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The CI Centre consists of retired and former intelligence officers from the FBI, CIA, Department of State, Department of Justice, Department of Defense, US Army, US Navy, Canadian RCMP and Russian KGB as well as intelligence historians.

They are counterintelligence, intelligence, counterterrorism and security experts who have years of experience and study in these disciplines.

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David Major

President and Founder

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Retired Senior FBI Supervisory Special Agent. First Director of Counterintelligence, Intelligence and Security Programs at the National Security Council at the White House. Retired after 24 years with the FBI in the discipline of counterintelligence and counterterrorism. For over 38 years, Major has been a student, practitioner and lecturer on CI and CT. More

Connie Huff Allen

Vice President for Training and Education

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Senior Instructor and Counterintelligence Special Agent in the US Army. Retired with 25 years in the US Army. Allen has been a CI Centre Professor for nine years. More

Eric Major

President and CEO of K2M, a Virginia-based, multi-million dollar Medtechnology Company he co-founded which develops and commercializes next-generation technologies designed to help treat spinal deformities. He previously was the President and CEO of American OsteoMedix, another company he co-founded. Major is a regular guest lecturer to Business programs at Columbia, James Madison University and Penn State University on the topic of entrepreneurship and strategic business development.

E. Alan Platt

Served 25 years with the CIA as an operations officer, chief of station and senior CIA executive. He was the Deputy Chief of the CIA's Counterintelligence Center during the investigation and arrest of the spy Jim Nicholson, and he oversaw the enhancement of the counterintelligence program at the CIA. Platt is currently with SCITOR Corporation.

John L. Martin, Esq.

Chief of Internal Security for the US Justice Department. Supervised the successful prosecutions of 76 accused spies. The spy cases included the indictments of the first CIA officer and the first FBI agent for spying on behalf of Russia and the first cases ever brought against US citizens for spying on behalf of China and Israel. In 1985/86, he obtained the release of 30 political prisoners and their families from the Soviet Union and Eastern bloc countries, including Russian dissident Anatoli Shcharansky. Retired with 26 years with the Justice Department. More

Jack C. Platt

Served 25 years in the CIA as an operations officer with extensive information collection and counterintelligence background in a variety of assignments overseas and was awarded the CIA's Career Intelligence Medal. He directed a CIA training program which prepared Agency officers  and their families to live and work productively in hostile countries. Platt is the Vice President of Hamilton Trading Group which provides instruction on surveillance, surveillance detection, and counterterrorism measures to the government and private sector.

Raymond A. Mislock

Served as a senior counterintelligence executive in the FBI, including Director of Counterintelligence, Intelligence and Security Programs at the National Security Council at the White House. Following a 25 year Bureau career, he served as the Director of CIA Security and Special Assistant to the DCI for Security Policy. He is currently Chief Security Officer for the DuPont Company and a Board Member and current President of the International Security Management Association.

Michael J. Waguespack

Served as a senior counterintelligence executive in the FBI, including Director of Counterintelligence, Intelligence and Security Programs at the National Security Council at the White House, the first Director of the National Counterintelligence Center, and the Director of Counterintelligence at the Department of Energy.

CI Centre Core Professors: (in Alphabetical Order)

Robert Booth

30-year career as a professional security and counterintelligence officer at the US Department of State. Served as Deputy Director of Counterintelligence. More

John L. Martin, Esq.

Chief of Internal Security for the US Justice Department. Supervised the prosecutions of 76 accused spies. Retired with 26 years with the Justice Department. Served as a Special Agent of the FBI earlier in his career. More

Tony Jordan

Retired Senior Intelligence Service officer in the CIA who served 26 years in a variety of operations, operations management and senior management assignments in the Directorates of Operations and Science and Technology. Served in multiple senior leadership positions in the CIA's Counterintelligence Center.  More

Daniel Mulvenna

International security and risk management expert. Top trainer in counterterrorism/ personal protection and personal security. Served 21 years in Canadian RCMP, 19 years as director of security in two global organizations. More

Major General Oleg Kalugin, ret.

Major General in KGB, served in New York City and Washington, DC for a combined period of 11 years. Chief of KGB Foreign Counterintelligence for ten years. Retired with 32 years in the KGB. More

Ken Schiffer

Retired FBI Supervisory Special Agent and People's Republic of China expert. Served in the Bureau for 29 years. Director of Internal Security at Los Alamos National Laboratory from 1998-2004.

