Counterintelligence Training

This groundbreaking course chronologically examines significant cases of Russian intelligence officers who spied for the United States and American intelligence officers who spied for Russia since 1950 and how their cases affected one another.

This unprecedented course “connects the dots” of the past 50 years of counterintelligence:

• The recruitment of agents

• Officers who volunteered to spy

• The sophisticated use of ‘operational games’ or deception operations to protect spies

  • Including an in-depth look at the Soviet/Russian deceptions to protect their prize spies Rick Ames and Bob Hanssen)

• The arrest and sometimes execution of these spies.

Both sides fought hard and had an equal share of successes and failures.

For the first time, you will be able to see a chronological birds-eye view of the espionage battles, what went right, what went wrong and why identifying what went wrong is far more complicated than most realize.

NOTE: This is an intensive, advanced course and it is recommended that students have some familiarity with the important espionage cases of these two countries over the past 50 years.