AFIO Weekly Intelligence Notes #32-16 dated 16 August 2016

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CONTENTS

Section I - INTELLIGENCE HIGHLIGHTS

Section II - CONTEXT & PRECEDENCE

Section III - COMMENTARY

Section IV - Jobs, Deaths

Jobs

Deaths

Section V - Events

Upcoming AFIO Events

Other Upcoming Events

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CIA and the Nixon Presidential Library
invite AFIO Members and Guests to attend the

The President's Daily Brief: Delivering Intelligence to Nixon and Ford
Director of Central Intelligence Agency John Brennan
and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper
will be keynote speakers

Wednesday, 24 August 2016, 1 to 4:30 p.m.
at the Nixon Presidential Library, Yorba Linda, California
Registration free here.

Previously classified President's Daily Briefs (PDB) from the Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford Administrations produced by the CIA are scheduled to be released on Wednesday, 24 August, at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda, California, at a symposium from 1:00 - 4:30 pm.

Those seeking to attend must register in advance with the Nixon Presidential Library at the link here or below. The event will feature panel discussions and remarks by CIA Director John O. Brennan, Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper, senior Intelligence Community historians, and leaders from the academic and archivist communities. AFIO's president, James R. Hughes, will be hosting a special post-conference reception and looks forward to greeting members.

The President's Daily Briefs (PDBs) contain intelligence analysis on key national security issues for the president and other senior policymakers. Only the president, vice president, and a select group of officials with high-level security clearance receive the daily briefing, which represents the Intelligence Community's best insights when confronted with threats, as well as opportunities related to our national security.

This public release highlights the role of the PDBs in foreign and national security policymaking. This collection includes the PDBs published during President Nixon's term from January 1969 through the end of President Ford's term in January 1977. These documents offer insight into intelligence that informed presidential decision-making during critical historical events including: the Vietnam War, President Nixon's Trip to China, the OPEC embargo, and the Arab-Israeli War.

The documents will be posted on the CIA website the day of the symposium here. This collection was assembled as part of the CIA's Historical Review Program, which identifies, reviews, and declassifies documents on historically significant events or topics.

Registration is available here. The program will be live streamed via YouTube here.

How to Operate More Effectively in the New Threat Environment: Educating the Next Generation of Intelligence Professionals by The Intelligence and Security Academy

18-20 October 2016 - Arlington, VA

The Intelligence & Security Academy offers this 3-day program jointly with the FGH Academy of Competitive Intelligence (ACI). The program will be led by three respected educators in the intelligence field, both government and private sector: Mark M. Lowenthal, The Intelligence & Security Academy; Jan P. Herring, FGH Academy of Competitive Intelligence; and Tip Clifton, Eastport Analytics.
Both intelligence communities – government and private-sector – need to better understand the nature of their current and future competitive environments, and to begin to develop both the intelligence sources and analytical skills they will need to operate in the emerging threat environment. This course is designed to help intelligence practitioners prepare for the new and emerging intelligence environment that both government and private-sector intelligence organizations will be facing in the years to come.

Day 1: Mark Lowenthal "Issues for the Intelligence Professional" 8:30am-4:30pm Dr. Lowenthal will address Open Source Intelligence Today; Training an Intelligence Work Force; and Warning Intelligence: What, How.

Day 2: Jan Herring "The Future Competitive Environment Facing Both Public and Private-sector Intelligence Professionals"
8:30am-4:30pm Mr. Herring will address the 'Future Intelligence' Environment for Private-sector Intelligence Professionals; New Types of Intelligence Professionals that will be needed in "That Future"; New Analytical Techniques and Tools for The Future Intelligence Environment.

Day 3: Tip Clifton "Innovating in Analytics"
8:30am-12:30pm Successful organizations today increasingly leverage information to support decision-making across the enterprise. The shift from information and technology scarcity to over-abundance has radically tilted the playing field away from collection and towards analysis, opening up huge opportunities for business.
Organizations can (and now must) innovate rapidly in analytics; to do so requires organizational commitment, understanding the organizational impediments to analytics innovation, and a decision-centric approach for achieving change. This half day session will use case studies to illustrate principles of effective innovation in analytics.
Pricing: Early Bird Pricing prior to September 1, 2016 - $1,875.00/ After September 1, 2016 - $2,400.00 AFIO members receive a 10% discount!
Course registration is handled directly through ACI here.

Section I - INTELLIGENCE HIGHLIGHTS

CIA to Release Declassified President's Daily Briefings from the Nixon and Ford Administrations.  Previously classified President's Daily Briefings (PDB) from the Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford Administrations produced by the CIA are scheduled to be released on Wednesday, August 24 at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda, California, at a symposium from 1:00 - 4:30 pm, entitled The President's Daily Brief: Delivering Intelligence to Nixon and Ford.

