Intelligence Speakers Bureau
Looking for an intriguing speaker for your next event whose unique life experiences in the espionage and terrorism world will inform, inspire and motivate your audience? CI Centre’s instructors are available as speakers and consultants as part of our Intelligence Speakers Bureau. Contact Us for more information or call 1-800-779-4007 or 703-642-7450.
David G. Major
- Founder and President, CI Centre
- A leading authority, expert and teacher on counterintelligence and counterterrorism
- Senior FBI Executive
- FBI career focused on counterintelligence, counterterrorism
- Counterintelligence Advisor to President Reagan, National Security Council
- Board Member: Association For Intelligence Officers (AFIO) and International Spy Museum
- US Army veteran
- Total Years of Experience for you to benefit and learn from: 43
Connie Huff Allen
- Vice President for Training & Education, CI Centre
- Senior US Army Counterintelligence Special Agent
- Masters of Education degree, Boston University
- Senior Instructor, US Army Advanced Counterintelligence Training Center
- Senior Counterespionage Investigator in a Desert Shield/Desert Storm Espionage Case
- 1992 Department of Defense “Investigator of the Year”
- US Army veteran
- Total Years of Experience for you to benefit and learn from: 34
Susan H. Adams, PhD
- FBI Supervisory Special Agent
- Senior Training Agent in the FBI’s Counterintelligence Training Unit
- Expert in counterintelligence, interviewing and interrogation, detection of deception, interpersonal communication and linguistic text analysis
- Adjunct instructor, University of Virginia
- Recipient of the University of Virginia Jefferson Award in 2004 for excellence in research; her research examined indicators of the likelihood of veracity and deception in criminal statements written by suspects and victims
- Total Years of Experience for you to benefit and learn from: 28
Bart Bechtel
- CIA Operations Officer
- Extensive world-wide travel throughout Europe, North America, Asia, South East Asia, China, Russia and the Mediterranean
- Expert in physical surveillance and surveillance detection, threat recognition and observation skills
- Background in domestic and international terrorism matters, crisis management, and issues related to WMD proliferation
- Assistant Chief Academic Officer, Henley-Putnam University
- ‘SpySkipper’ of SpyCruise®
- US Navy veteran
- Total Years of Experience for you to benefit and learn from: 31
Robert Booth
- Senior US State Department official
- Deputy Director, State Department’s Office of Counterintelligence
- Regional State Department Security Officer posted at US Embassies in Paris, France; Port-au-Prince, Haiti; Tokyo, Japan; Geneva, Switzerland; and Beijing, China
- Expert in domestic and foreign environments with special expertise in areas of personnel safety, building security and criminal investigations
- Total Years of Experience for you to benefit and learn from: 35
David Charney, MD
- Founder and Medical Director of Roundhouse Square Psychiatric Center, in Alexandria, VA
- Expert on the Psychology of the Spy
- Psychiatric consultant to three spies after they were arrested: Earl Pitts, Robert Hanssen, Brian Regan
- Developer of the Concept: Life Stages of the Spy
- Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, George Washington University Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
- Total Years of Experience for you to benefit and learn from: 30
Stephen Coughlin, Esq
- Attorney; Major in the US Army Reserves, military intelligence
- Specialist on Islamic Sharia Law, Islamic doctrine and ideology, and strategic information/War of Ideas
- Experience in international law, intelligence, strategic communications and project management to develop unique perspectives, assessments and training relating to the intersection of national security and law
- Masters degree in Strategic Intelligence, with a focus on global terrorism and Jihadist movements; and, the JD from the William Mitchell School of Law
- US Army veteran
- Total Years of Experience for you to benefit and learn from: 20
Nonie Darwish
- Daughter of a senior Egyptian military intelligence officer who led the Fedayeen against Israel and was later assassinated, becoming a “shahid”
- Writer, public speaker and an interpreter on radical Islam and Sharia Law
- Author of Now They Call Me Infidel: Why I Renounced Jihad for America, Israel and the War on Terror
