World-Class Team of Experts

David G. Major

• Founder and President, CI Centre

• A leading authority, expert and teacher on counterintelligence and counterterrorism

• Senior FBI Executive

• FBI career focused on counterintelligence, counterterrorism

• Counterintelligence Advisor to President Reagan, National Security Council

• Board Member: Association For Intelligence Officers (AFIO) and International Spy Museum

• US Army veteran

• Total Years of Experience for you to benefit and learn from: 43

Connie Huff Allen

• Vice President for Training & Education, CI Centre

• Senior US Army Counterintelligence Special Agent

• Masters of Education degree, Boston University

• Senior Instructor, US Army Advanced Counterintelligence Training Center

• Senior Counterespionage Investigator in a Desert Shield/Desert Storm Espionage Case

• 1992 Department of Defense "Investigator of the Year"

• US Army veteran

• Total Years of Experience for you to benefit and learn from: 34

Susan H. Adams, PhD

• FBI Supervisory Special Agent

• Senior Training Agent in the FBI's Counterintelligence Training Unit

• Expert in counterintelligence, interviewing and interrogation, detection of deception, interpersonal communication and linguistic text analysis

• Adjunct instructor, University of Virginia

• Recipient of the University of Virginia Jefferson Award in 2004 for excellence in research; her research examined indicators of the likelihood of veracity and deception in criminal statements written by suspects and victims

• Total Years of Experience for you to benefit and learn from: 28

Bart Bechtel

• CIA Operations Officer

• Extensive world-wide travel throughout Europe, North America, Asia, South East Asia, China, Russia and the Mediterranean

• Expert in physical surveillance and surveillance detection, threat recognition and observation skills

• Background in domestic and international terrorism matters, crisis management, and issues related to WMD proliferation

• Assistant Chief Academic Officer, Henley-Putnam University

• US Navy veteran

• Total Years of Experience for you to benefit and learn from: 31

Robert Booth

• Senior US State Department official

• Deputy Director, State Department's Office of Counterintelligence

• Regional State Department Security Officer posted at US Embassies in Paris, France; Port-au-Prince, Haiti; Tokyo, Japan; Geneva, Switzerland; and Beijing, China

• Expert in domestic and foreign environments with special expertise in areas of personnel safety, building security and criminal investigations

• Total Years of Experience for you to benefit and learn from: 35

David Charney, MD

• Founder and Medical Director of Roundhouse Square Psychiatric Center, in Alexandria, VA

• Expert on the Psychology of the Spy

• Psychiatric consultant to three spies after they were arrested:

   • Earl Pitts, Robert Hanssen, Brian Regan

• Developer of the Concept: Life Stages of the Spy

• Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, George Washington University Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

• Total Years of Experience for you to benefit and learn from: 30

Stephen Coughlin, Esq

• Attorney; Major in the US Army Reserves, military intelligence

• Specialist on Islamic Sharia Law, Islamic doctrine and ideology, and strategic information/War of Ideas

• Experience in international law, intelligence, strategic communications and project management to develop unique perspectives, assessments and training relating to the intersection of national security and law

• Masters degree in Strategic Intelligence, with a focus on global terrorism and Jihadist movements; and, the JD from the William Mitchell School of Law

• US Army veteran

• Total Years of Experience for you to benefit and learn from: 20

Nonie Darwish

• Daughter of a senior Egyptian military intelligence officer who led the Fedayeen against Israel and was later assassinated, becoming a “shahid”

• Writer, public speaker and an interpreter on radical Islam and Sharia Law

•Author of Now They Call Me Infidel: Why I Renounced Jihad for America, Israel and the War on Terror, 2006

• Author of Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law, 2008

• Total Years of Experience for you to benefit and learn from: 33

Peter Earnest

• CIA clandestine operations officer with tours in Europe, Middle East

• Senior CIA executive, including Director of Public Affairs, Senate Liaison

• Awarded CIA Intelligence Medal for Merit

• Executive Director, International Spy Museum in Washington, DC

• Chairman, Association for Intelligence Officers (AFIO)

