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David Gutschmit, former National Counterintelligence Officer for East Asia and retired CIA Senior Ops Officer reviews Pressure a film by director Anthony Maras on the WIN Short-Form Reviews page.
Interview conducted 25 August 2026 with Trum Soule, retired Senior NSA Officer, discussing SIGINT - Signals Intelligence.afio-now-interviews.html
Interview conducted 27 August 2026 with Joby Warrick, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, National Security Correspondent/Report for The Washington Post, and author of just released "The Jackal: The Rise and Fall of Carlos, the World's First Super-Terrorist."
The open-source intelligence (OSINT) discipline celebrates 85 years this month. In February 1941 the Foreign Broadcast Monitoring Service (FBMS) was formally established by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The OSINT discipline expanded beyond FBMS' broadcast intercepts to include print media exploitation when the Interdepartmental Committee for the Acquisition of Foreign Publications (IDC) of the Library of Congress was established in December 1941.
The OSS Society hosted its William J. Donovan Award® Dinner - the preeminent annual gathering of the US intelligence and special operations communities - in Washington, DC, on October 18, 2025. A sold-out crowd of 700 people filled the ballroom at the Ritz-Carlton for the 36th presentation of the award since its inception in 1961.
On 2 May 2025, AFIO held its National IC Luncheon with speakers Michael Ellis, CIA Deputy Director, and David Cattler, Director, Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency.
To commemorate the 81st anniversary of D-Day, The OSS Seciety is honored to share their award-winning short documentary, Operation Overlord: OSS and the Battle for France.
Three excerpts from our When Intelligence Made a Difference series in the latest issue of The Intelligencer are available, including the two main articles. James Roth, a former CIA officer, revisits the story of The Trust, a Bolshevik deception operation in the 1920s targeted at its opponents in Europe. In Korea, despite having good intelligence on Chinese movements, General MacArthur’s handling of intelligence failed to prevent the disaster at the battle of the Chosin Reservoir. Alan Cunningham dissects the problems within MacArthur’s intelligence elements.
AFIO is seeking authors for its section on "When Intelligence Made a Difference" in the semi-annual Intelligencer journal.