Member Opportunities

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Research and Academic Requests

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If interested, please contact Kazuho Kimura at kimura.k-gg@nhk.or.jp

Assistance needed in contacting former U.S. intelligence officers with knowledge of Soviet and Russian intelligence activity in Japan [NEW]

Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK) Chief Director Kazuho Kimura has asked for assistance in contacting former U.S. intelligence officers who may be willing to discuss any understanding they may have of Soviet and Russian intelligence activity in Japan, particularly during the Cold War, or who can provide guidance on locating relevant sources. He is working to produce a documentary on the issue and looking for leads, archival content, and historical subject-matter experts. Kimura and his team, based in Tokyo, are open to email and online conference meetings.

If interested, please contact Ralph Mariani at marianir3@yahoo.com.

Researching Tom Karamessines

AFIO member conducting research seeks personal or career information on Tom Karamessines, who served in OSS and CIA, 1942-1974. He was COS in both Athens and Rome in the 1950’s and was A/DDO and DDO under Richard Helms. He resigned in protest when Nixon pushed Helms out. He died at age 61 in 1978. Purpose will be to bring Karamessines in from the cold with a positive article.

If interested, please contact Dalene Duvenage at dalene@sec-intelligence.com (or use LinkedIn) for more information to contribute to this critical study.

Interviews for "Oxford Handbook of Women in Intelligence"

Women involved in intelligence operations sought as interviewees for quantitative research examining the lived experiences and professional identity negotiations of women who have worked/are working in operational or clandestine intelligence roles. This includes field officers, case officers, operatives, surveillance officers, HUMINT collectors, and covert or semi-covert operational staff from different countries, cultures and agencies.

The project explores how women working in high-risk, secretive, and male-dominated environments navigate identity, credibility, emotional demands, and the unique pressures of intelligence work. The aim is to understand women’s experiences better and to focus on personal experiences, identity work, adaptation, and workplace culture. The results of the study will be published in Aviva Guttmann's (ed) forthcoming book "Oxford Handbook of Women in Intelligence”.

Interviews via a secure audio call will be held in January/February 2026. No operational or classified details will be requested; anonymity is assured, and pseudonyms and anonymised emails can be used. The interviews will be 60 minutes.

If interested, please contact Ben Macintyre on ben.macintyre@thetimes.co.uk or 00 44 7909 926161

Interview Subjects

British author Ben Macintyre requests members’ help in researching a joint CIA-MI6 operation during the Cold War.

In1981, MI6 recruited a senior Russian KGB officer in post-revolutionary Iran, and exfiltrated him to the UK a year later. Vladimir Kuzichkin (codename REDWOOD) revealed a KGB conspiracy to recruit, finance and arm members of the Iranian Communist (Tudeh) Party to mount a possible coup against the Ayatollah Khomeini and install a communist regime, backed by Soviet forces.

The CIA and MI6 jointly agreed to pass the intelligence to Iran, hoping this “goodwill gesture” would open warmer relations with Khomeini's government.

In September 1982, a meeting was arranged in Islamabad between REDWOOD and officials of SAVAMA, the Iranian intelligence service. Armed with Kuzichkin's revelations, the Revolutionary Guard moved to destroy the Tudeh party in 1983 and expelled 18 Soviet diplomats. The REDWOOD case stymied the threat of a Soviet-backed coup and neutralised Iranian communism, but did not improve relations with Iran. Bob Woodward published a report on the episode in the Washington Post in 1986.

Any assistance would be appreciated.

If interested, please contact thomas.dolan@ucf.edu, if you have a perspective you would like to share.

Researching Soviet Spying and the Reagan Administration

Tom Dolan, a professor at the University of Central Florida, is researching the Reagan Administration’s response to official cover espionage (the “hostile presence” issue, and Operation Famish, the expulsion of about 80 KGB/GRU officers in 1986).

If interested, please contact his son, Jeffrey, at jkuncapher@gmail.com, if you have any knowledge of Mr. Uncapher or his work.