• Accomplished speaker, expert in media relations, crisis management

• US Marine Corps veteran

• Total Years of Experience for you to benefit and learn from: 54

Tawfik Hamid, MD

• Former member of the extremist Islamic group Jamaa Islamia (Islamic Group) in Egypt

• Knew Dr. Ayman Al-Zawahiri, bin Laden's second in command

• Expert on the radicalization process of Jihadists, jihadi mindset

• Islamic thinker and reformer; writer and lecturer on radical Islam

• Author of The Roots of Jihad and Inside Jihad

• Holds a degrees in Internal Medicine, and Education

• Total Years of Experience for you to benefit and learn from: 43

Noel Jones

• Senior US Army military intelligence officer

• Leading expert in strategic offensive counterintelligence operations, double agentry

• First and longest serving Director of Operations, US Army's Foreign Counterintelligence Activity

• Masters degree in Education

• Graduate of the FBI National Academy and the US Armed Forces Staff College

• US Army veteran

• Total Years of Experience for you to benefit and learn from: 45

Tony Jordan

• Senior CIA executive in the Senior Intelligence Service

• Operations officer and expert recruiter who served in seven field tours

• Held several senior management positions in the CIA's Counterintelligence Center, Director of Operations

• Deputy Director of DS&T/Office of Technical Services (OTS) in the CIA

• Awarded CIA Distinguished Intelligence Medal, DCI Intelligence Collector of the Year, DIA's Director Award, National Clandestine Service Donovan Award

• US Air Force veteran, pilot

• Total Years of Experience for you to benefit and learn from: 40

"K"

• Middle Eastern counterterrorism operative

• Real-life expertise about a number of terrorist organizations and method of operations

Oleg Kalugin, Major General, ret

• KGB Major General

• Former Chief, KGB Foreign Counterintelligence (Directorate KR)

• Former Deputy Chief and Acting Chief, KGB Rezidency at Soviet Embassy

• Youngest General in KGB History

• Pro-Democracy activitst; elected to the Soviet Parliament

• Author, The First Chief Directorate: My 32 Years in Intelligence and Espionage Against the West

• Board Member: International Spy Museum

• Total Years of Experience for you to benefit and learn from: 44

Clare Lopez

• Senior CIA Clandestine Operations Officer with tours in Africa, Central/South America and the Balkans, with a focus on the USSR/Russia

• Senior level intelligence consultant and strategic policy analyst

• Strong expertise in HUMINT project management including counterintelligence, counternarcotics, counterproliferation, WMD, and Advanced Conventional Weapons threat arenas

• University lecturer, public events speaker, and published author on Middle East, Iran, Arab and Islamic culture, WMD, and transnational terrorism issues

• Vice President of The Intelligence Summit, a non-profit educational forum

• Member of the Board of Directors, Institute of World Affairs

• Total Years of Experience for you to benefit and learn from: 29

"M"

• FBI asset working against Russian intelligence targets

• Unique knowledge of recruitment and elicitation

John L. Martin, Esq

• Senior US Department of Justice Executive

• Supervised the prosecution of espionage cases for the Justice Department for 26 years

• Successfully brought charges against 75 spies

• Worked on the MIBURN (Mississippi Burning) case when a Special Agent in the FBI

• Worked for the release of agents and political prisoners (including Russian dissident Anatoli Shcharansky) being held in Russia and Eastern Europe which led to transfer on East Berlin's Glienicke bridge

• Received Attorney General’s Exceptional Service Award

• Board Member: Association For Intelligence Officers (AFIO)

• Total Years of Experience for you to benefit and learn from: 43

H. Keith Melton

• Renowned intelligence and military historian and author

• Leading expert and authority on clandestine devices and equipment, spy technology

• Has world's largest collection of spy devices, books, uniforms, papers and equipment from US, Russian, East Germany and others

• Author of several books on espionage, including the well-known and regarded Ultimate Spy

• Co-author with CIA officer Robert Wallace of Spycraft: The Secret History of the CIA's Spytechs, from Communism to al-Qaeda, and The Official CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception

• Advisor to US Intelligence Community

• Board Member: International Spy Museum

• US Naval Academy graduate

• Total Years of Experience for you to benefit and learn from: 43

Jonna Mendez

• CIA technical operations officer with tours in Europe, Far East and the Sub-continent

• Chief of Disguise, CIA, Office of Technical Services (OTS)

• Awarded CIA's Intelligence Commendation Medal

• Co-author of Spy Dust: Two Masters of Disguise Reveal the Tools and Operations That Helped Win the Cold War with husband Tony Mendez

• Board Member: International Spy Museum

• Accomplished photographer

• Advisor, consultant to various organizations and media documentaries

• Total Years of Experience for you to benefit and learn from: 43

Tony Mendez

• Senior CIA executive in the Directorate of Science & Technology

• Chief of Disguise and Chief of the Graphics and Authentication Division, CIA, Office of Technical Services (OTS)

• Awarded Intelligence Star for Valor for engineering and conducting the rescue of six U.S. diplomats from Iran during the hostage crisis

• Named one of 50 "CIA Trailblazers" during 50th Anniversary of CIA

• Author of Master of Disguise: My Secret Life in the CIA

• Board Member: International Spy Museum

• Advisor, consultant to various organizations and media documentaries

• Total Years of Experience for you to benefit and learn from: 44

Walid Phares, PhD

• Author, analyst and speaker on terrorism, Jihadist movements and strategies worldwide, the War of Ideas, Arab-Israeli Conflict, Human Rights under Islamist regimes, ethnic minorities, women, and democratic processes within the Greater Middle East and the Muslim world, and international relations of civilizations

• Author of Future Jihad: Terrorist Strategies against the West, The War of Ideas: Jihadism against Democracy, and The Confrontation: Winning the War against Future Jihad

• Senior Fellow and the director for Future Terrorism Project at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies in Washington

• Professor, National Defense University

• Masters in International Law from the Universite de Lyons in France; PhD in International Relations and Strategic Studies from the University of Miami

• Total Years of Experience for you to benefit and learn from: 30

"R"

• Intelligence officer in the Cuban Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Interior

John R. "Jack" Schafer, PhD

• FBI Special Agent assigned to FBI's National Security Behavioral Analysis Program

• Author of Psychological Narrative Analysis: A Professional Method to Detect Deception in Written and Oral Communications

• Co-author of Advanced Interviewing Techniques: Proven Strategies for Law Enforcement, MIlitary and Security Personnel

• Total Years of Experience for you to benefit and learn from: 25

Brian Weidner

• Senior FBI Supervisory Special Agent

• Specialized in field operations against terrorist and intelligence threats presented by Middle Eastern Countries Designated as State Sponsors of Terrorism (Iran, Syria, Iraq, Libya)

• Worked on the investigations of the Pan Am Flight 103 case, 1998 US Embassy bombings, and the 9/11 Attacks

• Supervised new squad investigation counterterrorism, counterintelligence, and related criminal matters relating to countries on the Arabian Peninsula.

• Expert in Middle-Eastern organizations designated as terrorist groups (to include PFLP, PFLP-GC, Hezbollah, HAMAS), the recruitment and handling of informants and sources, WMD

• Graduate of Hazardous Devise School, (Bomb Technician) and FBI Crisis negotiation School

• US Army veteran

• Total Years of Experience for you to benefit and learn from: 25

Nigel West

• Renowned British intelligence and military historian and author

• Author of over 35 books on security, intelligence, secret service and espionage issues

• Books include: VENONA: The Greatest Secret of the Cold War, Operation GARBO, The Historical Dictionary of Cold War Counterintelligence, Mortal Crimes: The Greatest Theft in History: Soviet Penetration of the Manhattan Project, Historical Dictionary of British Intelligence, On Her Majesty's Secret Service: The Chiefs of Britain's Intelligence Agency, MI6 and many others

• Former Conservative Member of the British Parliament for 10 years

• Editor of The Guy Liddell Diaries, a daily journal of the wartime work of MI5's Director of Counter-Espionage

• Recipient of the Association for Intelligence Officers (AFIO)'s Lifetime Literature Achievement Award

• Total Years of Experience for you to benefit and learn from: 34