Counterintelligence Training

Building on the foundation forged in our 501 Course, this course primarily focuses on counterintelligence events that changed history and the value and need to conduct offensive double-agent operations.

There is a deliberate effort to facilitate the course participants’ ability to understand and overcome institutional cultural opposition to double agentry.

The students participate in a day-long case study of the Oleg Penkovsky CIA/MI6 operation. They are exposed to two conflicting analyses of Penkovsky’s bona fides in consecutive nightly readings and the impact such assessments can have on national policy.

This culminates in a detailed case study in which the students draw conclusions on the validity of the intelligence produced by this operation.

Students study two successful double agent operations, and draw conclusions concerning the value of each to the USIC.

The course includes a detailed examination of the methods used by foreign intelligence/security and counterintelligence services to assess and conduct recruitment operations against US government personnel assigned overseas.

A day-long lecture illustrates the complex inter-connectivity and analyzes a series of events including espionage cases, penetrations of intelligence services and the conduct of offensive double agentry.