The event is open to the public, but those seeking to attend must register in advance with the Nixon Presidential Library. The event will feature panel discussions and remarks by CIA Director John O. Brennan, Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper, senior Intelligence Community historians, and leaders from the academic and archivist communities. AFIO's president, James Hughes, will be host of the special reception that follows the conference.

The President's Daily Briefs (PDBs) contain intelligence analysis on key national security issues for the president and other senior policymakers. Only the president, vice president, and a select group of officials with high-level security clearance receive the daily briefing, which represents the Intelligence Community's best insights when confronted with threats, as well as opportunities related to our national security.

This public release highlights the role of the PDBs in foreign and national security policymaking.  [Read more: CIA/10August2016]

New Intelligence Program Aims to Stop Supply Chain Hacks.  U.S. intelligence agencies are rolling out an exclusive cybersecurity information sharing initiative where American telecommunications, energy and financial services businesses will begin to receive classified threat intelligence reports about hackers who are targeting supply chain operations.

Led by the National Counterintelligence and Security Center, news of the information sharing plan follows a meeting between NCSC Director William Evanina and U.S. telecommunication industry leaders in Washington last month.

A complimentary video published Thursday by NCSC also highlights the importance of supply chain security to mitigate threats associated with the theft of intellectual property, trade secrets and research and development methods.

"The supply chain is the interconnected web of people, processes, technology, information and resources that deliver a product or service," the NCSC video describes.  [Read more:  Bing/FedScoop/11August2016]

More Info Needed to Analyze Change Over N.K. Intelligence Agency: Seoul.  South Korea said Tuesday that more information is needed to analyze whether control of North Korea's intelligence agency has changed following the latest overhaul of its cabinet organization.

The Ministry of State Security, Pyongyang's intelligence agency, was previously placed under the control of the powerful National Defense Commission (NDC) before the country's parliament replaced the NDC with a newly created state apparatus named the State Affairs Commission (SAC) in late June.

The NDC previously had three ministries - the Ministry of People's Armed Forces, the North's defense ministry, and the Ministry of People's Security, the North's police agency - under its wing.

But as North Korea's state media called the two ministries by different official names, speculation is growing that the official name of the ministry on state security might have been altered.  [Read more:  Yonhap/16August2016]
 
Groups Oppose EU Funding of Romanian Intelligence Agency's Facial Recognition Data Program.  European privacy groups have voiced opposition to a planned surveillance data project that would significantly expand the technology capabilities of Romania's domestic intelligence service.

The program, SII Analytics, would enable Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI) to identify its citizens through facial recognition technology and allow the agency to intercept online communications, according to a letter signed by the groups.

The letter was signed by four groups, ActiveWatch, Association for Human Rights in Romania (APADOR CH), Association for Technology and Internet (ApTI), and Legal Resources Centre. The groups said the surveillance system violates privacy and personal data protections contained in Articles 7 and 8 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. The project received EU funding, the letter said.

The Romanian intelligence agency said SII Analytics "does not collect new data but analyzes [existing data] based on algorithms," according to a Google translation of an SII Analytics statement.  [Read more:  Davis/SCMagazine/9August2016]

Michal Koudelka Becomes New Head of Czech Counter-Intelligence Service.  Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka inaugurated yesterday Michal Koudelka as new head of the BIS counter-intelligence to replace Jiri Lang who asked for release from the post after 13 years in early June, the Government Office has told CTK.

The government approved the change at the BIS head at the end of July.

Koudelka, born in 1965, graduated from the Czech Technical University in Prague (CVUT). He joined the secret service in 1992. He headed the BIS's counter-espionage department for ten years.

The defence committee of the Chamber of Deputies unanimously recommended him to the head of the BIS in mid-July.  [Read more:  PragueDailyMonitor/16August2016]

Pakistan: Intelligence Cooperation Deal With Afghanistan Can Help Counter Terrorism.  Pakistan is calling on Afghanistan to help create a formal intelligence-sharing deal so that the countries can better address allegations that their spy agencies are involved with anti-state violence on both sides of their shared border.

Pakistani prime minister's foreign policy advisor, Sartaj Aziz, renewed the call amid allegations the Afghan intelligence agency, National Directorate of Security (NDS) had links to Monday's deadly suicide hospital bombing in the southwestern city of Quetta.

The attack killed more than 70 people and wounded scores of others, with most of the victims belonging to the lawyer community.

