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The Association of Former Intelligence Officers (AFIO) presents this website to serve our members and visitors as a portal to the activities of AFIO and other US intelligence
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AFIO SPRING LUNCHEON
Intelligence Yin -- Yang
THURSDAY, 1 April 2010
1 p.m. speaker: Seymour M. Hersh, Controversial, prize-winning investigative journalist/author who writes on intelligence issues, author of
Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib
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11 a.m. speaker: Marc A. Thiessen, Equally controversial, new Washington Post reporter, Writer/Commentator, Former Bush White House & Pentagon Chief Speechwriter, author of the acclaimed, newly released
Courting Disaster: How the CIA Kept America Safe and How Barack Obama Is Inviting the Next Attack
Crowne Plaza Hotel, Tysons Corner, VA
Check in for badge pickup at 10:30 a.m.
Marc Thiessen at 11 a.m.
Lunch at Noon
Seymour Hersh at 1 p.m.
Event closes at 2 p.m.
Register here.
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Registration OPEN for this CIA - LBJ Library Co-Hosted Conference
Friday, 16 April 2010 - Austin, Texas -
CIA/LBJ Library Co-Host Conference on The Czech Invasion. Reception follows event.
REGISTER HERE
EVENT LOCATION: LBJ Library and Museum
2313 Red River St.
Austin, TX 78705
One block west of I-35 (between MLK and 26th Street)
Free parking
Hold these Dates - for Two Other CIA Co-Hosted Conferences
16 June 2010 - Independence, Missouri - CIA/Harry S. Truman Library/Woodrow Wilson Center Co-Host Conference "The Korean War, the Armistice, and the Search for Peace on the Korean Peninsula" Event falls on 60th Anniversary
of The Korean War. Registration on AFIO website will open mid-April. Announcement of CIA document release including special booklet/DVD handouts to attendees, includes roundtable discussion –Invasion and Intervention: What the U.s. Intelligence Community Knew and Who They Told - chaired by Clayton Laurie, with 3 other historians; Reception at Truman Library
Late October 2010 - Fairfax, Virginia - CIA/George Mason University Co-Host a "Directors of Central Intelligence" Conference. Event will feature just released papers of the early DCIs, will include special panels, speakers, and special reception.
For all three events above, current AFIO members will receive special invitations and registration instructions. Details to follow.
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Careers In Intelligence
AFIO'a new booklet for high school and college students considering careers in the U.S. Intelligence Community.
Careers webpage
Careers Booklet in PDF Format
Intelligence Training Opportunities for High School Students
 The National Security & Intelligence conference, hosted by LeadAmerica, provides high achieving students with the opportunity to build real world career skills and analyze leadership attributes within the environment of our nation’s capital. For ten days, students examine historic and current challenges to National Security, while understanding the roles and methods of diplomacy and intelligence through focused workshops on Iran, the Kashmir Crisis, and the Cuban Missile Crisis. In addition, students analyze issues such as information sharing, the origins of terrorism, intelligence ethics and the proliferation of WMD’s, while also attending briefings at the U.S. State Department and the Saudi Arabian Embassy. Students visit the Pentagon and the International Spy Museum and participate in an engaging Career Planning Seminar, which exposes them to career tracks and the requisite training for the fields of Intelligence and National Security. Students also complete LeadAmerica’s skill building curriculum, which fosters necessary skills such as teambuilding, time management, and communication, culminating in the formulation of a personal mission and vision statement.
To learn more about LeadAmerica and the National Security & Intelligence conference please visit http://www.lead-america.org/conferences/cslc/intelligence.asp or contact an Admissions Counselor at 866.FYI.LEAD.
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Friday, 12 March 2010 – San Francisco, CA – The AFIO Jim Quesada Chapter hosts Michael Rinn, Vice President/Program Director for the Missile Defense Systems Division at The Boeing Company.
 He will be discussing the Airborne Laser Program. RSVP required. The meeting will be held at United Irish Cultural Center, 2700 45th Avenue, San Francisco (between Sloat and Wawona). 11:30 AM no host cocktails; noon - luncheon. $25 member rate with advance reservation and payment; $35 non-member. E-mail RSVP to Mariko Kawaguchi (please indicate chicken or fish): afiosf@aol.com and mail check made out to "AFIO" to: Mariko Kawaguchi, P.O. Box 117578 Burlingame, CA 94011
13 March 2010, 10 am to 1 pm - Coral Gables, FL - AFIO Miami Chapter hosts talk on FUTURE WARS by Dr. John Alexander.
Please save the date. Dr. John Alexander, author of Future Wars, will be leading a presentation and discussion.