Keith W. Uncapher

Longtime AFIO member seeks information on the career of his father, Keith W. Uncapher, an IC collaborator and White House advisor who worked along with close friend Jimmy Doolittle. He worked at RAND Corp 1950-1972. He reached the civilian rank of a three star in the Air Force, established the Information Sciences Institute at USC (leaving sometime in the eighties). He worked with DARPA, Center for Research Initiatives with Robert Kahn and was inducted in the Academy for Engineering. He was on the White House Scientific Advisory Board and was President of AFIPs in the Sixties.

If interested, please contact viveca.novak@gmail.com

Former CIA SE Division Branch Chiefs Between 1980 and 1994

Researcher working on project about her mother, a former CIA SE division desk chief, seeking former branch chiefs in the division between 1980 and 1994 to help with general descriptions of interrelationships and information flow. Also seeking officers who were in Rome station anytime between 1986-90.

If interested, please contact gabriel.gatehouse@gmail.com

CIA in 1970 FIFA World Cup or 1968 Olympic Games

Did the CIA watch soccer? I’m a British journalist and documentary maker (20 years at the BBC, now independent) working on a historical podcast series focusing on the 1970 FIFA World Cup (soccer), as well as the 1968 Olympic Games. I am trying to understand what operational interest, if any, the CIA took in these two sporting events, particularly in the context of the Cold War in Latin America. Since both events took place in Mexico, I am keen to speak to anyone specifically about either the CIA Mexico station at that time (under Win Scott and later John Horton), or - for broader context - about the Agency’s historical interest in sporting matters more generally. Anyone with insight into the involvement of the Brazilian government or security agencies in soccer during the 1970 World Cup (under Gen Medici) would also be of interest. Discretion is, of course, assured.

If interested, please contact Kevin Riehle at kevin.riehle@brunel.ac.uk, if you have a copy of the 1969 list, suggestions where it might be found in its entirety, or knowledge of any earlier lists in the series.

1969 KGB Wanted List

Researcher is seeking information about the document known in the West as the “KGB Wanted List,” the 1969 version of which was brought to the West by a KGB defector in 1972. Vladislav Krasnov analysed a portion of the list in his 1986 book titled “Soviet Defectors.” Both CIA and the FBI responded to FOIA requests indicating that they cannot find the 1969 list (although both CIA and NACIC have cited it in various forums).

If interested, please contact Kathy McLeod katherinemacleod@gmail.com

Walter E. McLeod

Child of former CIA Como Officer Walter E. McLeod seeks information on her father's life and work to help build a better understanding of the family's history. McLeod EODed in 1951 and served in Saipan, Havana, WTC, Caracas, Jakarta, Saigon, Paris, Phnom Penh, Vientiane, and Bangkok. He retired in 1975.

If interested, please contact and send your paper proposals to: elzbieta.pietrzyk@ipn.gov.pl

Need to Know XV: Intelligence and Minorities, Sønderborg/Flensburg, 26–27 November 2026

When does a societal group become a matter of intelligence and national security? This is a key question for intelligence services. When is someone becoming a threat and therefore a subject of surveillance and operations by intelligence agencies at home or abroad? A common pattern across many countries and political systems is that minority groups are more likely to be perceived as potential threats and therefore considered legitimate intelligence targets than a promising advantage and opportunity.

This year’s Need to Know conference focuses on minorities, whether national, ethnic, political, or religious, in the eyes of intelligence and counterintelligence services. National minorities for example challenge both the concept of the nation-state and, at times, existing borders. As a result, they are often mistrusted by the intelligence services of their host states as potential separatists, or in some cases instrumentalized by their kin states. And both religious and ethnic minorities were subject to massive repression by communist regimes during the Cold War. They were surveilled at home and often felt the long arm of foreign intelligence services in the diaspora, where they continued to be monitored.

Many factors influence decisions on when minorities become intelligence targets. Totalitarian regimes or authoritarian states decide differently than democracies. The degree of surveillance and the use of powerful intelligence tools against minorities may even serve as a measure of a state’s democratic maturity. Minority rights today constitute a core European value, yet they remain contested and complex, not only, but also for intelligence and security practice.

