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18 - 20 August 2010

AFIO National GREAT LAKES Intelligence Symposium

"Intelligence and National Security on the Great Lakes and Northern Border"

at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Cleveland, OH

Co-Hosted with the AFIO Northern Ohio Chapter

Includes presentations by U.S. Coast Guard on Great Lakes/Northern Border security;
National Air/Space Intelligence Center; Air Force Technical Applications Center; Ohio Aerospace Institute.
Includes Dinner/Cruise on Nautica Queen on Lake Erie.

Spies-in-Black-Ties Reception and Banquet

Make your reservations here.

Agenda is here.

To reserve rooms at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Cleveland, Ohio now at the $89/nite special event rate, use the following link: http://tinyurl.com/37frwnl

AFIO NATIONAL FALL LUNCHEON

FRIDAY, 24 September 2010

Noon speaker: Deputy Director Michael J. Morell, CIA

and

11 a.m. speaker: Speaker, T.B.A.

Check in for badge pickup at 10:30 a.m.
Morning Speaker gives address at 11 a.m.
Michael J. Morell, Deputy Director, CIA - gives address at noon
Lunch is served at 1 p.m.
Event closes at 2 p.m.

R E G I S T R A T I O N

EVENT LOCATION: The Crowne Plaza
1960 Chain Bridge Road • McLean, Virginia 22102
Driving directions here or use this link: http://tinyurl.com/8228kw

Registration limited HERE.

28 July 2010, 9 AM - 5 PM - Miami, FL - AFIO Members invited to FBI's INFRAGARD Meeting - Law Enforcement CI CT Issues and Careers in FBI

CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS: 09:30 - 10:00 AM, Welcoming Remarks
Eric S. Ackerman, PhD, InfraGard South Florida Chapter President.
Mr. Stewart L. Appelrouth, CPA, InfraGard Treasurer
SA Nelson J. Barbosa, InfraGard Coordinator/FBI Miami
10:00 - 11:00 AM - Mr. Sam Fadel, Florida Regional Field Investigator, Corporate Security Department
This presentation will focus on data breach investigations, specifically credit card/account number breaches. Defines the roles of the issuers, law enforcement and forensic experts.
11:15 -11:30 AM - FBI employment needs, SA Kathleen J. Cymbaluk, Miami FBI Recruiter
This presentation will discuss current hiring needs of the FBI and requirements on how to qualify and apply.
11:30 - 12:30 PM - Mr. Stewart Appelrouth and Mr. Ed Farath, CPA, Appelrouth/Farah & Co., P.A.
This presentation will focus on Financial Fraud, Specifically Ponzi Schemes.
12:30 - 01:45 PM - LUNCH (Food court available on campus)
01:45 - 02:15 PM - Richard Wickliffe, Team Manager, Special Investigation Unit, State Farm Insurance Companies
Will discuss Fraud, White Collar Financial Issues- and Possible Counterterrorism Implications.
02:15 - 03:15 PM - Randall C. Culp, Supervisory Special Agent, FBI
This presentation will discuss Health Care Fraud – Adapting Investigations and Prosecutions to deal with emerging trends.
03:30 - 04:30 PM - Gun Running from Broward and Palm Beaches Counties
Mark A. Hastbacka, Supervisory Special Agent, FBI
This presentation will touch on IRA gun running operation in the above counties from a counterterrorism investigation point-of view

LOCATION: Florida International University, Management Advanced Research Center, Room # 125, 11200 SW 8th St, Miami, FL 33199
RSVP Nelson Barbosa at FBI Miami Field Office: Nelson.Barbosa@ic.fbi.gov

CAREER OPPORTUNITY: Program Director, Criminal Justice & Intelligence,
University of Maryland
Graduate School of Management & Technology
12 - Month, Collegiate Faculty, Full Time