A splinter faction of the Pakistani Taliban, known as Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, or JuA, claimed responsibility for the bloodshed. The United States last month designated it as a global terrorist organization.  [Read more:  Gul/VOA/12August2016]

Section II - CONTEXT & PRECEDENCE

CIA Invites AFIO Members & Guests to Nixon Library Conference (Yorba Linda, CA), 24 August.  The Central Intelligence Agency and the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and the National Archives Invites AFIO Members and Guest to a special no-cost Document-Release Event and Reception at the Richard Nixon Library and Museum Wednesday, 24 August 2016 from 1 to 6 PM (PDT) on "The President's Daily Brief: Delivering Intelligence to Nixon and Ford".

A special reception for AFIO members and their guests will follow. 

Director of Central Intelligence Agency John Brennan and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper to Keynote Event.

AFIO's President, James R. Hughes, will be present and looks forward to meeting members.

Register NOW at this link no cost. Registration required to attend.  [For more information:  Click Here]

How the U.S. Spies on Medical Nonprofits and Health Defenses Worldwide.  As part of an ongoing effort to "exploit medical intelligence," the National Security Agency teamed up with the military-focused Defense Intelligence Agency to extract "medical SIGINT" from the intercepted communications of nonprofit groups starting in the early 2000s, a top-secret document shows.

Medical intelligence can include information about disease outbreaks; the ability of a foreign regime to respond to chemical, biological, and nuclear attacks; the capabilities of overseas drugs companies; advances in medical technology; medical research, and the medical response capabilities of various governments, according to the document and others like it, provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. The documents show that such intelligence is used in efforts to protect U.S. forces, assess the readiness of foreign armies, create opportunities for U.S. diplomats to build goodwill, uncover chemical weapons programs, identify specific bio-weapons facilities, and study how diseases spread.

The existence and broad contours of U.S. medical intelligence collection have been previously disclosed (as has one of its more nefarious uses, in which the flow of medical supplies would be used to hunt down a targeted individual). But a top-secret, previously-unreleased article published in November 2003 in the NSA's internal newsletter, SIDtoday, details the birth of a collaboration between the agency and the DIA's National Center for Medical Intelligence, then known as the Armed Forces Medical Intelligence Center. (The article is being published along with 262 others by The Intercept today; here are some other highlights.)  [Read more:  McLaughlin/TheIntercept/10August2016]

When Friends Spy on Friends: The Case of Jonathan Pollard.  Former Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Jay Pollard delivered over 800 highly classified documents to the Israeli government over a 17-month period. According to an article by Seymour Hersh published in the New Yorker, Pollard stole and sold militarily sensitive Signals Intelligence information, a year's worth of memos by intelligence officers in the U.S. Navy's Sixth Fleet recording  their observations of Soviet planes, ships, and submarines in the Mediterranean Sea, documents on how Navy intelligence was tracking Soviet submarines, and material revealing the capabilities of one of America's most highly classified photo-reconnaissance satellites.  In a 1998 op-ed published in the Washington Post, four former directors of naval intelligence noted that Pollard "offered classified information to three other countries before working for the Israelis and that he offered his services to a fourth country while he was spying for Israel."

FBI agents arrested Pollard in Washington on Nov. 21, 1985 after he sought political asylum at the Israeli Embassy in Washington. He pleaded guilty to leaking classified documents and was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1987 with a mandatory-parole clause after 30 years. He was released November 20, 2015.

Officials at the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv and at the State Department described their perspectives on the case. Thomas Pickering, Ambassador to Israel from 1985 to 1988, was interviewed by Charles Stuart Kennedy in April 2003. Samuel W. Lewis, who served as Ambassador to Israel from 1977 to 1985, was interviewed by Peter Jessup in August 1998.  Kennedy also interviewed Joseph G. Sullivan, U.S. Embassy Tel Aviv's deputy political counselor from 1984 to 1988, in January 2009; Roger Harrison, Embassy Tel Aviv's political counselor 1985-1987, in November 2001; and Phillip C. Wilcox, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Near East Affairs, 1984-1987, in April 1998.  [Read more:  Baroody/ADST/10August2016]

2016 "Bobby R. Inman Award" Winners Announced.  The Intelligence Studies Project of the University of Texas at Austin is pleased to announce the winner and two semifinalists of the second "Bobby R. Inman Award" recognizing outstanding student research and writing on topics related to intelligence and national security during the 2015-2016 academic year.

The recipient of the 2016 "Inman Award" is Quentin Buckholz, a Masters of International Affairs candidate at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. In his paper, "The 1980's War Scare: Misperceptions, Mistaken Beliefs, and Missed Signals in US-Soviet Relations," Mr. Buckholz assesses how the Soviet Union came to believe in the threat of a nuclear first strike by the United States in the early 1980s, and how US intelligence misinterpreted or dismissed that fear.