We hereby invite submissions for papers or panel proposals for this year’s Need to Know conference, which will take place in the heart of the Danish–German borderland—a region with a contested past. Intelligence has long played a role in national struggles over borders and in the surveillance of minorities. Although the region is now widely recognized as a model of peaceful coexistence, intelligence services on both sides of the border continued to monitor their respective national minorities well into the Cold War.

The Need to Know network welcomes submissions on this topic, especially empirically grounded studies addressing questions such as:

Legitimizing minorities as intelligence targets – reasons and rationales
Utilization of minorities by intelligence
Surveillance operations against national, ethnic, political, or religious minorities
Consequences of intelligence surveillance for minority communities
Covert actions against minorities or in minority-related conflicts
Intelligence operations abroad targeting minority representatives
Coordination between foreign and domestic intelligence
Differences between authoritarian and democratic systems in the handling of minority-related intelligence
De-escalation or termination of intelligence operations

The conference is organized by the Center for Cold War Studies at the University of Southern Denmark in cooperation with the Institute of National Remembrance – Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation; the Research Department of the Danish Central Library for Southern Schleswig; the King’s Centre for the Study of Intelligence, King’s College London; and the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Research on Consequences of War. The conference is in publication partnership with the Journals Aparat Represji w Polsce Ludowej and the International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence.

Accommodation and meals will be covered for presenters. The conference may also contribute to travel expenses upon application.

Deadline for paper proposals: 15 August 2026.

Submissions should include:

An abstract of 500–700 words in English

A biographical note (max. 250 words) listing major professional accomplishments

Young Researcher Table:

As part of the conference, the organizers also invite participants to discuss practices of intelligence research with a round table of junior researchers. The aims of the discussion are not finished projects or results but rather the ways and challenges of intelligence research. Presenting work in progress, the issues discussed will be differences of intelligence history to other historical topics, the challenge of finding adequate research questions and sources, and how the special conditions of intelligence research influence scholars.

The Conference Organizational Committee will notify selected speakers by Mid-September.

If interested, please contact Rose_McDermottt@Brown.edu

Special Issue on Psychology and Intelligence

Expressions of Interest: 1 February 2026 (Title/Abstract)
Initial Submission Deadline: 1 March 2027
Word Count: 7,000-10,000

Intelligence and National Security invites submissions for a special issue on Political Psychology and Intelligence. This issue seeks to highlight the intersection between intelligence gathering and analysis including career advancement, and the political and psychological factors that may influence it.

The special issue offers an opportunity to explore the ways in which intelligence gathering and analysis may be affected by political and psychological factors broadly constructed. This might include work on the way political or other biases might influence self-selection into intelligence work, procedures around recruitment, hiring and promotion, intelligence collection, analysis or interpretation of information. In addition, work that explores the way ubiquitous psychological biases can affect all aspects of the intelligence space, including the collection and processing of information is strongly encouraged.

The goal of the special issue is to highlight often unrecognized or ignored aspect of intelligence collection and analysis and to raise awareness of the role of psychological processes in intelligence. The journal of Intelligence and National Security is seeking research articles that investigate these themes in systematic and in-depth fashion. Articles enhancing theorical construction as well as empirical papers are welcome.

We invite research paper submissions that address, but are not limited to, the following themes:

The politicization of intelligence
Leadership analysis
The way specific psychological bias can influence intelligence collection or analysis
How psychology might be useful in counterintelligence programs
How psychological factors enter into decisions to join the intelligence community
How political bias can influence the interpretation of data
Personality effects on intelligence work
How and whether psychological analysis of adversaries can provide useful information

If interested, please contact Mark Durkee, Principal Investigator, School of Security and Global Studies

Current or Former Defense Intelligence Enterprise Professionals

Are you interested in contributing to research on all-source analytical expertise in the Defense Intelligence Enterprise? We are seeking individuals with at least five years of all-source analysis experience at the Defense Intelligence Agency, including the Joint Intelligence Operations Centers, Missiles and Space Intelligence Center, and the Service Intelligence Centers. This study involves a questionnaire about your and education experiences. An optional follow-on 45-minute interview is available for those who would like to contribute to a deeper understanding of all-source analytic expertise. Participation in the interview will be compensated.