Event to be held at the Hyatt Coral Gables. For further information contact chapter president Tom Spencer at trsmiami@aol.com
Tuesday, 13 April 2010, 5 p.m. - Hampton Roads, VA - The AFIO Norm Forde Hampton Roads Chapter - to hear Carl Finstrom on Stella Polaris.
AFIO member Carl Finstrom will present, "Stella Polaris: The Exfiltration of Finnish COMINT Material"- The evacuation of the Finnish Intelligence Service from Finland to Sweden in Sep 1944.
Finstrom is an AFIO Member and Past President, Christopher Wren Association.
Stella Polaris was the code name for a secret plan developed by the Finnish Intelligence Service for their evacuation to Sweden in the final phase of World War Two. The plan was coordinated with the Swedish counterpart intelligence organizations in June 1944 after the Soviets resumed a massive offensive. By the end of June there was a real danger of a Soviet breakthrough and Soviet occupation of Finland. The Finns sought to relocate their intelligence assets to neutral Sweden so that they could continue the fight working with a significant Finnish stay-behind force. Finns stored weapons and ammunition at hundreds of locations to support a stay-behind force of at least 50,000 resistance personnel. The Stella Polaris story is of great interest to cryptologic historians. The story of the evacuation of the Finnish Military Intelligence Branch from Finland to Sweden after the signing of the ceasefire with the USSR in Sept 1944 is perhaps the most extraordinary event in the history of communications intelligence
Free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served. RSVP: Melissa Saunders at mwsaunders@cox.net
Location: Main Meeting Room of Tabb Library, York County. Directions:
From Norfolk take I-64 West. Merge onto US-17 North via Exit 258B toward Yorktown. Follow US-17 North approximately 2.2 miles to Victory Blvd/VA-171 East. Turn right onto Victory Blvd/VA-171 East. Turn right at the next traffic light onto Hampton Hwy/VA-134 South. Turn right at the next traffic light onto Long Green Blvd. Tabb Library is on the immediate right. It is across the street from the Victory YMCA.
From Williamsburg take I-64 East. Merge onto Victory Blvd/VA-171 East via Exit 256B. Follow Victory Blvd/VA-171 East approximately 2 miles. Turn right onto Hampton Hwy/VA-134 South. Turn right at the next traffic light onto Long Green Blvd. Tabb Library is on the immediate right. It is across the street from the Victory YMCA |
18 March 2010, 11:30 am - Colorado Springs, CO - AFIO Rocky Mountain Chapter hears Bryan Cunningham on "National At Risk."
Talk to occur at the Air Force Academy, Falcon Club. Markle Foundation's Bryan Cunningham speaks on "Nation at Risk." Cunningham is with the Markle Foundation Task Force on National Security in the Information Age. RSVP to Tom Van Wormer at robsmom@pcisys.net
20 March 2010, 2:00 p.m. - Kennebunk, Maine - The AFIO Maine Chapter hosts Dr. Terence Roehrig speaking on ASIA-PACIFIC CHALLENGES AND THE U.S.
Dr. Roehrig, Associate Professor of National Security Studies at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, RI, will address economic, political, and security issues in the region and how they will affect the U.S. He will discuss the direction of China's rise, and the roles played by India, Japan, and the two Koreas. Dr. Roehrig travels frequently to the region doing research and will travel to Japan later this spring in connection with work on a new book. The meeting will be held at the Kennebunk Free Library, 112 Main Street, Kennebunk. The public is invited. For information call 207-985-2392
Thursday, 25 March 2010, 6 p.m. - New York, NY - AFIO Metro NY Chapter hosts U.S. Secret Agent who specialized in Explosives and Codes
The AFIO New York Metro Chapter Thursday evening meeting will feature Dr. John Behling, one of the last surviving members of the forerunner agency of CIA [the Office of Strategic Services], who will tell of his training in explosives and codes, his being dropped behind enemy lines, his work with the Resistance, and the post-war years in the Occupied Zones. Of special interest is his eyewitness account of his visit to the Mauthausen Extermination Camp, and his subsequent search for escaping Nazis, hidden assets and war criminals.
Many of these experiences will be in a yet-to-be-published memoir on his distinguished wartime service. He also spent many years working for the U.S. Department of State.
This is a first-hand account with remarkable -- and chilling -- details that no film or printed work can convey in the same manner. Do not miss it.
Location: University Club, 9th Floor. $40 pp; $20 students/military
No reservations required.
For further information contact Jerry Goodwin, Chapter President, at
347-334-1503 or afiometro@yahoo.com
Wednesday, 31 March 2010, 8 p.m. - Coral Gables, FL - AFIO Miami Chapter hosts Keith Thomson in special reading from "Once a Spy" - and presentation of Microdrones [or did you think that was an ordinary insect on your ceiling?]