- Author of Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law
- Total Years of Experience for you to benefit and learn from: 33
Peter Earnest
- CIA clandestine operations officer with tours in Europe, Middle East
- Senior CIA executive, including Director of Public Affairs, Senate Liaison
- Awarded CIA Intelligence Medal for Merit
- Executive Director, International Spy Museum in Washington, DC
- Chairman, Association for Intelligence Officers (AFIO)
- Accomplished speaker, expert in media relations, crisis management
- US Marine Corps veteran
- Total Years of Experience for you to benefit and learn from: 54
Tawfik Hamid, MD
- Former member of the extremist Islamic group Jamaa Islamia (Islamic Group) in Egypt
- Knew Dr. Ayman Al-Zawahiri, bin Laden’s second in command
- Expert on the radicalization process of Jihadists, jihadi mindset
- Islamic thinker and reformer; writer and lecturer on radical Islam
- Author of The Roots of Jihad and Inside Jihad
- Holds a degrees in Internal Medicine, and Education
- Total Years of Experience for you to benefit and learn from: 43
Tony Jordan
- Senior CIA executive in the Senior Intelligence Service
- Operations officer and expert recruiter who served in seven field tours
- Held several senior management positions in the CIA’s Counterintelligence Center, Director of Operations
- Deputy Director of DS&T/Office of Technical Services (OTS) in the CIA
- Awarded CIA Distinguished Intelligence Medal, DCI Intelligence Collector of the Year, DIA’s Director Award, National Clandestine Service Donovan Award
- US Air Force veteran, pilot
- Total Years of Experience for you to benefit and learn from: 40
“K”
- Middle Eastern counterterrorism operative
- Real-life expertise about a number of terrorist organizations and method of operations
Oleg Kalugin, Major General, ret
- KGB Major General
- Former Chief, KGB Foreign Counterintelligence (Directorate KR)
- Former Deputy Chief and Acting Chief, KGB Rezidency at Soviet Embassy
- Youngest General in KGB History
- Pro-Democracy activitst; elected to the Soviet Parliament
- Author, The First Chief Directorate: My 32 Years in Intelligence and Espionage Against the West
- Board Member: International Spy Museum
- Total Years of Experience for you to benefit and learn from: 44
Clare Lopez
- Senior CIA Clandestine Operations Officer with tours in Africa, Central/South America and the Balkans, with a focus on the USSR/Russia
- Senior level intelligence consultant and strategic policy analyst
- Strong expertise in HUMINT project management including counterintelligence, counternarcotics, counterproliferation, WMD, and Advanced Conventional Weapons threat arenas
- University lecturer, public events speaker, and published author on Middle East, Iran, Arab and Islamic culture, WMD, and transnational terrorism issues
- Vice President of The Intelligence Summit, a non-profit educational forum
- Member of the Board of Directors, Institute of World Affairs
- Total Years of Experience for you to benefit and learn from: 29
H. Keith Melton
- Renowned intelligence and military historian and author
- Leading expert and authority on clandestine devices and equipment, spy technology
- Has world’s largest collection of spy devices, books, uniforms, papers and equipment from US, Russian, East Germany and others
- Author of several books on espionage, including the well-known and regarded Ultimate Spy
- Co-author with CIA officer Robert Wallace of Spycraft: The Secret History of the CIA’s Spytechs, from Communism to al-Qaeda, and The Official CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception
- Advisor to US Intelligence Community
- Board Member: International Spy Museum
- US Naval Academy graduate
- Total Years of Experience for you to benefit and learn from: 43
Jonna Mendez
- CIA technical operations officer with tours in Europe, Far East and the Sub-continent
- Chief of Disguise, CIA, Office of Technical Services (OTS)
- Awarded CIA’s Intelligence Commendation Medal
- Co-author of Spy Dust: Two Masters of Disguise Reveal the Tools and Operations That Helped Win the Cold War with husband Tony Mendez
- Board Member: International Spy Museum
- Accomplished photographer
- Advisor, consultant to various organizations and media documentaries
- Total Years of Experience for you to benefit and learn from: 43
Tony Mendez
- Senior CIA executive in the Directorate of Science & Technology