The graduate student semifinalist is Daniel Severson, a recent J.D. and M.P.P. graduate of Harvard University. His paper, "National Security Reporting Requirements: Managing the Tension Between Secrecy and Accountability," explores the potential benefits and limitations of reporting requirements mandating disclosure to Congress of the legal rationale underlying certain sensitive intelligence activities.

The undergraduate semifinalist is James "Jake" Barnett, a recent graduate of the University of Texas at Austin. Mr. Barnett's History Honors Thesis, "When Culture Eats Strategy: Examining the Phoenix/Phung Hoang Bureaucracy in the Vietnam War," uses statistical methods to assess the effectiveness of (and accountability for) US counterinsurgency programs undertaken during the Vietnam conflict.  [Read more:  UT/August2016]

Pentagon Releases New Procedures for Intelligence Collection.  Today, the Department of Defense released revised procedures - along with an accompanying fact sheet - governing the conduct of its intelligence activities. DoD Manual 5240.01, ensures that Defense Department policy complies with DoD Directive 5240.01 and Executive Order 12333, which authorize Defense components to collect, retain, and disseminate information concerning U.S. persons and conduct other activities "in accordance with the Constitution and laws of the United States".

The manual's provisions apply to all DOD components, the U.S. military and defense intelligence agencies - including the National Security Agency. These latest revisions were approved by the Attorney General and Secretary of Defense after consultation with the Director of National Intelligence.

Updates to 5240 are long-overdue. The manual was last issued in 1982, the same year that Time named the personal computer the "Machine of the Year," and one year prior to the magazine's newsroom transition from typewriters to word processors. The intervening decades have seen dramatic developments in the technology, law, and practice surrounding intelligence collection and analysis, raising novel questions regarding privacy and civil liberties. Following the 9/11 attacks, these capabilities developed further in the face of new asymmetric threats and demands for greater information sharing and the intelligence community underwent rounds of reform, including the creation of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

In light of these developments, the revised manual makes six major changes to the previous version, including updating the definitions for "collection" and "publicly available information," as well as creating new rules regarding the retention of information from U.S. persons, information sharing within the intelligence community, and conducting physical searches for foreign intelligence purposes.  [Read more:  Poplin/Lawfare/10August2016]

NSA Hacked? 'Shadow Brokers' Crew Claims Compromise Of Surveillance Op.  Has the NSA just been hacked? Security experts speaking with Forbes think it's possible, after a group published malware and attack code allegedly belonging to the Equation Group, a crew linked to the US intelligence agency. But while many believe the leak looks legitimate, the hackers could have pulled off a very clever ruse.

In 2015, researchers at Russian security company Kaspersky Lab revealed a highly-advanced arsenal of hacking tools used by the Equation campaign. They were believed to have been the work of the NSA as the code was linked with previous, allegedly US-sponsored hacks, including the infamous Regin and Stuxnet attacks. That link, however, was never definitively proven nor admitted by the signals intelligence body.

Two days ago, on August 13, a group calling themselves The Shadow Brokers released files on Github, claiming they came from the Equation Group. The files included code allegedly designed to exploit firewalls from American manufacturers Cisco, Juniper and Fortinet . One Chinese company, Topsec, was also an Equation target, according to the leaks. None of the manufacturers had responded to requests for comment at the time of publication.

The hackers released 60 per cent of the files they claimed to have taken from the Equation Group. The Shadow Brokers said they would release the remaining data to the highest bidder in a Bitcoin auction (they've received two bids so far). If they received an extraordinary 1,000,000 Bitcoins, worth roughly $560 million, they would release all the files.  [Read more:  Fox-Brewster/Forbes/15August2016]

Ex-MI6 Chief Sir Maurice Oldfield: On Margaret's Secret Service.  He was one of Britain's most successful spymasters, battling Nazi agents during the Second World War and the KGB in the Cold War. But, as a new biography reveals, nothing had prepared ex-MI6 chief Sir Maurice Oldfield for the most challenging and controversial assignment of his career...appointed by Margaret Thatcher to tackle the IRA and vicious inter-service rivalry in Northern Ireland.

A few minutes before midday on Bank Holiday Monday, August 27, 1979, the tranquil calm of the Co Sligo fishing village of Mullaghmore was suddenly shattered when an explosion ripped apart a small fishing boat, the Shadow V. The blast, caused by a 50lb bomb that had been planted on the boat by the Provisional IRA and detonated by remote control, claimed the life of perhaps the most high-profile victim of the Troubles - the Queen's cousin, Lord Louis Mountbatten. Also killed in the explosion were the Dowager Lady Brabourne, Mountbatten's grandson Nicholas Knatchbull and Paul Maxwell, a 15-year-old local boat boy.