Keith Thomson will read from his forthcoming spy novel: Once A Spy, at Books & Books in Coral Gables. The Microdrones have offered to debut their 2.5LB drones beforehand for AFIO members, as well. Microdrones have been used to extraordinary success by police in the UK (FAA regulations are thwarting their use in the U.S.; meanwhile radio-controlled helicopters and airplanes up to 55LBs have essentially no restraints). Clearly an event not to miss. For further information contact chapter President Tom Spencer at trsmiami@aol.com
1 April 2010 - Tysons Corner, VA - AFIO SPRING LUNCHEON - features Seymour Hersh and morning speaker Marc A. Thiessen, Washington Post reporter, Writer/Commentator, Former Bush White House & Pentagon Chief Speechwriter, author of the acclaimed, newly released bestseller... Courting Disaster: How the CIA Kept America Safe
and How Barack Obama Is Inviting the Next Attack - at Crowne Plaza Hotel, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Register here. |
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OTHER IMPORTANT UPCOMING EVENTS ....
Thursday, 18 March 2010, 12 noon – 1 pm - Washington, DC - Author John Kiriakou speaks on his new book: The Reluctant Spy: My Secret Life in the CIA’s War on Terror
The CIA has come under sharp criticism for its handling of 9/11 and the enhanced interrogation techniques used in Afghanistan and the Iraq War. Former CIA operative John Kiriakou, who was involved in the capture of one of Osama Bin Laden’s closest aides, Abu Zubaydah, wrote The Reluctant Spy to set the record straight. Hear his often brutally honest account of firsthand experience with the controversy over waterboarding, the pressures from both inside and outside the agency, and the planning for the Iraq War. Now a senior investigator on the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations focusing on the Middle East, South Asia, and international terrorism, Kiriakou will share his insider’s view of the weaknesses and the unsung strengths of the CIA. Free! No registration required! Join the author for an informal chat and book signing at the Spy Museum. Further information at www.spymuseum.org
Monday, 5 April 2010; 6:30 pm - Washington, DC - "An Evening with Nigel West: Secrets from the Cambridge Spies" at the International Spy Museum
“Brazilian Embassy: The agent is a butler, thirty-nine years of age.”— from a list of MI5 assets which Anthony Blunt forwarded to Stalin’s intelligence service in 1945
Imagine if a foreign power were to learn everything about your country’s most valuable assets, its plans of attack, opinions, and strategies. That is exactly the position that Britain was in when the Cambridge Five were operating as secret agents of Soviet intelligence. The Five—Kim Philby, Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, Anthony Blunt, and John Cairncross—penetrated Britain’s principal intelligence service and foreign office. Blunt was actually in charge of one of Britain’s richest sources of information, code name TRIPLEX. In the KGB archives, Nigel West, renowned British historian of military intelligence and author of TRIPLEX: Secrets from the Cambridge Spies, discovered the secret documents sent by the five spies to the Soviets. Drawing on these documents, West will reveal precisely what was compromised by the British traitors and what the self-directed spies thought would be of special interest to Moscow.
Tickets: $12.50 per person Register at www.spymuseum.org
Wednesday, 14 April 2010; 6:30 pm - Washington, DC - "Striking Remotely: Predator Drones" at the International Spy Museum
“The only game in town.” — Leon Panetta, CIA director, May 2009
Predator drones were initially developed for unmanned aerial reconnaissance. They are now the go-to weapon used against al-Qaeda and the Taliban for targeted assassinations in Pakistan and Afghanistan by the CIA. This controversial program has reportedly been successful, but has also generated anti-American sentiment in those countries. How does the program work—both technically and politically? Why is the CIA tasked with managing this program from the U.S.? What is the chain of command? What is the legal/moral status of targeted assassinations? And what is the cost to the U.S. image from “human collateral damage” with this program? Join distinguished panelists for a provocative exploration of the covert drone program: Peter Bergen, senior research fellow, American Strategy Program, co-director, Counterterrorism Strategy Initiative at the New America Foundation, and co-author of a October 2009 analysis of drone strikes in Pakistan; Bruce Riedel, senior fellow, foreign policy, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, Brookings Institution, former CIA officer, and advisor to the Obama Administration; and Tom Parker, policy director, (Counter)Terrorism and Human Rights, Amnesty International USA.