University of Maryland University College (UMUC) seeks a Program Director for its Criminal Justice and Intelligence Management Program in the Graduate School of Management and Technology. The new Director will join one of the largest online institutions in the world, serving a global student population. UMUC is one of 11 degree-granting institutions in the University System of Maryland (USM). Working adults, military personnel, and other students around the globe are achieving their academic goals through UMUC's innovative educational options, including online instruction, accelerated academic programs, and classroom-based courses taught during the daytime, evenings, and weekends. Currently, more than 34,000 students attend UMUC nationally, and an additional 35,000 students attend UMUC at on site classes in more than 23 countries throughout the world; about 50,000 students are active duty military, veterans, and their families. In 2009, UMUC had over 196,000 online course enrollments. The Program Director, Criminal Justice is responsible for providing administrative and academic support for the MSM/Criminal Justice and Intelligence Management specialization. Administrative support involves management of all faculty recruitment, hiring, and staffing for both academic areas, as well as general administrative oversight of faculty performance in the classroom. Academic support includes development of course content for the seven criminal justice specialization courses, as well as required onload teaching. In addition the director will assist in the administration of MGMT 610, a core course in the Master of Science of Management Degree and other duties as assigned by the Dean or Chair. To perform this position effectively requires knowledge of the criminal justice system and intelligence management, knowledge of the online learning environment, an understanding of and commitment to UMUC's mission. Skills required include the ability to effectively use the WebTycho platform and apply online and F2F pedagogical skills to support student learning, program development and implementation skills, excellent communication skills (written and verbal), problem-solving, systems thinking, and planning skills. A terminal degree in Criminal Justice or Intelligence or a related field is required. Successful graduate-level teaching experience and a minimum of five years of professional experience in the area of criminal justice and/or intelligence is required. Position requires excellent communication skills. Previous experience working with adult part-time students, and/or in distance education is also preferred. This position is available immediately. Salary will commensurate with experience and faculty rank. If interested, please submit a cover letter, curriculum vitae, salary history, and list of three professional references within your application. Cover letters and information should be addressed to: Candidate Search – Program Director, Criminal Justice & Intelligence University of Maryland University College UMUC offers an excellent benefits package to include tuition remission, a minimum of 28 days of leave, as well as a range of insurance options. Students and employees of UMUC must apply for this position viawww.umuc.edu/facultyrecruit.

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

A real espionage case. Do not miss the following...

Farewell - A movie based on spy Vladimir Vetrov

In Select Theaters July 2010 - New York and Los Angeles - July 23, 2010
Cast & Crew: Director: Christian Carion Producers: Christophe Rossignon, Bertrand Faivre, PHILIP BOEFFARD
Cast: WILLEM DAFOE, Guillaume Canet, EMIR KUSTURICA, ALEXANDRA MARIA LARA, Dapkunaite, Dina Korzun, David Soul, Fred Ward
Written by: Eric Raynaud
France 2009 | Run time: 112 min.
Director: Christian Carion | Language: French - English - Russian

In 1981, Colonel Grigoriev of the KGB (real name - Vladimir Vetrov), disenchanted with what the Communist ideal has become under Brezhnev, decides he is going to change the world…
Discreetly, he makes contact with a French engineer working for Thomson in Moscow and little by little passes on documents to him - mainly concerning the United States - containing information which would constitute the most important Cold War espionage operation known to date.
During a period of two years, French President, François Mitterrand, was to personally vet the documents supplied by this source in Moscow, to whom the French Secret Service gave the codename « Farewell ».
Then master of the White House, Ronald Reagan, set aside his reluctance to work with a French Socialist to put this unhoped-for information from the very heart of the KGB to use. Farewell would in fact decapitate the network which enabled the KGB to gain in-depth knowledge of scientific, industrial and military research in the West.
Once the USSR had been deprived of these precious sources of information, Ronald Reagan's announcement of the new « Star Wars » military programme sounded the death bell of the Soviet Union. The Berlin Wall would fall before the end of the 80s…
In his own way, Farewell managed to change the world, by avoiding traditional espionage methods too well known to the KGB and by not asking for any financial compensation whatsoever – much too capitalist for his taste. He simply followed his destiny, so that a new world might dawn for all his fellow Russians, but especially for his son.
A trailer of the film can be viewed at this link:
http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/independent/farewell/

More information about the case and film is available at: http://www.FarewellTheMovie.com

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28 July 2010, 9 AM - 5 PM - Miami, FL - AFIO Members invited to FBI's INFRAGARD Meeting - Law Enforcement CI CT Issues and Careers in FBI

CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS: 09:30 - 10:00 AM, Welcoming Remarks
Eric S. Ackerman, PhD, InfraGard South Florida Chapter President.
Mr. Stewart L. Appelrouth, CPA, InfraGard Treasurer
SA Nelson J. Barbosa, InfraGard Coordinator/FBI Miami
10:00 - 11:00 AM - Mr. Sam Fadel, Florida Regional Field Investigator, Corporate Security Department
This presentation will focus on data breach investigations, specifically credit card/account number breaches. Defines the roles of the issuers, law enforcement and forensic experts.
11:15 -11:30 AM - FBI employment needs, SA Kathleen J. Cymbaluk, Miami FBI Recruiter
This presentation will discuss current hiring needs of the FBI and requirements on how to qualify and apply.
11:30 - 12:30 PM - Mr. Stewart Appelrouth and Mr. Ed Farath, CPA, Appelrouth/Farah & Co., P.A.
This presentation will focus on Financial Fraud, Specifically Ponzi Schemes.
12:30 - 01:45 PM - LUNCH (Food court available on campus)
01:45 - 02:15 PM - Richard Wickliffe, Team Manager, Special Investigation Unit, State Farm Insurance Companies
Will discuss Fraud, White Collar Financial Issues- and Possible Counterterrorism Implications.
02:15 - 03:15 PM - Randall C. Culp, Supervisory Special Agent, FBI
This presentation will discuss Health Care Fraud – Adapting Investigations and Prosecutions to deal with emerging trends.
03:30 - 04:30 PM - Gun Running from Broward and Palm Beaches Counties
Mark A. Hastbacka, Supervisory Special Agent, FBI
This presentation will touch on IRA gun running operation in the above counties from a counterterrorism investigation point-of view

LOCATION: Florida International University, Management Advanced Research Center, Room # 125, 11200 SW 8th St, Miami, FL 33199
RSVP Nelson Barbosa at FBI Miami Field Office: Nelson.Barbosa@ic.fbi.gov

Saturday, 31 July 2010, 10 am - 12 noon - Coral Gables, FL - AFIO/Miami Police Department Counter-Terrorism Training

In cooperation with the City of Miami Police Dept, Office of Emergency Management & Homeland Security, Officer Marcos T. Perez, AFIO will be presenting a Counter-Terrorism Training and Program. "Operation Miami Shield." There is limited space available for this program.
Please RSVP with checks enclosed before July 21, 2010. There is a $10 charge for AFIO Members. Guests will be charged at $25 per person. Checks payable to "AFIO" and mailed to Tom Spencer at 999 Ponce de Leon Blvd Ste 510, Coral Gables, FL 33134

Saturday, 14 August 2010, 11 am - Orange Park, FL - AFIO Northern Florida Chapter hears expert on technology capabilities of FBI/DEA/ATF regarding air travel.

Social hour from 11:00 am, lunch at noon, and speaker and meeting to follow until 3:00 pm. This meeting's guest speaker will be Mr. Bob DeFrancesco, Security Chief at Jacksonville International Airport. In concert with Ken Nimmich, DeFrancesco will delve privately and confidentially into the technology requirements and capabilities of his systems. He will address successes and failures of both the technology and the dependency of interagency regimes, including the FBI, DEA, ATF, etc. Also in preparation for the meeting, there will be a review of the Nova video on NSA (www.youtube.com/ watch?v=ZWtEp3fLLvo) and 9/11 (www.youtube.com/ watch?v=8EiiZUUGQyI) ramp up from an interagency perspective. Chapter President Dane Baird applauds Bill Webb on this effort and hopes all members can watch the videos, twice if possible, prior to the meeting. Hopefully these are the right YouTube links to access these videos - let me know if not! For potential upcoming meetings, President Baird has uncovered some impressive resumes of generals and admirals living within reach of Ponte Vedra, including one who flew with the Nationalist Chinese Air Force. Think about it, and let us know if a special China program would be interesting – and we're sure that Bill could certainly enhance and enlighten such presentation(s).
RSVP right away for the 14 August 2010 meeting to Quiel at qbegonia@comcast.net or 904-545-9549. The cost will be $16 each, pay the Country Club at the event.

Thursday, 16 September 2010, 11:30 am - Colorado Springs, CO – The Rocky Mountain Chapter features speaker on terrorism.

The Rocky Mountain Chapter presents Sheriff Terry Maketa who will speak on legal issues involving El Paso County, crime statistics and give an update on terrorism. To be held at a new location the AFA... Eisenhower Golf Course Club House. Please RSVP to Tom VanWormer at robsmom@pcisys.net

Saturday, 25 September 2010, 10:30 am - Coral Gables, FL - "Management of Kidnap and Extortion Incidents" the topic at the AFIO Miami Chapter event.

This program is a seminar conducted by a former Intelligence Officer expert in the subject. More details to follow soon or email trsmiami@aol.com

OTHER IMPORTANT UPCOMING EVENTS ....