Just four hours later, with the British and Irish authorities still reeling from Mountbatten's assassination, 18 soldiers, including a Lieutenant-Colonel, were massacred in a double bomb blast near Warrenpoint, the Army's heaviest casualties in a single incident during the Troubles.

The devastating attacks carried out by the Provisional IRA that day at Mullaghmore and Warrenpoint were a shattering blow and came at a time when the security forces were beginning to hope that they'd turned a corner in the fight against terrorism, with casualties steadily reducing year on year.  [Read more:  Taylor/BelfastTelegraph/13August2016]

Section III - COMMENTARY

'IT is Mission': How Data Is Revolutionizing Intelligence.  Intelligence agencies must stop viewing information technology as a back-office support service and instead elevate it to its rightful place as a mission-critical capability, argues Sean Roche, associate deputy director of digital innovation for the CIA.

"Stop treating IT like a service. Stop treating IT with the word 'customer.' Stop treating IT like it's part of the admin portion of your organization," he told the Department of Defense Intelligence Information Systems (DoDIIS) worldwide conference Aug. 2. "IT is mission."

The distinction "changes the way we go about funding and prioritizing programs," he said. It also has significant implications for the kinds of skills and talent intelligence agencies will need in the future, and for how systems are built, managed and designed.

For much of the past two decades, networks were the critical assets in intelligence - the ability to interact and quickly communicate across secure networks helped deliver data to the tactical edge more and more quickly. The time lag between intelligence shrunk from days to hours, minutes, even seconds. But in a data-centric world, intelligence is crossing into new territory. It is increasingly possible to predict likely outcomes, allowing national security leaders to make better decisions more quickly. [Read more:  Naegele/GovTechWorks/10August2016]

Little Britain: Brexit and the UK-US Special Intelligence Relationship.  The past month has seen an earthquake of magnitude ten in British politics, producing seismic shocks across the European Union and the Atlantic. First came the decision to exit the EU, the most surprising political result in modern British history, which not only led to the downfall of David Cameron, but also plunged the UK into a constitutional crisis. Then came the publication of John Chilcot's long-awaited report into the invasion of Iraq in 2003, which reveals that Tony Blair's government went to war on the basis of faulty intelligence. Although the referendum and the Chilcot report were not connected, their quick succession has pulverised the British Establishment. The summer of 2016 is when fundamental questions are being asked about the future of the UK, its politics, and its role in the world.

Before the referendum, a vigorous debate arose from comments made in this magazine by Richard Dearlove, a former Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), who argued there would be national security advantages for Britain leaving the EU. Now the UK has voted to do so, previously speculative debates are reality and will have to become policy matters for the new Prime Minister, Theresa May.

Both before and after the referendum, one subject has received insufficient attention: its likely impact on one of the most important aspects of British foreign policy at present, the "special" intelligence relationship between Britain and the United States. Contrary to what other commentators have suggested, Brexit threatens to undermine, and even terminate, the UK-US special intelligence relationship. The reasons for this are historical: it is only by considering Brexit's broader past context that we can appreciate its full implications. Brexit, a tectonic shift, represents the biggest realignment in European security since 1945.  [Read more:  Walton/Prospect/10August2016]

Section IV - Jobs, Deaths

Jobs

CAVEATS: IMPORTANT: AFIO does not "vet" or endorse research inquiries, career announcements, or job offers. Reasonable-sounding inquiries and career offerings are published as a service to our members, and for researchers, educators, and subscribers. You are urged to exercise your usual caution and good judgment when responding, and should verify the source independently before supplying any resume, career data, or personal information.]

Instructor of Transnational Issues-Economics and Threat Finance sought for National Intelligence University: Contractor Faculty