Clare Lopez

Retired senior CIA Operations Officer. Served in the Agency for 20 years. Expert on Russian, Iran and the Middle East. More

Ray Semko, The "D*I*C*E MAN"

Creator of the Defensive Information to Counter Espionage briefings in 1988 for the Defense Intelligence Agency. Semko had been a counterintelligence agent for the US Army from which he retired. Served in DOE, NSA and DSS until his joining the CI Centre in 2006. He spent over 30 years in the government. More about D*I*C*E 

CI Centre Guest Speakers: (in Alphabetical Order)

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Dr. Susan Adams

Retired FBI Supervisory Special Agent and counterintelligence training expert. Served 21 years with the Bureau. More

H. Keith Melton

Intelligence historian and author. Wrote Ultimate Spy and many other books. More

Bart Bechtel

Retired CIA officer having had an extensive career as CIA operations and counterintelligence officer. Currently an expert on the War on Terrorism. More

Jonna Mendez

CIA officer in the Office of Technical Services/DS&T, served as CIA Chief of Disguise. Retired after 25 years in the CIA. More

Dr. David Charney

Psychiatrist who has worked with convicted spies Brian Regan, Earl Pitts and Robert Hanssen when they were in prison. More

Tony Mendez

Senior CIA officer. Served as Chief of Disguise in the Office of Technical Services/DS&T. Retired after 25 years in the CIA. More

Stephen Coughlin

Attorney, military intelligence officer, specialist on Islamic doctrines, Sharia law and its implications for the West. More

Vladimir Nacev, Ph.D., ABPP

Dr. Nacev is a Psychologist with 30 years of clinical experience and 26 years as a university professor.  He is also a retired Navy Commander and is currently working as an intelligence officer in the intelligence community. More

Nonie Darwish

Author and speaker on the Jihadist threat. Wrote Now They Call Me Infidel: Why I Renounced Jihad for America, Israel, and the War on Terror. Father was an Egyptian intelligence officer who created the Fedayeen and became a shahid. More

Dr. Walid Phares

Author of Future Jihad, The War of Ideas and The Confrontation. Senior Fellow and the director for Future Terrorism Project at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies in Washington. Also teaches at the National Defense University. More

Peter Earnest

Senior CIA officer. Retired after a 35 year career in operations and senior CIA management. Executive Director of the International Spy Museum. More

Brian Weidner

Recently retired FBI Supervisory Special Agent having 22 years of field experience conducting and supervising Counterterrorism and Counterintelligence Investigations targeting Middle Eastern State Sponsors of Terrorism, Islamic Inspired Middle Eastern Terrorist Groups and Non-Traditional Terrorist and Intelligence targets. Trained and has served as a bomb technician and hostage negotiator. More

Dr. Tawfik Hamid

Former member of the extremist Islamic group Jamma’a Islameia, current Islamic thinker and reformer. Author of "The Roots of Jihad" and "Inside Jihad". More

Nigel West

Author of numerous books and Intelligence Historian. More

Noel Jones

Retired US Army military intelligence officer who specialized in strategic offensive counterintelligence operations. More 

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Cynthia Kwitchoff

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Manager of CIA's counterintelligence awareness program. Served in the Agency for ten years. More

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Ruth Thomas

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Retired senior US Army Intelligence Collection Officer More

Professors Emeritus:

John Gaskill

FBI Supervisor Special Agent specializing in counterintelligence and surveillance. Retired with 26 years in the Bureau. More

Ray Wannall

Assistant Director in Charge of the Intelligence Division of the FBI. Retired with 33 years in the FBI. More

Dr. Stanley Bedlington

Former Assistant National Intelligence Officer for East Asia/Pacific issues as well as a senior analyst in the CIA Counterterrorism Center.

In Memoriam:

Ken Crosby

FBI Special Agent in Special Intelligence Service during World War II. Retired with 40+ years with Merrill Lynch. More

Dr. Cleveland Cram

Retired senior CIA operations and counterintelligence officer. Wrote the internal CIA study about the CI Staff under Angleton.

Cecil Phillips

Retired NSA cryptanalyst. Discovered major breakthrough that led to decrypting of the VENONA cables.

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