Counterintelligence Training

This strategic-focused course designed for employees of the US Intelligence Community.

 

Its overall purpose is to introduce, in a historical context, foreign denial and deception (D&D) operations that have had significant influence and impact on US national security policy formulation, and our ability to identify, assess and counter foreign D&D activities.

 

Our primary goal is to enhance counter-denial and deception effectiveness throughout the US Intelligence Community by accomplishing the following objectives:

 

1) increasing student knowledge of the subject,

 

2) sensitizing them to the deleterious effects of successful foreign D&D attacks on US national policymaking targets, and

 

3) creating a great appreciation of other countries D&D strengths, practices and capabilities.

 

The Centre for Counterintelligence and Security Studies (CI Centre) instructor team will accomplish these objectives through the use of historical examples, case studies, audio-visual and computer generated aids, and the sharing of personal "first-hand" experiences of foreign D&D subject matter experts and operational practitioners.

 

The knowledge provided by these means will be further reinforced by instructor-led discussions following each key instructional block.

 

In order to provide meaningful context and analytic baseline to the course curriculum, CI Centre instructors will describe and regularly refer to the US national security decision-making process and how strategic information and intelligence is received, evaluated, disseminated and integrated by the President, his policymakers, the National Security Council and its staff.

 

As a counterpoint to this decision-making model, the course will juxtapose an array of foreign D&D techniques, methods, and planning processes used to implement and execute D&D operations against the US.

 

In this regard, the course will address a number of D&D approaches to include agents of influence, covert funding, control of media, forgeries, double agents and manipulation of mass organizations.