Instructors and Staff
Constance Huff
Constance “Connie” Huff, a retired US Army military intelligence officer and graduate of the FBI National Academy, has 24 years of field experience in counterintelligence and espionage investigations.
Huff was the Senior CI Investigator who led the team that identified, investigated, interrogated, and ensured the conviction of an Army soldier of spying for Iraq during Operation Desert Shield/Storm. The successful conclusion of this case resulted in Huff being named the Department of Defense "Investigator of the Year” in 1992. Huff later served as a Senior Instructor at the US Army Advanced Counterintelligence Training Course, training DoD military and civilian special agents in advanced CI skills.
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Gina Bennett
Gina Bennett is a retired CIA counterterrorism specialist and member of the Senior Analytic Service who served for 34 years in the Intelligence Community and authored the first warnings in the 1990s about the growing danger from al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden.
Bennett is currently an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University’s Center for Security Studies and has written numerous articles for a variety of journals, including Joint Force Quarterly and Studies in Conflict and Terrorism. Bennett's media and publications can be viewed here.
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Cynthia Storer
Cynthia “Cindy” Storer, was an all-source analyst for the CIA from 1986 to 2007. She was assigned to the Counterterrorism Center from 1995 to 2007 and was promoted to the Senior Analytic Service. She was the principal drafter of CTC’s portion of a major CIA publication for Congress, was the CIA representative to numerous inter-agency task forces, and was part of a team that developed and taught the CIA’s first terrorism analysis course. Storer is also a consultant to the International Spy Museum in Washington DC and is an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University and the University of Texas-El Paso. She was awarded her BA with Honors by The College of William and Mary in 1986 and an MA from The Catholic University of America in 1992.
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Michael Coyne
Michael “Mike” Coyne is a career counterintelligence analyst, who retired from the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He started his federal service in 1990 as a Presidential Management Intern (now Fellow) working on budget formulation and justification for the FBI, including the supplemental funding request for resources during the first Persian Gulf War.
He started his intelligence career in 1992, assigned to a mix of strategic and tactical counterintelligence analysis projects for several functional issues and geographic regions as the FBI assessed the post-Cold War foreign intelligence threat.
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Professor Emeritus
Daniel Mulvenna
Daniel “Dan” Mulvenna is a retired senior officer in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police’s Security Service, who worked a variety of counterintelligence cases and was for 18 years a senior security executive in two, multi-national oil companies.
Mulvenna has not only worked major espionage cases as a field officer, but managed a diverse multinational professional staff of security managers, investigators, analysts, and technical specialists who provided security and operational support to the senior management of two Global 500 oil companies in over 50 countries, many of them operating in high-risk environments.
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