If interested, please contact carlos.lopez@unt.edu, if you are interested in participating or have questions regarding whether you qualify.

Current or Former Intelligence Professionals

Are you interested in contributing to research on how intelligence and decision-makers collaborate? We are seeking individuals with professional experience in intelligence operations, either in current or previous roles within law enforcement, military departments, federal agencies, or the private sector. We are particularly interested in those who have been involved in collecting, analyzing, and disseminating intelligence that directly informs organizational goals/missions. We also seek those who have been in roles that make decisions based on such intelligence. This study involves an interview lasting approximately 1 hour to explore your experiences and contribute to a deeper understanding of this critical area of collaboration. Participation in the interview will be compensated.

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Jobs

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Associate or Full Professor of Security Studies - University of Texas at El Paso [NEW]

Job Description:

The Department of Criminal Justice & Security Studies (CJ&SS) at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) is seeking to fill one full-time position in Intelligence and National Security Studies beginning in Fall 2027 at the Associate or Full Professor level. Responsibilities include conducting and publishing scholarly research, seeking extramural funding, teaching face-to-face and online courses, and service to the department, university, and profession.

Requirements:

Applicants must have a Ph.D. from an accredited university in security studies, political science, public policy, history, psychology, criminal justice, or a closely related discipline. ABD applicants will be considered if a doctorate degree will be in hand by Fall 2027. An active research agenda that includes scholarly publications is required to apply. Applicants possessing only a J.D., Psy.D., or Ed.D. will not be considered.

Preferred Qualifications:

Areas of expertise are open, but preference will be given to candidates with expertise and a research agenda in advanced technologies in intelligence and national security, broadly conceived. This primarily includes influence operations and disinformation; cyber warfare, cyber operations, cyber security, or cybercrime; Artificial Intelligence (AI) policy; and possibly others. It also includes the technical aspects of collection and analysis, especially SIGINT, GEOINT, MASINT, or technical collection in contested environments.

Application Instructions:

Applicants must electronically submit: (1) a letter of interest that includes teaching areas and research expertise, (2) curriculum vita (please use APA format when listing publications), (3) one scholarly publication, (4) a one-page research plan for the next 3 years; and (5) the names and full contact information of three references that we may contact. If you have questions about the position, please contact the Search Committee Chair, Dr. Misty Duke at mcduke@utep.edu.

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Professor or Associate Professor of Open-Source Intelligence, University of Texas at El Paso

The Department of Criminal Justice & Security Studies at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) is seeking to fill a faculty position for a new open-source intelligence (OSINT) laboratory, created to be the first of its kind to study the complex security issues within the U.S.-Mexico border region. The faculty member will serve as the lead researcher of the Open-Source Lab and help lead efforts to establish the nation’s premier institution analyzing U.S. Mexican border security, including how it is impacted by political, social, physical, and economic forces across (and beyond) the Western Hemisphere.

Required Qualifications:

Ph.D. from an accredited university in security studies, political science, public policy, or a closely related discipline to intelligence studies.
Experience leading complex projects
Success in securing extramural funding and/or the ability to leverage government funds to sustain large-scale projects.
Understanding of modern intelligence technology and tools.

Preferred Areas: We are seeking candidates who have demonstrated research expertise in one or more of the following areas: open-source intelligence; intelligence collection and management; intelligence analysis; national security

Professional experience in these areas within the intelligence and national security fields is welcomed.

Application Review Date: The review of applications will begin March 31, 2026, and will continue until the position is filled.

Advertiser, Corporate Sponsor, and Other Events

IIHA 2026 Annual Conference in conjunction with Georgetown University’s Kalaris Conference

29 Sep 2026 - International Spy Museum and Georgetown University, Washington, DC
1 Oct 2026 - 12pm

Allies and Adversaries: U.S.-European Intelligence Relations

There will be no conference fee, however, only coffee breaks will be catered. To register for the conference, please visit the conference page: Annual Conference 2026, 29 September – 1 October 2026, Washington DC, USA

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2026 ERII Counterespionage Conference

5 Oct 2026 - Executive Conference Center | Arlington, VA
6 Oct 2026

Join ERII members, and Counterespionage, Counterintelligence and TSCM professionals from across the globe to discuuss TSCM, cyber, counterespionage, and counterintelligence news and events, see demonstrations of new TSCM equipment and network with colleagues.