a. NIU requires an instructor to teach the Economics and Threat Finance curriculum to support the College of Strategic Intelligence of the NIU . Provide subject matter expertise on Economics and Threat Finance as instructor and advisor to graduate students at the National Intelligence University. Expert is responsible for the delivery of courses, maintenance of curriculum, and providing supporting exercises and course examples. Presents course subject matter through an established instructional methodology at the graduate level. Evaluates student performance, coordinates student requirements with university registrar, and provides all appropriate course materials as needed . Incumbent serves as a member of students' thesis committee as thesis reader or thesis chair. Provides all around expertise on the Economics and Threat Finance.
b. Demonstrated capacity to perform research in the economic or finance disciplines.
c. Possession of a PhD or being a PhD candidate is highly desired.
d. Published author on economics or threat finance within the past five years, highly desired
e. Minimum of five (5) years teaching experience at the graduate level, with ten (10) years highly desired.
f. Minimum of five (5) years intelligence or policy experience on economics or threat finance, highly desired.
g. Presentations on economics or threat finance topics to academic or national security forums.
h. Experience teaching economics or threat finance at the graduate level within the past five (5) years.
1. Experience mentoring students through research/ writing a Master's Thesis.
J. Capacity to teach at least one subject at the graduate level, relevant to the Intelligence curriculum that is not related to Economics or Threat Finance.
k. U.S. intelligence community joint duty credit is highly desired.

Contact Cesar Nader, XCorp Solutions at cesar@xcorpsolutions.com or Mobile: (540) 847-0671

Deaths

William Harold Mulledy, former NSA Career Cryptologist, AFIO Member. William Harold Mulledy, 88, of Tucson, AZ, formerly of Hilton Head Island, SC, died 9 April 2016.
Mulledy joined the US Navy and served during World War II. Postwar, he continued to serve working for the Department of Defense and the National Security Agency as a cryptologist before retiring in 1973. He was a member of the Phoenix Society and the Association of Former Intelligence Officers.
After retiring, he relocated to Hilton Head Island where he enjoyed fishing and golfing. He resided on the Island until 2015 when he and his wife Mary Jane moved briefly to Virginia before settling in Tucson, Arizona.
He is survived by his wife and other family.
A graveside service was held Monday, April 18, 2016, at Beaufort National Cemetery, Beaufort, SC at 1 pm.

Jack Stephens, former NSA Cryptologist, Founding Member of NSA. Guy Harold Stephens, known to many as Jack, 96, died in Brandon, FL. Guy served in the US Army during WWII. After the war, he worked with the State Department in a position which evolved into a career with the National Security Agency (NSA) where he was one of NSA's original employees. He traveled extensively and lived overseas during part of his career. Guy was an amazing Cryptologist and a wonderful, kind person. He also was an active Phoenix Society member for 20 years.
After retiring, Guy returned to Marietta College and finished his bachelor's degree. He continued to travel to most of Olympic Games and had a passion for sports, particularly Swimming and Track and Field.
He is survived by a daughter and other family. His wife predeceased him.
A service will be held on Saturday, August 20, 2016 at St. Marks Methodist Church (302 Maple Street, Belpre, OH) at 1 PM. All are welcome. There will also be a gathering at 2:30 PM at the North End Tavern (3500 Emerson Ave, Parkersburg, WV) and all family and friends are welcome there too.

Section V - Events

AFIO EDUCATIONAL EVENTS IN COMING TWO MONTHS....

24 August 2016, 1 - 4:30 p.m. - Yorba Linda, CA - CIA and Nixon Library host "The President's Daily Brief: Delivering Intelligence to Nixon and Ford" at the Nixon Presidential Library

Previously classified President's Daily Briefs (PDB) from the Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford Administrations produced by the CIA are scheduled to be released on Wednesday, 24 August, at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda, California, at a symposium from 1:00 - 4:30 pm.

Those seeking to attend must register in advance with the Nixon Presidential Library at the link here or below. The event will feature panel discussions and remarks by CIA Director John O. Brennan, Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper, senior Intelligence Community historians, and leaders from the academic and archivist communities. AFIO's president, James R. Hughes, will be hosting a special post-conference reception and looks forward to greeting members.

The President's Daily Briefs (PDBs) contain intelligence analysis on key national security issues for the president and other senior policymakers. Only the president, vice president, and a select group of officials with high-level security clearance receive the daily briefing, which represents the Intelligence Community's best insights when confronted with threats, as well as opportunities related to our national security.

This public release highlights the role of the PDBs in foreign and national security policymaking. This collection includes the PDBs published during President Nixon's term from January 1969 through the end of President Ford's term in January 1977. These documents offer insight into intelligence that informed presidential decision-making during critical historical events including: the Vietnam War, President Nixon's Trip to China, the OPEC embargo, and the Arab-Israeli War.

The documents will be posted on the CIA website the day of the symposium here. This collection was assembled as part of the CIA's Historical Review Program, which identifies, reviews, and declassifies documents on historically significant events or topics.

Registration is available here. The program will be live streamed via YouTube here.

10 September 2016, 11:30am - Melbourne, FL - The AFIO Florida Satellite Chapter hosts Louis Pernice on "The History of Homeland Security."

