361 The Global Jihadist Threat Doctrine

362 Informant Development for Law Enforcement Officers

560 Middle Eastern Intelligence Services and Terrorist Organizations

515 Interviewing Techniques: Basic to Advanced

518 Espionage Investigations and Interviewing Techniques

512 Counterintelligence Asset Validation

562 Counterterrorism Asset Validation

525 Cross Cultural Communications

500 The Security Profession: Dilemmas, Decisions and Advocacy

362 Informant Development for Law Enforcement Officers

501 An Overview of Critical Counterintelligence Issues

502 Double Agentry: Offensive Counterintelligence Operations

503 Counterespionage Today: Complexities and Decisions

205 National Security Policy and Counterintelligence Implications of Denial and Deception Practices

250 The Secret History of History: The Impact of Intelligence and Counterintelligence on World Events

560 Middle Eastern Intelligence Services and Terrorist Organizations

267 An Introduction to Hezbollah

263 Saudi Arabian and Iraqi Intelligence Services

270 Iranian Intelligence

220 Israeli Intelligence

165 The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict and the Israeli Intelligence Response

207 PRC Intelligence

159 Cuban Intelligence

191 Russia's SVR/FSB/GRU

101 Elicitation Techniques and the Recruitment Process

107 Chinese Cyber Trends

115 SpyDrive: Washington, DC

200 Counterintelligence Realities for Analysts

120 SpyMaryland

121 SpyVirginia

208 Robert P. Hanssen Course and SpyDrive^®

105 The John Walker Case: Implications and Lessons Learned for Today's Challenges

140 Women in Espionage 

150 Current Counterespionage Cases

125 The SIGINT/COMINT (Information Assurance) Spies

103 Security Briefing for the Global Corporate Employee

202 Vulnerabilities of an Intelligence Officer

203 Vulnerabilities of Global Travel: Personnel & Information Protection

204 Safe Foreign Travel

101 Elicitation Techniques and the Recruitment Process

600 Tactical Response to the Active Shooter

260 Terrorist-Insurgent Attacks: Techniques, Tactics & Strategies

561 The War on Terror: A Practical Response

Saving Jobs: Protecting Our Information, Protecting Our Company and Protecting Our Employees

You at the Crisis Moment: How Will You and Should You Respond?

Chinese Cyber Trends: The 21st Century Battlefield

The Bear is Back: Today's Russian Threats

A Look Back . . . Benjamin Franklin: Founding Father of Covert Action

With the beginning of the Revolutionary War came the birth of American intelligence. Since then, the tradecraft of intelligence has been developed and improved to better protect our nation. Our nation’s birthday is a good time to reflect on how intelligence tradecraft began.  (CIA)

U.S. takes aim at cyberwarfare

Keep an Eye on Kazakhstan

. . . .Kazakhstan is the 2nd largest producer of uranium in the world and has, by far, the largest uranium reserves in Eurasia. The only country that has more uranium than Kazakhstan is Australia, but Australia can never wield the influence over the Muslim world that Kazakhstan can wield. Nuclear energy speaks volumes in today's world.

     Shimon Peres had multiple agendas in going to Kazakhstan. One of those reasons was expanding relations between Israel and a significant Muslim country. Another reason had to do with nuclear energy. Peres wanted assurances that Kazakhstan would not be supplying nuclear fuel to Iran. The promises were received, but promises from Kazakhstan are not completely reliable.

     Last year I wrote about a train that departed from Kyrgyzstan, crossed into Kazakhstan and then crossed the border into Uzbekistan where it was intercepted and stopped. The train was making its way to Iran. The train was filled with uranium. It had already traveled through and crossed over the entire Kazakh before it was stopped on the Uzebeki side of the border.

     The Uzebeki border guards were shocked to find the uranium. They sent it back and alerted the Kazakh government. In retrospect, that was probably not the wisest move. According to most people in the know, including International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Mohammed el Baradei, Kazakhstan is one of the most nuclear-trafficked states in the world.

     Uranium is for Kazakhstan what oil is for Saudi Arabia. Every country will want it, many countries will need it and Kazakhstan will be one of the only countries that has it. Estimates for the revenue Kazakhstan will reap exporting their natural resource are coming in high, as high as $15 - $20 billion a year for this sleepy little Asian Muslim country.

     Central Asia is the future battlefield for the conflict between East and West. It is where Islam retains a strong moderate tradition, it is also where the Fundamentalist population is growing. Kazakhstan realizes that it is coming of age and that it will very soon be in control of the world's supply of nuclear fuel much the same way OPEC is in control of the world's oil production and supply.  (FrontPage)

India, Kazakhstan working on inter-governmental nuke energy cooperation pact

India and Kazakhstan are actively working to finalize the inter-governmental agreement for cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, revealed Kazakhstan’s Ambassador to India, Dr. Kairat Umarov, during an interaction with select media on Tuesday evening.  (Thaindian)

Iranians walk out when President Peres speaks at Kazakhstan parley

Iranian delegates walked out of an interfaith conference in Kazakhstan yesterday when President Shimon Peres got up to speak.
     The Iranian delegation was headed by Mehdi Mostafavi, a senior advisor to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. He returned to the room only after Peres had finished speaking.
     That the speech would not pass smoothly had been clear from the moment the Iranians learned that Peres was to be the guest of honor at the conference: They promptly threatened not to participate at all. Not only is Peres not a religious leader, they charged, "he is a man of violence."  (Haaretz)

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Somalia: Islamists Behead Two Sons of Christian Leader

Tanzania: Two Church Buildings Burned Down in Zanzibar

Interview: Violence in Iran: What the West Needs to Know – Part One of a Series, ‘Three Questions for Dr. Walid Phares’ (Walid Phares)

Face-to-face with Afghanistan's opium addiction

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