Thursday, 5 August 2010, noon - Washington, DC - "Silent Sentry: The Untold Story of the National Security Agency" - at the International Spy Museum

WHAT: With satellites to command, global phone tapping capabilities, and vast computer networks, the National Security Agency (NSA) monitors enemy states, terror suspects, and friendly nations alike. In The Secret Sentry, Matthew M. Aid traces the growth of the NSA from 1945 to the present through critical moments in its history, from the Cold War up to its ongoing involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq. Aid, a visiting fellow at the National Security Archives, explores the agency's connection to the Iraqi WMD intelligence failure when evidence that NSA officials called "ambiguous" was used as proof of Iraqi WMD capability. He also details the intense debate within the NSA over its growing role under the Bush administration to spy on U.S. citizens. Don't miss this overview of the dramatic evolution of this far-reaching spy agency.
WHERE: International Spy Museum, 800 F Street, NW, Metro: Gallery Place/Chinatown
TICKETS: free-of-charge! No registration required.

Wednesday, 11 August 2010, 6:30 pm - Washington, DC - "Uneasy Alliance: The CIA and ISI in Pakistan" - at the International Spy Museum

WHAT: As the U.S. hunts down Al Qaeda leaders in Pakistan, the CIA appears to be working closely with the Pakistan Intelligence Service, ISI. But the two services have a long and rocky history. While the ISI has helped with the capture of Afghan Taliban leaders, some reports suggest that they have released Taliban figures that they caught on their own. What is the future of this relationship? Are the CIA and ISI endgames compatible? Join this panel of experts to explore what's really happening on the ground in Pakistan and their predictions for the future: Farhana Ali, senior lecture, AFPAK Team, Booz, Allen & Hamilton; Seth Jones, RAND analyst and author of Counterinsurgency in Pakistan; and Shuja Nawaz, director, South Asia Center at the Atlantic Council of the United States.
WHERE: International Spy Museum, 800 F Street, NW, Metro: Gallery Place/Chinatown TICKETS: $12.50 Visit: www.spymuseum.org

Saturday, 2 October 2010, 6:30 pm - Washington, DC - William J. Donovan Award Dinner Honoring Ross Perot by The OSS Society

The OSS Society celebrates the historical accomplishments of the OSS during WWII through a William J. Donovan Award Dinner. This year the annual dinner honors Ross Perot. Event includes special performance by humorist Mark Russell. Black Tie/Dress Mess. Location: Mandarin Oriental Hotel, 1330 Maryland Ave SW, Washington, DC. By invitation. Tables of ten: $25,000; Table of ten: $15,000; Table of eight: $10,000; Table of Six: $5000; Seating of four: $3,000; One guest: $1,000. Some tickets available for $175 pp. Donations welcomed. Inquiries to The OSS Society at oss@osssociety.org

Other Events of interest:

Thursday-Friday 23-24 September 2010 - Harrisburg, PA - First Annual Intelligence Community Center for Academic Excellence (IC CAE) Symposium "Intelligence and Homeland Security: Policy and Strategy Implications" - The symposium is by Penn State Harrisburg.

SAVE THE DATE! Potential topics: • Careers in the intelligence community; • Cyber security and information; assurance; • Border security; • Critical infrastructure protection (CIP);
• Intelligence and information sharing – domestic and international; • Fusion centers; • Ethical issues in intelligence; • Operations security (OPSEC); • Terrorism; • Drug cartels; • Private sector and NGOs; • Public health; • Geospatial information; • Counter-proliferation.
Registration information and call for presentations/papers to follow.
Event location: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Hilton Hotel
Contact: Tom Arminio, tja12@psu.edu, tomarminio@gmail.com Mobile: 717-448-5377
or Kate Corbin Tompkins, katespa@psu.edu; Office: 717-948-6058; Mobile: 717-405-2022; Fax: 717-948-6484

29-30 September 2010 - Washington, DC - Conference on the American Experience in Southeast Asia, 1946-1975 by the U.S. Department of State.

The U.S. Department of State's Office of the Historian is pleased to invite AFIO members to a conference on the American Experience in Southeast Asia, 1946-1975, which will be held in the George C. Marshall Conference Center at the State Dept. The conference will feature a number of key Department of State personnel, both past and present. Those speaking will include:
* Former Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger
* Former Deputy Secretary of State John D. Negroponte
* Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard A. Holbrooke
The conference will include a panel composed of key print and television media personnel from the Vietnam period discussing the impact of the press on public opinion and United States policy. A number of scholarly panels featuring thought-provoking works by leading scholars will also take place. Registration information will be available at the State Dept website, http://history.state.gov, after August 1.

