Latest Updates on Speakers & Topics for
CIRA and AFIO's 40th Anniversary Conference
and
Celebration
25 - 26 August 2015
CIRA (Central Intelligence Retirees Association) and
AFIO (Association of Former Intelligence Officers) will be holding a joint conference and celebration of our 40th anniversaries
on 25-26 August 2015.
CIA Director John Brennan; Donna Hansen, Chairman of CIA Publications Review Board; Dean Boyd, Director of CIA Office of Public Affairs; The Honorable Charles E. Allen, Former Assistant Director of Central Intelligence for Collection, CIA (1998 –2005); Sue Bromley, former Associate DD/CIA; Bill Harlow and Joseph DeTrani, former Directors of OPA; Winston Wiley, former DDI; Scott White, former EXDIR; Michael Sulick, former Director, National Clandestine Service; John Sano, former DD/National Clandestine Service; Sean Roche, Associate Deputy Director of CIA for Digital Innovation; Fred Turco, former D/Information Operations Center; Robert Wallace, former Director, Office of Technical Services; Sarah Botsai, former NSA, Senior Cryptologic Executive Service, Deputy Director, White House Situation Room, IC Staff, ADD/Plans and Policy; George Jameson, CIA Senior Counsel, Director of CIA policy & coordination office, Deputy Director of Congressional Affairs; David Robarge, Senior Historian, Center for Study of Intelligence; Frederick Hitz, CIA Legislative Counsel, operations officer and manager, and the first statutory CIA Inspector General, currently Sr Fellow (Batten School) and Adj Professor (Law School) at U of Virginia; Dawn Eilenberger, CIA Deputy General Counsel, CIA Director of Finance, NGA Inspector General, current Assistant DNI for Policy & Strategy; Robert L. Deitz, former Councilor to CIA director Hayden, NSA General Counsel, Acting NGA GC, Acting DOD deputy GC, Intelligence, current Professor of Public Policy, George Mason University; Toni Hiley, Director and Curator, CIA Museum; and CIRA President Charles Campbell (CIA Deputy Inspector General, Senior DO operations officer and manager); and AFIO President James Hughes, former ADDO, National Clandestine Service.
Day One - Tuesday, 25 August: This celebration coincides with the next CIA Annuitant Reunion on 25 August where many CIRA and AFIO members, who are CIA retirees, will be in attendance.
AFIO and CIRA members who are CIA annuitants have been invited directly by email by CIA and should have already signed up. If you retired from CIA, did not receive an email, you are welcome to sign up for one or both days of the conference using the forms below.
PLEASE NOTE: As of 7 August, all spaces for Day One have been taken. Only Day Two - daytime and evening - activities are available at this time.
Day Two - Wednesday, 26 August: The conference expands and continues on Day Two at a local Tysons, Virginia hotel, with many more CIA, CIRA, AFIO, and other IC speakers and panelists. This second day ends with a "Spies in Black Ties" Anniversary Reception and Awards Banquet. See list of speakers on Day One, above.
Day Two - Wednesday, 26 August: The
conference expands and continues on Day Two at the Sheraton Tysons Hotel, with many CIA, CIRA, AFIO, and other IC speakers and
panelists. Luncheon keynote address by Stephen Grey, UK Journalist/Reuters, author
of newly released, and highly praised... The New Spymasters: Inside the Modern World of Espionage
from the Cold War to the Global War on Terror. Ends with Q&A. “Throughout, The New Spymasters stays true to its remit, prioritizing and analyzing the human factor involved in intelligence gathering. Ultimately, Grey argues, for all the advances of and reliance upon technology, the man on the rock is as relevant as ever. Human intelligence is not the dying art it has been reckoned by some to be. For as long as the age-old motivations that fuel them endure, there will continue to be both a need and a role for the secret agent.” -- forthcoming review in Journal of International Security Affairs
This second day ends with a "Spies in Black Ties"™
Anniversary Reception and Awards Banquet with an address by The Honorable Charles E. Allen, who held a number of senior positions in the Intelligence Community including Assistant Director of Central Intelligence for Collection, Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis, Department of Homeland Security, Chairman of the National Intelligence Collection Board, and the National Intelligence Officer for Warning.
Invitation Letter to Members
Updated Agenda as of 24 August
Agenda for Day Two-Only is here
Registration has closed.
If you have questions, contact afio@afio.com