Guest Speaker at this kick-off event for the fall season is Louis Pernice, speaking on "The History of Homeland Security: The American Experience from our Independence to 911." It will be presented from abroad perspective covering both constitutional, budgetary and social issues. Lou will also be covering the topic starting from the early colonial days of defending our borders through the Civil War, both World Wars, the Cold War, evolution of transnational terrorist threat and up to the 9/11 attacks.
Lou's professional background includes: Career law enforcement professional with a leadership record spanning over 40 years of demonstrated success in five federal/state law enforcement/support agencies including: United States Treasury Department - Internal Revenue Service; US Department of Agriculture - Office of Inspector General; US Department of Justice - Office of the Inspector General; US Immigration and Naturalization Service - Office of Professional Responsibility; and the Brevard Police Testing and Selection Center. Lou holds a Masters Degree in Public Administration from John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York and hold a BachelorsDegree in Psychology from Brooklyn College in New York.
Event will be held at Indian River Colony Club, 1936 Freedom Drive, Melbourne, FL 32940.
For more information or to register, do so at this chapter website link.

15 September 2016, 12:30 - 2 pm - Los Angeles, CA - AFIO'L.A hosts Maj. Gen. Mark MacCarley, U.S. Army, (Ret) on "Integrating the Active Army, Guard, and Army Reserve for Enhanced National Security Readiness."

Maj. Gen.(Ret) MacCarley will be discussing 'Integrating the Active Army, Guard, and Army Reserve into one Army to optimize readiness and enhance National Security."
Brief Bio: Among Maj. Gen. MacCarley's many accomplishments in the United States Army he has served in the following key positions:
Deputy Chief of Staff, United States Army Training and Doctrine Command; Deputy Commanding General ' Support,1st Army and Commander, 1st Army Reserve Support Command; Deputy Commanding General, 1st Theater Sustainment Command, headquartered at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait; Deputy Commanding General, 8thTheater Sustainment Command, Fort Shafter, Hawaii; Deputy Defense Coordinating Officer and Regional Emergency Preparedness Liaison Officer, US Fifth Army; and Chief of Staff, 377th Theater Sustainment Command, Camp Arifjan, Kuwait.

Location: L.A.P.D.-ARTC, 5651 W Manchester Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90045
Please RSVP: afio_la@yahoo.com to attend. Refreshments will be served.

Other Upcoming Events

16 August 2016, 1130 am to 2 pm - McLean, VA - Pat Neary on "Analytic Quality" at the Defense Intelligence Forum

Mr. Pat Neary will speak on 'Analytic Quality: you can't manage what you don't measure!'

Mr. Pat Neary is the Chief of Analytic Integrity & Standards in ODNI; as such he evaluates and reports to the DNI and the Congress on the quality of the IC's analytic efforts. Therefore, he is responsible for ensuring that the Intelligence Community's finished products are timely, objective, independent of political considerations, based upon all sources of intelligence, and demonstrative of the standards of proper analytic tradecraft. His career includes service as the Research Director at both DIA and DHS I&A, Associate J2 for the Joint Staff, as well as the Army G2 Senior Executive Analyst and the ODNI's first Director of Strategy. His awards includes the Presidential Meritorious Rank award, the IC Galileo Award, and the National Intelligence Reform Medal.

For this forum, the attribution rules will be presented at the beginning of the presentation to ensure a complete understanding between the speaker and audience on how any disseminated information should be handle.

Location: Pulcinella Restaurant, 6852 Old Dominion Drive, McLean, VA
Pay at the door with a check for $ 29.00 payable to DIAA, Inc. Registration starts at 1130 AM, lunch at 1230 PM

Make reservations by 16 August 2016 by email here. Include names, telephone numbers, and email addresses. For each attendee, choose among chicken cacciatore, tilapia puttanesca, lasagna, sausage with peppers, or fettuccini with portabella for your luncheon selection. Please send in your luncheon selection with your reservation to reduce your wait time.
Checks are preferred, but will accept cash; however, credit card payments are discouraged.

Tuesday 16 August 2016, 7:30 to 8:45 PM - McLean, VA - Congressman Frank Wolf discusses "Nigeria and Boko Haram" at the Westminster Institute

Nigeria is on the verge of fracturing along religious fault lines. Ethnic and religious minorities in northern Nigeria face systemic and systematic discrimination. Muslims and Christians in northeastern Nigeria are profoundly and negatively impacted by the terrorist violence pursued by Boko Haram. Christians risk extinction in Nigeria's northeast.
Congressman Frank Wolf was widely acknowledged as the "conscience" of the Congress during his long service in the House of Representatives. First elected in 1980, he left Congress at the end of his 17th term in 2015 to focus exclusively on human rights and religious freedom.

