CI/Foreign Intel Services Training

This course examines the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s intelligence services that have been working closely with the United States against the terrorist threats posed by Al Qaeda.

 

However, the Kingdom has an agenda which is often at odds with US policy and their intelligence services are a key element in pursuing this agenda.

 

We discuss the principal Saudi Arabian intelligence services (Mabahith, Mukhabarat), military, and SNSC operating against the US. 

 

The course provides an overview of periods in Saudi history which have impacted how the security services are used; the services’ organization and leadership; and case studies illustrating the services’ efforts to advance the Kingdom’s agenda.

 

The second part of the course provides an introduction to Iraq’s intelligence service, IIS [Mukhabarat], also known as the Department of General Intelligence or the General Directorate of Intelligence (Al-Mukhabarat Al-A'ma), and the Saudi Arabian Intelligence services with an external function (Mabahith, GIP, Military and NSC). 

 

We will discuss the history of Iraq in the Twentieth Century as it relates to the evolution of its intelligence services; the historic ties to Nazi Germany; and Saddam Hussein's rise to power. 

 

We examine the Iraqi Intelligence Service's operations and cooperation with foreign intelligence services and Middle East terror organizations prior to the 2003 launch of Operation Iraqi Freedom. 

 

The key role the counterintelligence service played in the rise to power of Saddam Hussein as well as the function of Iraq’s Mukhabarat in maintaining iron-fisted domestic control of a police state will be examined.

 

The broad range of relationships between Saddam’s Mukhabarat and a spectrum of international intelligence services (especially the USSR/Russia’s) will be explored, both for the transfer of ideology, tactics, and methods from which Iraq benefited, as well as to appreciate the magnitude of decades of deadly coordination among them.

 

The integral role of Iraq’s Mukhabarat in developing, concealing, and transferring Saddam’s Weapons of Mass Destruction out of Iraq will be discussed. The course highlights the rash of recent indictments against US persons who were operating covertly in America on behalf of Saddam's Iraq. 

 

The course will address the specific charges against these individuals with an eye towards how this reflected on the nature of the regime along with how it portends future intelligence activities.

 

An understanding of the power and scope of activity of the Iraq services will provide insight into some of Iraq’s current-day problems.