Conference speakers will be announced shortly. If you are interested in speaking at the 2026 ERII Counterespionage Conference, please send and email to jdl@erii.org

Virtual Member Event: A Conversation with Meredith Woodruff ^[NEW]

7 Oct 2026 - Virtual International Spy Museum Program
6:30pm

Please join us for a conversation with Meredith Woodruff, who retired from the CIA as its most senior female officer in operations. She holds the CIA’s most prestigious awards, which include the Donovan Award for Operational Excellence and the Distinguished Career Intelligence Medal. Upon retirement, Meredith served as vice president of Ntrepid, a large risk mitigation technology company. She also founded COPIA, an international executive coaching and management consulting company headquartered in Washington, D.C. She is also a partner in Spycraft Entertainment, which are Hollywood executive producers working to portray intelligence officers and operations more realistically. Meredith will be interviewed by Kevin Place, Museum Interpretation Manager. This special members-only event will explore Meredith’s career journey, the evolving role of women in intelligence, and the realities behind the headlines. Attendees will also have the opportunity to ask Meredith questions during a live Q&A. This event is free of charge and open exclusively to Spy Museum members. You can join SPY as a member online or by calling 202.654.2840. Questions? Please email membership@spymuseum.org.

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NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE HISTORY CONFERENCE (NIHC)

14 Oct 2026 - Fellowship Auditorium and Block E Learning Centre at Bletchley Park | Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, UK
1:00pm-8:00pm

The National Intelligence History Conference (NIHC), organised by Bletchley Park and GCHQ. This academic conference is open to all who have an interest in intelligence history. Visit the Bletchley Park website for ADDITIONAL CONFERENCE INFORMATION and to Book Tickets.

Safeguarding America's Research ^[NEW]

15 Oct 2026 - Laureate Center Kannapolis, NC
8am-5:30pm

NSPM-33 Update: University Protection of Quantum Research; and, Nation-State Threats.

This event is a must attend for anyone doing US Government funded research! We will explore the likely upcoming significant changes to the implementation of NSPM-33, University Protection of Quantum Research, that affects every research institution and every research activity the institution undertakes. We will provide additional details on the speakers. Suffice it to say we have a robust line up already committed and significant time set aside for questions! Save the date and pass it along to your colleagues. You don't want to miss this educational event!

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Access to SPY: An Evening for Neurodivent Adults ^[NEW]

18 Oct 2026 - In-Person International Spy Museum Program, Washington, DC
8:00pm

The International Spy Museum is excited to bring back our popular sensory friendly program designed exclusively for neurodivergent adults and their friends and family (18 years and up)! What might be a mission impossible visit during normal operating hours is now mission possible! On this special night, guests are invited to enjoy a private social hour (5:00 – 6:00 PM) featuring the opportunity to meet a former spy, test their code cracking skills, get in disguise, and more! Then, from 6:00 – 8:00 PM, guests will have exclusive access to the Museum’s exhibits where they can explore the Museum with less noise, fewer people, and a designated quiet area. Guests can also participate in a scavenger hunt and win various prizes! This is an open-house style event so guests can arrive and leave at any time during the evening. Pre-visit resources will be sent prior to the event. Event is free of cost, but advanced registration is required.

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The Havana Syndrome with Michael Rey and Oriana Zill de Granados ^[NEW]

22 Oct 2026 - Virtual and In Person International Spy Museum Program, Washington, DC
6:30pm

For nearly a decade, US diplomats, spies, and soldiers around the world have reported sudden, devastating neurological injuries – symptoms eerily consistent with exposure to a directed energy weapon. Victims were told their illnesses were “psychosomatic.” Government agencies dismissed the evidence. And the CIA insisted no adversary was behind it. As the cases grew, from Havana to Hanoi, the media dubbed the phenomenon “the Havana Syndrome.” Award-winning 60 Minutes producers Michael Rey and Oriana Zill de Granados have combed through more than nine years of reporting, secret medical records, whistleblower testimony, and intelligence reports, and even attended a past Spy Museum program on the topic, to write their new book The Havana Syndrome: Secret Weapons, a Government Cover-Up, and the Greatest Spy Mystery of Our Time. This evening, International Spy Museum SpyCast podcast host and HUMINT Substack founder, Sasha Ingber sits down with Rey and Zill de Granados to discuss their findings regarding an unseen highly specialized weapon that has left dozens of victims with life altering injuries. They’ll discuss the early attacks in Cuba and China, the spread of incidents across global hotspots from Tbilisi to Vienna and reveal the mounting evidence implicating an elite Russian “kill” unit.