Tickets: $12.50 per person Register at www.spymuseum.org
MORE SPY MUSEUM PROGRAMS listed here... |
Other Events of interest:
Wednesday, 10 March 2010, 6:30 p.m. - Washington, DC - A Weapons of Mass Disruption Program from Cold War to Cyber War featuring Gail Harris, Naval Intelligence Officer
WHAT: “I decided to be unorthodox."—Gail Harris
When Gail Harris was assigned by the U.S. Navy to a combat intelligence job in 1973, she became the first woman to hold such a position. By the time of her retirement, she was the highest ranking African American female in the Navy. Her 28-year career included hands-on leadership in the intelligence community during every major conflict from the Cold War to Desert Storm to Kosovo. Captain Harris was at the forefront of one of the newest challenges: cyber warfare, developing intelligence policy for the Computer Network Defense and Computer Network Attack for the Department of Defense. Harris, author of A Woman's War: The Professional and Personal Journey of the Navy's First African American Female Intelligence Officer, will share her unique experience providing intelligence support to military operations while also battling the status quo, office bullies, and politics. She’ll also offer her perspective on the way intelligence is used and sometimes misused.
WHERE: International Spy Museum, 800 F St NW, Washington, DC, Gallery Place/Chinatown Metrorail Station. TICKETS: $12.50. Advance Registration required. Tickets are non-refundable. To register: order online; or purchase tickets in person at the International Spy Museum.
11-12 March 2010 - Washington, DC - 5th International Conference on the Ethics of National Security Intelligence
International Intelligence Ethics Association (IIEA) and Georgetown University School of Continuing Studies co-host this event featuring these two keynote speakers: Jody Williams, Nobel Peace Prize Recipient 1997, and John Inglis. Deputy Director, National Security Agency
Topics for the conference will include: * Ethics of CyberWarfare and Security;
* Intelligence support for counterinsurgency operations;
* Military Anthropology and the Ethics of Espionage;
* Intelligence and the War Against Terror: The Israeli Experience;
* A Case Study: A Course of "Ethics and Intelligence" with a
Multi-Discipline Approach;
* The Ethics of Human Intelligence Collection: Ethical Problems and Issues Involved in the Recruitment and Use of Informants by Foreign Intelligence Services;
* Torture and Intelligence
* Justum Speculatum: Evaluating the September 2008 Attorney General's
Guidelines for Domestic FBI Operations through the Lenses of Just War, Just Peacemaking and Just Policing Theory;
* A Case for Constraints: Deontic Moral Checks on the Unrestricted Right of Intelligence Gathering;
* Human Rights and the CIA: The Case of the Assassination of Patrice
Lumumba;
* The Ethics of Intelligence and The Just War Principle of Noncombatant Immunity;
* Can We Ethically Communicate the Threat?;
* Identifying and Managing Corruption and Other Misconduct Risks in Counter-Terrorism Policing: Case Study of New South Wales Police Counter Terrorist Coordination Command;
* The Ethics of Intelligence Support to Military Operations;
* Cultural Intelligence for Winning the Peace;
* Challenges of The New Committee for the Oversight of The Kosovo Intelligence Agency;
* Using Private Corporations to Conduct Intelligence Activities;
* The Ethics Of Surveillance: Suspicious Activity Reporting and the Production;
* of US Domestic Intelligence and
* Privatized Information Gathering, Just War, and Morality.
-- Also available for preview/sale will be new publications on ethics, intelligence, and national security from several publishers.
-- Register for your hotel room at the Georgetown University Hotel and Conference Center (on-line or by phone) and receive the Special Conference Rate.
Rate for event: $450.00 per person. Use code "eiic2010org" for $100 discount.
Event location: 3800 Reservoir Street NW, Washington, DC 20007
Conference and Hotel Registration: http://scs.georgetown.edu/ethics
Conference Questions : conference2010@intelligence-ethics.org
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- Special Opportunity to Attend
a New Iran Training Program
The CI Centre announces a special opportunity for current US Government employees, active-duty military, and government contractors who directly support the US National Security Community to attend two (5-day) foundational courses studying Iran.
The first course gives attendees an introductory and comprehensive understanding of Iranian Culture, History, Leadership, Geography, Military, Policy, and Security.
The focus of the second course is on Irans national security apparatus to include policy, strategic vision, planning, and operational methods. Additional Iranian contextual elements provided in this second course include knowledge of Irans government institutions to provide informed insight to US counterintelligence efforts.
The training is divided into two nonconsecutive 5-day sessions and will be held at the CI Centre training facility in Alexandria, VA. The first week course is a prerequisite in order to attend the second course.
Attendance to this in-depth, ground-breaking foundational curriculum is possibly at no cost to the attendee or the US Government entity where they are employed. Register as soon as possible as class sizes are limited to 30 people.
If you are a current US Government employee, active-duty military or government contractor working in the US National Security Community and have a professional interest in or concern with Iran please complete this form: http://cicentre.com/training/1700.html. Once received, we'll let you know whether you may be eligible to attend and send you more information about each course and additional details (such as course dates).
If you have authorized access to the Intelink system, you can see additional details on this first of its kind training opportunity and register immediately by going to here. - (Link will not work outside Intelink system)
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