempting to spy for Al-Qaeda; Jonathan Toebbe, Dept. of the Navy civilian submarine engineer attempting to spy for Brazil; and Alexander Yuk Ching Ma, former CIA and FBI employee, spying for China.

4-Hour Seminar

Taught by Connie Huff

This seminar will focus on the intelligence and counterintelligence lessons to be learned from the American Revolution, including General Washington, America's first spymaster; Paul Revere and the Mechanics; Dr. Benjamin Church, America's first traitor; the Setauket, the "Culper Ring" of spies on Long Island; and MG Benedict Arnold, America's second traitor.

4-Hour Seminar

Taught by Constance Huff and/or Rusty Capps

This seminar highlights the intelligence and counterintelligence operations of both the Union and the Confederacy during the Civil War. Because the intelligence skills and lessons learned in the Revolutionary War were not made permanent, both sides in the Civil War had to reinvent intelligence collection strategies, methodologies, and tradecraft.

4-Hour Seminar

Taught by Constance Huff and/or Rusty Capps

The impact of the Industrial Revolution, anarchism, and the violence associated with the US Labor Movement on police labor squads, federal intelligence, and law enforcement agencies. The organization and early roles of the Department of Justice, Secret Service, ONI, MID, and the Bureau of Investigation. The impact of intelligence in the Spanish-American War and German intelligence and sabotage operations in the US during WWII.

4-Hour Seminar

Taught by Constance Huff and/or Rusty Capps

This seminar will focus on the following Japanese intelligence collection operations that targeted the US and our allies: the recruitment of Harry Thompson; the treason of Navy Commander John Farnsworth; the espionage case of the "Doll Lady," Velvalee Dickinson; the joint Japanese and Nazi intelligence operations in Hawaii involving the Otto Kuehn family of spies and Japanese Naval Lt. Takeo Yoshikawa; and finally the extraordinary tale of Lucille Ball's teeth and the Japanese spy who never was that became a segment of "Myth Busters.“

4-Hour Seminar

Taught by Rusty Capps

This seminar will focus on the following Nazi intelligence operations in America: The early German intelligence networks in American companies following WWI; the loss of America's second most protected secret of WWII - the Norden Bomb Sight; FBI double agent, William G. Sebold, who broke the Fritz Duquesne Spy Ring; Operation PASTORIUS and the 8 Nazi saboteurs that landed in America; the operations of the FBI's Special Intelligence Service (SIS) in Latin America; and the creation of America's second civilian intelligence service, the OSS.

4-Hour Seminar

Taught by Rusty Capps

This module will focus on the early Soviet intelligence operations in America, the Spanish Civil War; the Bonus March; the several perpetrations of the Manhattan Project, the Army Signals Security Agency’s (a predecessor of NSA) VENONA Program; early Soviet defectors; the Rosenbergs espionage network; and “the Spies that got away,” Joel Barr and Alfred Sarant, who escaped justice by defecting and for 30+ years, worked in the defense industry of the Soviet Union.

4-Hour Seminar

Taught by Rusty Capps

Anarchist attacks in America including the 1920 Anarchist bombing of Wall Street, the deadliest terror bombing until the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City in 1995, and the federal response:

• The Palmer Red Raids

• The impact of the world depression on espionage in America

• The “Lawless Years” - the national crime wave of the 1930s and the federal law enforcement and Congressional responses

• The WWI Bonus Marchers as a threat to national security

• The “Terror” in the USSR – the defections of Soviet intelligence officers and several critical warnings missed

• The rise of fascism in Italy and Germany and the Spanish Civil War as a prelude to WWII

• The formation of the OSS, America’s second civilian intelligence service

The world moves toward war and the FDR Administration reorganizes American intelligence and CI agencies. Congress passes new laws to counter the threats:

• The Neutrality Laws

• The Foreign Agents Registration Act; and the Smith Act

• WWII begins in Europe on September 1, 1939, and America remains neutral.

• December 7, 1941, Japan attacks Pearl Harbor, December 11, 1941, Germany declares war on the US, and we join the Allies in a world war on two fronts.

4-Hour Seminar

Taught by Rusty Capps

In this module we will focus on the beginnings of the Cold War; the National Security Act of 1947; the "Red Scare" and McCarthyism; the evolution of covert actions as a tool of American foreign policy, including the Bay of Pigs; Operation MONGOOSE, and CIA plots to assassinate Fidel Castro. We will also explore the USIC's failures to predict significant world events including the rise of Ayatollah Khomeini, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the al Qaeda attacks on September 11, 2001. We will conclude with the intelligence successes that led to the raid on Abbottabad and the death of Osama bin Laden.