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In-Store Book Signing: The Generosity of Scars and Operation Pineapple Express ^[NEW]

24 Oct 2026 - International Spy Museum Store Event
2:00pm-4:00pm

Join us in the Spy Museum Store for a special book signing event for The Generosity of Scars: How Your Stories of Struggles Can Change Lives - Especially Your Own and Operation Pineapple Express: The Incredible Story of a Group of Americans Who Undertook One Last Mission and Honored a Promise in Afghanistan with author Scott Mann. Lt. Col. Scott Mann is a retired Green Beret with over twenty-two years of Army and Special Operations experience around the world. He has deployed to Ecuador, Colombia, Peru, Iraq, and Afghanistan. He is the CEO of Rooftop Leadership and the founder of a 501c3 committed to helping veterans tell their stories in transition.

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Misread Signals with Dermot Turing ^[NEW]

26 Oct 2026 - Virtual and In-Person International Spy Museum Program
6:30pm

Bletchley Park is remembered as a land of male intellectuals who were supported by a staff of women in menial roles. But this is not the whole story. Women were not just secretaries and assistants: they had serious full-on codebreaking roles. And this was not just at Bletchley, or in the UK, or even only in the Second World War. American women like Agnes Driscoll and Mary C. Lane did codebreaking during the war, as did Ann Caracristi and Elizebeth Friedman. Yet, when the histories were written, the women got left out. Who were they? What did they achieve? How did they ‘vanish’? Find out tonight, as codebreaking historian and Spy Museum Honorary Board Member Dermot Turing turns the spotlight on some of the long-ignored women featured in his new book Misread Signals: How History Overlooked Women Codebreakers. Visit www.spymuseum.org.

SPY with Me: Memory Loss Program: Program for Individuals with Dementia and their Care Partners ^[NEW]

27 Oct 2026 - Virtual International Spy Museum Program
2:00pm-3:00pm

SPY with Me is an interactive virtual program for individuals living with dementia and their care partners. Join SPY as we use music and artifacts to explore some of our favorite spy stories. Programs last one hour and are held virtually through Zoom. To register, please email Shana Oltmans at soltmans@spymuseum.org. Free but space is limited. Visit www.spymuseum.org.

Spy Chat with Chris Costa featuring Special Guest Dr. Deborah Wituski ^[NEW]

29 Oct 2026 - Virtual International Spy Museum Program | Washington, DC
12:00pm

Join us for an online discussion of the latest intelligence, national security, and terrorism issues in the news. Spy Museum Executive Director Chris Costa will lead the briefing. Costa, a former intelligence officer of 34 years with 25 of those in active duty in hot spots such as Panama, Bosnia, Afghanistan, and Iraq, is also a past Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Counterterrorism on the National Security Council. He will be joined by Dr. Deborah Wituski, former Vice President of Global Engagement at Google & Alphabet. Wituski is now the Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan Distinguished Professor of Practice at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced and International Studies. From 2023-2025, at Google & Alphabet, she led the Office of the President and Chief Investment Officer. She previously served as Vice President for Resilience & Risk Foresight at Google. Before joining Google, Wituski held various senior leadership positions during a 20-year career in the US Intelligence Community, notably as Chief of Staff to the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency and Chief of Staff to the Deputy Director of CIA. She also served as Deputy Assistant Director of CIA for Counterterrorism and held leadership positions in the National Security Branch of the FBI and in the National Counterterrorism Center.