- Chief of Disguise and Chief of the Graphics and Authentication Division, CIA, Office of Technical Services (OTS)
- Awarded Intelligence Star for Valor for engineering and conducting the rescue of six U.S. diplomats from Iran during the hostage crisis
- Named one of 50 “CIA Trailblazers” during 50th Anniversary of CIA
- Author of Master of Disguise: My Secret Life in the CIA
- Board Member: International Spy Museum
- Advisor, consultant to various organizations and media documentaries
- Total Years of Experience for you to benefit and learn from: 44
Walid Phares, PhD
- Author, analyst and speaker on terrorism, Jihadist movements and strategies worldwide, the War of Ideas, Arab-Israeli Conflict, Human Rights under Islamist regimes, ethnic minorities, women, and democratic processes within the Greater Middle East and the Muslim world, and international relations of civilizations
- Author of:
- Senior Fellow and the director for Future Terrorism Project at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies in Washington
- Professor, National Defense University
- Masters in International Law from the Universite de Lyons in France; PhD in International Relations and Strategic Studies from the University of Miami
- Total Years of Experience for you to benefit and learn from: 30
John R. “Jack” Schafer, PhD
- FBI Special Agent assigned to FBI’s National Security Behavioral Analysis Program
- Author of Psychological Narrative Analysis: A Professional Method to Detect Deception in Written and Oral Communications
- Co-author of Advanced Interviewing Techniques: Proven Strategies for Law Enforcement, Military, and Security Personnel
- Total Years of Experience for you to benefit and learn from: 25
Brian Weidner
- Senior FBI Supervisory Special Agent
- Specialized in field operations against terrorist and intelligence threats presented by Middle Eastern Countries Designated as State Sponsors of Terrorism (Iran, Syria, Iraq, Libya)
- Worked on the investigations of the Pan Am Flight 103 case, 1998 US Embassy bombings, and the 9/11 Attacks
- Supervised new squad investigation counterterrorism, counterintelligence, and related criminal matters relating to countries on the Arabian Peninsula.
- Expert in Middle-Eastern organizations designated as terrorist groups (to include PFLP, PFLP-GC, Hezbollah, HAMAS), the recruitment and handling of informants and sources, WMD
- Graduate of Hazardous Devise School, (Bomb Technician) and FBI Crisis negotiation School
- US Army veteran
- Total Years of Experience for you to benefit and learn from: 25
Nigel West
- Renowned British intelligence and military historian and author
- Author of over 35 books on security, intelligence, secret service and espionage issues
- Books include:
- TRIPLEX: Secrets from the Cambridge Spies
- Venona: The Greatest Secret of the Cold War
- Mortal Crimes: The Greatest Theft in History: The Soviet Penetration of the Manhattan Project
- The Crown Jewels: The British Secrets at the Heart of the KGB Archives
- Historical Dictionary of Sexspionage (Historical Dictionaries of Intelligence and Counterintelligence)
- At Her Majesty’s Service: The Chiefs of Britain’s Intelligence Agency, M16
- Historical Dictionary of Ian Fleming’s World of Intelligence: Fact and Fiction (Historical Dictionaries of Intelligence and Counterintelligence)
- Counterfeit Spies: Genuine or Bogus? An Astonishing Investigation into Secret Agents of the Second World War (Nigel West Intelligence Library)
- The Guy Liddell Diaries, Volume I: 1939-1942: MI5′s Director of Counter-Espionage in World War II
- Historical Dictionary of Cold War Counterintelligence (Historical Dictionaries of Intelligence and Counterintelligence)
- The Third Secret: The CIA, Solidarity and the KGB’s Plot to Kill the Pope
- The Secret War for the Falklands: The SAS, Mi6, and the War Whitehall Nearly Lost
- Historical Dictionary of International Intelligence (Historical Dictionaries of Intelligence and Counterintelligence)
- and many more
- TRIPLEX: Secrets from the Cambridge Spies
- Former Conservative Member of the British Parliament for 10 years
- Editor of The Guy Liddell Diaries, a daily journal of the wartime work of MI5′s Director of Counter-Espionage
- Recipient of the Association for Intelligence Officers (AFIO)’s Lifetime Literature Achievement Award
- Total Years of Experience for you to benefit and learn from: 34