4-Hour Seminar

Taught by Gina Bennett and/or Rusty Capps

This module is a follow-on to - From the Cold War to the War on Terror: 1945 – 2011. It will be taught by a senior, former CIA all-source analyst who was intimately involved in the raid on Abbottabad that resulted in the death of Osama bin Laden and the period following, including the Arab Spring, the rise and fall of ISIS, and the US withdrawal from Afghanistan.

In this module, students explore the typical lifecycle of terrorism to better anticipate the emergence and resurgence of socio-political violence of a scale that would require a USG response. The complex and diverse national security challenges posed by an increasingly interconnected global environment demand efficient use of limited, and costly, Intelligence resources. We will explore the stages of terrorism, agnostic of ideology, and discover the most effective sources of indicators along the lifecycle, as well as how to build important collaboration and partnerships to create more seamless coverage. Anticipating the disruptive impact of terrorism on otherwise more important or strategic intelligence efforts is a critical part of the IC’s warning mission.

4-Hour Seminar

Taught by Gina Bennett

Ethical approaches to the use of intelligence are the responsibility of everyone in the IC. The potential for adverse, long-term consequences of short-term, well-intended decisions is unavoidable. By using an ethical process for decision-making, we can reduce the severity and surprise of such unintended outcomes. In this module, we will examine a four-part ethical decision-making cycle designed specifically for the Intelligence profession. We will also practice with past and future case studies to become more familiar with the process. By understanding how to apply classical ethical frameworks and identify key paradigm tensions, participants will be better equipped to communicate and make good decisions when faced with bad options.

4-Hour Seminar

Taught by Gina Bennett

This course introduces students to the field of intelligence, particularly as practiced in the United States. After a brief overview of the historical foundations of modern intelligence, it discusses how intelligence is conducted including collection, analysis, counterintelligence, covert action, and oversight. It also discusses intelligence ethics, as well as the disruptive influences of September 11, new technologies, and emerging social trends.

4-Hour Seminar

Taught by Cindy Storer

An overview of the espionage cases, the foreign intelligence officers, and the traitors who operated in our nation’s Capital, in and around Ft. Meade and rural Maryland and in Northern Virginia.

4-Hour Seminar

Taught by Constance Huff and/or Rusty Capps

In 1862, Frederick Douglass wrote: "The true history of this war [Civil War] will show that the loyal army found no friends at the South so faithful, active, and daring in their efforts to sustain the government as the Negroes. Negroes have repeatedly threaded their way through the lines of the rebels exposing themselves to bullets to convey important information to the loyal army of the Potomac."

African Americans have taken an incredible, and mostly unknown, overlooked, or understated, journey from the 18th Century into the intelligence world of the 21st Century. This course highlights interesting cases demonstrating race and gender implications, motivations, risk-taking, sacrifices, contributions, and accomplishments of African Americans throughout our intelligence and nation's history. We discuss intelligence tradecraft and collection techniques that were developed without the benefit of training or mentoring from intelligence professionals and daring feats as spies (both for and against America) and as double agents. The course reveals significant cryptologic contributions during peace and war. This presentation celebrates the courage, dedication, and personal commitment African Americans made in securing the freedom of a people, but also in securing and sustaining America's freedom.

4-Hour Seminar

Taught by Constance Huff

“Therein lies the fascination with espionage—the weird mixture of high endeavor and sordid treachery, cleverness and stupidity, bravery and cowardice, to be found among agents and spies of both sexes.” —E.H. Cookridge, Sisters of Delilah

Since the beginning of recorded history, women have been spies, traitors, heroines, saboteurs, terrorists, and espionage enablers. An ancient Indian philosopher and strategist, Kautilya, wrote in the 4th Century BC about using women as spies because of their ability to be unnoticed, to be nonthreatening, and to blend into the world of men because of gender expectations. Universal stereotypes make women very effective weapons in the world of intelligence and espionage. Few have studied and fewer still appreciate the contributions of women in this field. This course introduces attendees to capable, cunning, and dedicated spies and heroines, some of whom made the ultimate sacrifice, from pre-Biblical times to the present 21st Century. We explore motivations, risk-taking, sacrifices, accomplishments and failures of women while debunking myths and the glamorization of the stereotypical female spy Mata Hari. Join us in the journey of significant contributions to the history of intelligence and espionage by women like Ana Montes, Ethel Rosenberg, Rose Greenhow, Lydia Darragh, Sara Edmonds, Virginia Hall, Ruth Werner, Lona Cohen, and many others.