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Cold War Museum Inaugural Annual Gathering Recognizing Chris Pocock ^[NEW]

12 Nov 2026 - 7172 Lineweaver Rd, Warrenton, VA 20187
More Details to Come

Save the date for the inaugural Annual Gathering of The Cold War Museum, honoring Chris Pocock, the renowned British aviation writer and foremost authority on the U-2 program. Author of three definitive histories of the aircraft, and the only foreign civilian ever to fly the U-2, he has done more than anyone to preserve its story and legacy.

Tickets: $80
Table Sponsor: $750
Table sponsorships include event signage and recognition.
Seating will be limited.

Netherlands Intelligence Studies Association (NISA) International Conference

2 Dec 2026 - The Hague Conference Centre New Babylon, the Netherlands
3 Dec 2026 - 9:00am-4:30pm

This conference explores how intelligence and security services can remain resilient, independent, and legitimate within a democratic framework. We look forward to welcoming a diverse and interdisciplinary group of contributors to engage in a discussion on the future of intelligence in resilient democracies.

Registration is now open, and members of the public are warmly invited to register. To register, please send an email from your institutional or organisational email address (students: from your university email address) to conference@nisa-intelligence.nl. After your registration has been reviewed and approved, you will receive a confirmation email. Regular participants and full-time students will receive an invoice with details for payment of the conference fee. Your registration is final after payment has been received.

Member Opportunities

Research and Academic Requests

Assistance needed in contacting former U.S. intelligence officers with knowledge of Soviet and Russian intelligence activity in Japan [NEW]

Researching Tom Karamessines

Interviews for "Oxford Handbook of Women in Intelligence"

Interview Subjects

Researching Soviet Spying and the Reagan Administration

Keith W. Uncapher

Former CIA SE Division Branch Chiefs Between 1980 and 1994

CIA in 1970 FIFA World Cup or 1968 Olympic Games

1969 KGB Wanted List

Walter E. McLeod

Need to Know XV: Intelligence and Minorities, Sønderborg/Flensburg, 26–27 November 2026

Special Issue on Psychology and Intelligence

Current or Former Defense Intelligence Enterprise Professionals

Current or Former Intelligence Professionals

Jobs

Associate or Full Professor of Security Studies - University of Texas at El Paso [NEW]

Job Description:

Requirements:

Application Instructions:

Professor or Associate Professor of Open-Source Intelligence, University of Texas at El Paso

Advertiser, Corporate Sponsor, and Other Events

IIHA 2026 Annual Conference in conjunction with Georgetown University’s Kalaris Conference

Allies and Adversaries: U.S.-European Intelligence Relations

2026 ERII Counterespionage Conference

Virtual Member Event: A Conversation with Meredith Woodruff [NEW]

NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE HISTORY CONFERENCE (NIHC)

Safeguarding America's Research [NEW]

Access to SPY: An Evening for Neurodivent Adults [NEW]

The Havana Syndrome with Michael Rey and Oriana Zill de Granados [NEW]

In-Store Book Signing: The Generosity of Scars and Operation Pineapple Express [NEW]

Misread Signals with Dermot Turing [NEW]

SPY with Me: Memory Loss Program: Program for Individuals with Dementia and their Care Partners [NEW]

Spy Chat with Chris Costa featuring Special Guest Dr. Deborah Wituski [NEW]

Cold War Museum Inaugural Annual Gathering Recognizing Chris Pocock [NEW]

Netherlands Intelligence Studies Association (NISA) International Conference

Virtual Member Event: A Conversation with Meredith Woodruff ^[NEW]

Safeguarding America's Research ^[NEW]

Access to SPY: An Evening for Neurodivent Adults ^[NEW]

The Havana Syndrome with Michael Rey and Oriana Zill de Granados ^[NEW]

In-Store Book Signing: The Generosity of Scars and Operation Pineapple Express ^[NEW]

Misread Signals with Dermot Turing ^[NEW]

SPY with Me: Memory Loss Program: Program for Individuals with Dementia and their Care Partners ^[NEW]

Spy Chat with Chris Costa featuring Special Guest Dr. Deborah Wituski ^[NEW]

Cold War Museum Inaugural Annual Gathering Recognizing Chris Pocock ^[NEW]