CALL FOR PAPERS - for 2011 NSA Conference
6 - 7 October 2011 - Laurel, MD - The NSA's Center for Cryptologic History hosts their Biennial Cryptologic History Symposium. 2011 theme: "Cryptology in War and Peace: Crisis Points in History."

Historians from the Center, the Intelligence Community, the defense establishment, and the military services, as well as distinguished scholars from American and foreign academic institutions, veterans of the profession, and the interested public all will gather for two days of reflection and debate on topics from the cryptologic past. The theme for the upcoming conference will be: “Cryptology in War and Peace: Crisis Points in History.” This topical approach is especially relevant as the year 2011 is an important anniversary marking the start of many seminal events in our nation’s military history. The events that can be commemorated are many.
Such historical episodes include the 1861 outbreak of the fratricidal Civil War between North and South. Nineteen forty-one saw a surprise attack wrench America into the Second World War. The year 1951 began with the fall of Seoul to Chinese Communist forces with United Nations troops retreating in the Korean War. In 1961, the United States began a commitment of advisory troops in Southeast Asia that would eventually escalate into the Vietnam War; that year also marked the height of the Cold War as epitomized by the physical division of Berlin. Twenty years later, a nascent democratic movement was suppressed by a declaration of martial law in Poland; bipolar confrontation would markedly resurge for much of the 1980s. In 1991, the United States intervened in the Persian Gulf to reverse Saddam Hussein’s aggression, all while the Soviet Union suffered through the throes of its final collapse. And in 2001, the nation came under siege by radical terrorism.
Participants will delve into the roles of signals intelligence and information assurance, and not just as these capabilities supported military operations. More cogently, observers will examine how these factors affected and shaped military tactics, operations, strategy, planning, and command and control throughout history. The role of cryptology in preventing conflict and supporting peaceful pursuits will also be examined. The panels will include presentations in a range of technological, operational, organizational, counterintelligence, policy, and international themes.
Past symposia have featured scholarship that set out new ways to consider out cryptologic heritage, and this one will be no exception. The mix of practitioners, scholars, and the public precipitates a lively debate that promotes an enhanced appreciation for the context of past events. Researchers on traditional and technological cryptologic topics, those whose work in any aspect touches upon the historical aspects of cryptology as defined in its broadest sense, as well as foreign scholars working in this field, are especially encouraged to participate.
The Symposium will be held at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory’s Kossiakoff Center, in Laurel, Maryland, a location central to the Baltimore and Washington, D.C., areas. As has been the case with previous symposia, the conference will provide unparalleled opportunities for interaction with leading historians and distinguished experts. So please make plans to join us for either one or both days of this intellectually stimulating conference.
Interested persons are invited to submit proposals for a potential presentation or even for a full panel. While the topics can relate to this year’s theme, all serious work on any aspect of cryptologic history will be considered. Proposals should include an abstract for each paper and/or a statement of session purpose for each panel, as well as biographical sketches for each presenter. To submit proposals or form more information on this conference, contact Dr. Kent Sieg, the Center’s Symposium Executive Director, at 301-688-2336 or via email at kgsieg@nsa.gov.

PLAN NOW FOR THIS UPCOMING EVENTS....

13 - 20 November 2010 - Ft. Lauderdale, FL - SPYCRUISE® to Grand Turks, Turks & Caicos; San Juan, PR; St. Thomas, USVI; and Half Moon Cay, Bahamas - with National Security Speakers Discussing "Current & Future Threats: Policies, Problems and Prescriptions."

SPYCRUISE®: A National Security Educational Lecture/Seminar Series
The CI Centre and Henley-Putnam University are sponsoring a new SpyCruise®, November 13-20, 2010. Join them on the Holland American MS Eurodam as they set sail from Ft. Lauderdale, FL to the Grand Turks, San Juan, St. Thomas and Half Moon Cay in the Caribbean. Speakers include former DCI’s Porter Goss and Gen. Michael Hayden plus many others. AFIO member and retired CIA operations officer Bart Bechtel continues his role as the “SpySkipper.” For more information about this year’s SpyCruise®, go to: http://spytrek.com/spycruise.html.
RESERVATIONS: www.DFunTravel.com or call 1-888-670-0008.
Fees for an eight day cruise: $1,199 inside cabin; $1269 Ocean View Cabin; $1449 Verandahs; $1979 Suites. Price includes program, taxes, port charges and gratuities. Colorful brochure here.