4-Hour Seminar

Taught by Connie Huff

This presentation will explore both current and past threats to our nation’s economic security, including the following topics:

• Industrial espionage by foreign companies

• Target of US intellectual property by the intelligence services of China, Russia, other adversaries, and some allies

• Recent cases prosecuted by DOJ using the Economic Espionage Law of 1996

4-Hour Seminar

Taught by Connie Huff

This seminar explores the evolution of cryptology, identifying and discussing the critical importance of ciphers, codes, cryptanalysis, and invisible ink in diplomacy and conflicts from the American Revolution to the present. We will discuss the impact and lessons learned from both our cryptologic successes and our failures.

4-Hour Seminar

Taught by Connie Huff

In Russian, активные мероприятия, is a term used to describe political warfare conducted by the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation. The term dates to the 1920s and includes espionage, propaganda, sabotage, and assassination operations. The mission goals of AM are based on foreign policy objectives of the Soviet and Russian governments and (continued) today to be run by the Putin government.

From its beginning, the USSR required a powerful intelligence and security organization to collect HUMINT and conduct operations to exert influence, mislead, disrupt, and weaken the foreign policies of their numerous adversaries. The SVR, FSB, and GRU, continue to excel at classic intelligence collection operations, but this mission is frequently subordinated to the chief goal of soviet intelligence agencies – the subversion of adversaries, through the implementation of AM.

Active measures are both the overt and covert tactics of political warfare and include: the creation and funding of front groups and organizations: overt and covert media manipulation; disinformation: forgeries; the infiltration of political parties, advocacy organizations, and movements; the “Kompromat” of officers of adversarial governments and their occasional assassinations. Modern advances in technology, cyber capabilities, the use of Hacker proxies, and the expansion of social media have only increased the reach, speed, and impact of AM operations.

4-Hour Seminar

Taught by Dan Mulvenna

An overview of NSA’s British partner – GCHQ, the UK’s SIGINT service. Beginning with GCHQ operations in WWII we will examine the following: GCHQ’s VENONA operations; the Five Eyes and CAZAB cooperation between English-speaking intelligence services; examples of how British SIGINT has assisted senior police officers in their decision-making process; and current British SIGINT collection operations against Islamist Extremists. We will also name several recently identified Soviet spies until recently known only by their VENONA code names.

4-Hour Seminar

Taught by Dan Mulvenna

A highly classified “forum” in which the most senior counterintelligence leadership of the intelligence services of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the United States, and Great Britain met periodically to exchange/discuss the latest information and cooperate relating to KGB and GRU operational activities. Created in 1964 by James Angleton, then the Central Intelligence Agency’s chief of counterintelligence, the service’s leadership met periodically in secure locations in their respective countries.

Coordinated counterintelligence programs and activities, both jointly and individually, were carried out by indoctrinated, compartmented operational personnel in each service. Indoctrination into this exclusive group was governed by strict rules. Proposed candidates were screened by all five services. A single “blackball” objection from any service was sufficient to exclude any candidate. CAZAB’s existence was revealed publicly for the first time by senior MI5 officer Peter Wright in his 1986 book Spy Catcher.

Subsequently, slightly more was revealed by Stella Remington, a former Chief of MI5, in her memoir Open Secret. The name CAZAB was subsequently changed. Presented by a CAZAB-indoctrinated operational officer, this presentation will take you inside CAZAB and detail a number of their counterespionage operations targeting the Russian services.

4-Hour Seminar

Taught by Dan Mulvenna

This overview presentation is based on a broad array of Russian sources, including interviews with both KGB defectors and retired KGB intelligence officers. It is also documented by the Official History of Russian Foreign Intelligence [Five volumes; Published 2003]; “The History of Soviet State Security Organs” published by the KGB F.E. Dzerzhinskiy Red Banner Higher School in 1977, classified TOP SECRET, and “The Mitrokhin Archive”, a vast collection of classified KGB documents smuggled out of Russian in 1992, with MI6 assistance, by the defecting KGB Chief Archivist, Col. Vasilie Mitrokhin.

In addition to these Russian documents and memoirs, this seminar is further augmented by the presenter’s detailed interviews of a number of IOs who served in the KGB elements discussed and/or were involved in the described activities and operations. In particular, the presentation will focus on the activities/operations and personnel of the little-known but important Group North, and the Coordination Unit of Directorate K, both of which directly targeted the “Main Adversary, ” (US intelligence agencies) and our allied intelligence service with recruitment operations, Double Agents, and Operational Games.