Former Congressman Frank Wolf is Senior Fellow of the 21st Century Wilberforce Initiative.

Long before the "Arab Spring" turned into an "Arab Winter," Congressman Wolf sounded the alarm about the worsening plight of religious minorities, notably the ancient Christian communities in both Iraq and Egypt.

He has recently returned from a trip to Nigeria. Nigeria is on the verge of fracturing along religious fault lines. Ethnic and religious minorities in northern Nigeria face systemic and systematic discrimination. Muslims and Christians in northeastern Nigeria are profoundly and negatively impacted by the terrorist violence pursued by Boko Haram. Christians risk extinction in Nigeria's northeast.

Congressman Wolf continues to be an advocate for those who cannot speak for themselves. In January 2015, he was appointed the first-ever Wilson Chair in Religious Freedom at Baylor University. That same month he joined the 21st Century Wilberforce Initiative, a newly created religious freedom group, as Distinguished Senior Fellow.

He is the author of the International Religious Freedom Act, which infused America's first freedom - religious freedom - into US foreign policy by creating the International Religious Freedom Office at the State Department.

Where: Westminster Institute, 6729 Curran St, McLean, VA 22101.
Register here.

Wednesday, 24 August 2016, noon- 2 pm - Washington, DC - Debriefing the President - at the International Spy Museum

In December 2003, after one of the largest, most aggressive manhunts in history, US military forces captured Iraqi president Saddam Hussein near his hometown. Beset by body-double rumors and false alarms, the Bush administration needed positive identification of the prisoner before announcing the capture. John Nixon was a senior CIA leadership analyst who had spent years studying the Iraqi dictator. Called upon to make the official ID, Nixon looked for telltale scars and tattoos and asked Hussein questions only he could answer―the man was indeed Saddam Hussein. Join Nixon as he exposes the preconceived ideas that led Washington policymakers astray and presents a new perspective on America's most enigmatic enemy in Debriefing the President. Tickets: FREE. Visit www.spymuseum.org

Wednesday, 24 August 2016, 6:30 pm- 8:30 pm - Washington, DC - Spies on Screen: The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe - at the International Spy Museum

When this lighthearted tale of espionage, surveillance, and mistaken identity premiered in 1972 it became an international sensation. Pierre Richard is Francois the tall blond man, an unsuspecting violinist who becomes a pawn in a goofy, but deadly, game of spy versus spy within France's Counter-Espionage department. The screwball comedy features a fabulous femme fatale, much slapstick, and lots and lots of collateral damage. Enjoy popcorn and sparkling French soda along with the evening's screening. In French with English subtitles; screening at the Spy Museum. Cosponsored by the Alliance Fran'aise de Washington and Film Movement. Tickets: $10. Visit www.spymuseum.org

28 - 29 October 2016 - The Hague, Netherlands - "Witness to Change: Intelligence Analysis in a Changing Environment" is topic of the NISA 25th Anniversary Conference

The Netherlands Intelligence Studies Association (NISA) celebrates its 25th anniversary with a two-days conference. Main theme is the strongly changed environment of the intelligence analyst during these past 25 years.
In other words: the 25th anniversary as a symbol for the revolutionary changes in the intelligence world with which analysts have to deal; both external developments (the onset of a multipolar world, asymmetric conflicts, the information revolution), and internal changes (in collecting, processing, dissemination, legitimization and supervision).
These developments forced intelligence analysts and organisations to adapt work processes and methods and techniques. Intelligence analysts still mostly operate in secret, but the demands of intelligence consumers and the public have changed over the last 25 years. Social and technological developments have changed the playing field and the rules of the game for the intelligence analyst, leading to an enormous growth in (publicly) available information and means of communication, and demands for more transparency and accountability. Aim of the conference is to touch on the consequences of this changed environment, and to look ahead.

Participants are invited to listen to distinguished experts in the field, and to enter into discussions on various topics relating to intelligence analysis.

The Conference will be held at the Nationaal Archief (the National Archive), Prins Willem Alexanderhof 20, The Hague, the Netherlands.
The conference program may be viewed here as a PDF.

Conference Fee: Standard Fee: Eur175; Student Fee: Eur80 (proof of status required). Fee covers registration, lunch and drinks.
To join the Conference Diner on Friday 28 October 2016, an extra fee of Eur30 is applicable.

To Register: For registration: fill this form. After registration you will receive further information as regards payment of the conference fee and the programme. There is a limited number of seats. Registration for the conference will close on 15 October 2016.
For further information please send an e-mail to 25yearsnisa@gmail.com

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