4-Hour Seminar

Taught by Dan Mulvenna

This course will examine the impact of intelligence on the conduct of war by nation-states. It will explore the role of intelligence in the preparation, conduct, and cessation of armed conflict. The course traces the evolution of modern military organizations and the use of intelligence in their past success and failures. It will consider the strengths and weaknesses of the various intelligence collection disciplines on the conduct of military operations and seek to understand how factors other than intelligence can affect the decision-making process.

4-Hour Seminar

Taught by Cindy Storer

Focus on the operational doctrine of the Russian intelligence services that target Western intelligence agencies - “Operativnaya Ingra” (Aggressive” Operational Games”). Participants will study both Russian and Western CI doctrine and tradecraft, including a series of inter-related Soviet intelligence operations involving the recruitment and handling of “penetrations” (Moles), double agents, and recruited agents.

4-Hour Seminar

Taught by Dan Mulvenna

This module will focus on the Russian Intelligence Services’ long use of illegals in foreign espionage operations. The concept of the illegal intelligence officer will be defined, placed in a historical context, and described in detail using a wide variety of case examples. Module topics: the profile of an illegal, their mission, training, targeting, and field COVCOM; the role of “the Centre” (SVRHQ in Moscow) in illegal operations; the role of the “Rezidentura” in Russian embassies; the evolution of illegal tradecraft, agent handling, communications with the Centre and support from Line N officers; the vulnerabilities of the illegal, including historical tradecraft and operational failures.

4-Hour Seminar

Taught by Dan Mulvenna

This presentation will explore the cases of Aldrich Ames, Brian Kelley, Felix Bloch, and Robert Hanssen investigations. After the arrest of AMES (a KGB spy inside CIA) in Feb 1994, it became apparent that there was at least one more “penetration” of the USIC. This module will discuss the initially misguided counterintelligence operations by the FBI which eventually identified Robert Hanssen, an FBI agent, and one of the most damaging KGB penetrations of the USIC, as that mole.

4-Hour Seminar

Taught by Dan Mulvenna

This seminar will present a general overview of the Chinese espionage threat to the US, the organization of their intelligence services, their intelligence doctrine and tactics. It will then pivot to focus on the Los Angeles FBI’s Chinese-American double agent, Katrina Leung, her access, her recruitment by the FBI, her intimate involvement with two senior FBI counterintelligence agents and the court cases that followed her unmasking as a Chinese agent.

4-Hour Seminar

Taught by Dan Mulvenna

“The Cuban intelligence service has always been against the United States. Exclusively. All the other countries where they work, they do it to direct the activity against the United States.” - 1982 Senate Testimony, Gerardo Peraza, Cuban Defector

Beginning in January 1959 when Fidel Castro seized power in Cuba to the present day, the Cuban Directorate of Intelligence (DI) (formerly DGI) has had one dedicated intelligence target: America. This course introduces the Cuban intelligence service through penetrations of America’s intelligence apparatus and government entities by spies and double agents, and studies America’s counterintelligence responses to this threat. We will discuss recruitment techniques, tradecraft, and missions, illustrated by rich case examples. The Cubans successfully used illegal agents embedded in our society to spot, assess, and target Americans, as well as collect intelligence. The DI has proven its mettle through several long-term penetrations of the US Government and military such as Ana Belen Montes; Kendall Myers; and a stable of dozens of double agents who tied up valuable American intelligence resources, time, and manpower for over two decades. They have been successful with their Active Measures Department whose goal is the manipulation of worldwide public opinion. Case examples demonstrate the dedication, professionalism, and capabilities of this historically underestimated intelligence service when conducting espionage against our nation.

4-Hour Seminar

Taught by Constance Huff

A review of the Hanssen case from a “lessons learned” perspective focusing on previously unexplained details of the tradecraft he used from the late 1970s until his arrest in 2001, the massive damage to US National Security he caused, and the FBI tradecraft used to identify, arrest and obtain his guilty plea.

4-Hour Seminar

Taught by Constance Huff

In Oct 1974 Colonel Oleg Gordievsky began spying for MI6. Nine years later he was recalled to Moscow from London where he had been acting chief of the KGB's Rezidentura. In May 1985, he reluctantly returned to Russia and received an extremely hostile reception from the KGB. His apartment had been searched, he was drugged, subjected to lengthy interrogations, but refused to confess. He was able to fly a distress signal to his M16 handlers, which activated a complex exfiltration plan. This module will discuss in detail what happened next!

4-Hour Seminar

Taught by Dan Mulvenna

This presentation provides an overview of the most damaging US spy cases over the last 4 decades. Each case will focus on: his or her motivations; agent handling and tradecraft utilized by the adversary service; how the traitor was discovered; security failures and lessons learned; and finally, an assessment of damage done to our national security.

4-Hour Seminar

Taught by Dan Mulvenna