CI-TV

 

CI Centre President David Major is the host and researcher of 150+ episodes of CI-TV. This is a product we developed in concert with the government for counterintelligence awareness and education purposes. The half-hour video episodes are aired on a daily basis on their internal television grid. Each episode is introduced at a site in the Washington, DC area that is related to the content of the half-hour video. At the end of each episode, the host recommends books to learn more about the topic.

 

If you are a US government employee and are interested in viewing some of the CI-TV episodes shown below, contact us, and we can put you in touch with the appropriate people who can lend out copies.

 

The videos are all at the unclassified level, but because of the nature of the product, they are for internal government educational use only. They are not available to anyone outside the government.

CI-TV host David Major introduces an episode on Russian Illegals in front of the Arlington House apartments in Rosslyn, VA where the Peter Herrmann, the son of Russian Illegal Rudi Hermann, lived. Peter was being groomed to continue his father's work lived. Peter grew up, though, thinking his parents were far right-leaning Germans who had immigrated to the US. Before he went to college, his father sat him down and told him that they were in fact Czechs and that Rudi was actually a Soviet intelligence office--a KGB Lt. Colonel--and his mother also worked for the KGB.

 

The KGB gave Peter his codename, INHERITOR, and provided training for him. He was accepted into Georgetown University and was told to befriend students with fathers in government, those with personal problems who could be approached, "progressives" among students and professors, Chinese students, and look for part-time employment with the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

 

The FBI was on to the Soviet Illegal family and turned them in 1977.

 

For more information on this story, read chapters 7 and 8 of John Barron's book, "KGB: The Hidden Hand."

 CI-TV Episodes

  • John Walker Espionage Case

  • CIA's and FBI's Reluctant Spy: Arkady Shevchenko

  • Donovan's Spies: The Story of the OSS

  • Shaking the Foundation: the Trusted Elite of England

  • Oleg Penkovsky: The Spy Who Saved the World

  • U-2 and its Place in History/CIA U-2 Pilot Gary Powers

  • Cuban Missile Crisis, Part I

  • Cuban Missile Crisis: Intelligence and Decision, Part II

  • Cuban Missile Crisis: How Close We Came to War, Part III

  • Escape from Freedom: The Angry Defector Edward Lee Howard

  • Richard Sorge and the Red Orchestra

  • Nazi Spies in America

  • The ULTRA Secret: Power of SIGINT

  • Prelude to Pearl Harbor: Japanese Spies Against America

  • How the Russians Stole the Bomb

  • Uncovering Atomic Bomb Espionage

  • Exploiting Stolen US Secrets: Espionage Builds the Bomb, Part I

  • Exploiting Stolen US Secrets: Espionage Builds the Bomb, Part II

  • The Rosenberg's Case Officer Speaks: The Final Word, Part I

  • The Rosenberg's Case Officer Speaks: The Final Word, Part II

  • Stalin's Secret War: Korea, Part I

  • Stalin's Secret War: Korea, Part II

  • Rudolph Abel: The Classic Illegal

  • The Canadian Businessman: Espionage and the Illegal

  • Tuomi and Herrmann Illegals: Two CI Success Stories

  • Mata Hari: Seduction and Espionage--Beyond the Myth

  • Pitfalls of Mixing Espionage and Blackmail

  • ROMEO Operation: The Plot, Part I

  • ROMEO Operation: The Human Consequences, Part II

  • M Butterfly

  • Clayton Lonetree Espionage Case

  • Arnold Bracy: Spy or Victim?

  • Richard Miller Case

  • Relationships, FSN's and Espionage, Part I

  • Relationships, FSN's and Espionage, Part II

  • Six Forgotten Spies

  • A Classic Recruitment Operation: William Bell

  • Imagery and Espionage: William Kampiles

  • Clyde Lee Conrad: The Army's Ames

  • The Falcon and the Snowman: Joining the Intelligence Community, Part I

  • The Falcon and the Snowman: Espionage Begins--The Walk-in, Part II

  • The Falcon and the Snowman: Espionage Succeeds with Tradecraft, Part III

  • The Falcon and the Snowman: Espionage, Conflict and Mistrust, Part IV

  • The Falcon and the Snowman: Espionage and Panic, Part V

  • The Falcon and the Snowman: Arrested for Espionage, Part VI

  • The Real Christopher Boyce: Conflicted Man

  • Boyce Speaks to Congress: "There Was No Reason to Trust Me," Part I

  • Boyce Speaks to Congress: "Espionage--Solution to Nothing," Part II

  • Boyce Speaks to Congress: "No Glamour, No Escape, Only Regrets," Part III

  • The Ames Case, Part I

  • The Ames Case, Part II

  • An Interview with Rick Ames, Part I

  • An Interview with Rick Ames, Part II

  • Ames and His Living Russian Victims

  • The Identification of Ames: The CIA Team Speaks

  • Rosario Ames: Her Plea for Understanding

  • Jim Nicholson Family: "He is Not a Traitor"

  • Jim Nicholson: "But Russia is Our Ally"

  • Nicholson's Children: The Human Consequences

  • A Russian Spy in the FBI: The Earl Pitts Story

  • Two Spies in the SIGINT Community: Helmich and Prime

  • Traitor King, Part I

  • Traitor King, Part II

  • George Blake: The Confession, Part I--"My Life and Motivation"

  • George Blake: The Confession Part II--"My Espionage Career"

  • George Blake: The Confession, Part II--"My Arrest and Escape"

  • The Blake Escape: How to Justify Aiding a Traitor, Part I

  • The Blake Escape: Could It Only Happen in Britain?, Part II

  • A KGB American Hero Destroyed by Ames

 

 

  • The Defectors: Peter Deriabin

  • The Defectors: Alexandra Costa

  • The Defectors: Viktor Belenko

  • The Defectors: Stanislave Levchenko

  • The Defectors: Arkady Shevchenko

  • The Pollards: Victims or Venal Spies?

  • The Pollards: Friendly Spies?

  • Anne Polard: The Witting Wife

  • Vanunu: The Long Arm of the Mossad

  • Iraq and the PRC: Atomic Bomb Espionage

  • The Mossad: No Place to Hide

  • The Mossad: To Bring Justice

  • The Mossad: The Sacred Mission

  • Shin Bet: The Threat of the Martyr

  • Shin Bet: Responding to the Threat

  • Israel Spy in Damascus

  • US Counterintelligence: Past, Present and Future

  • Supersonic Spies, Part I

  • Supersonic Spies, Part II

  • Espionage Alert

  • Espionage 2000

  • French Espionage

  • Japanese Espionage

  • Friend or Foe: New Espionage Challenge

  • Piracy in the 20th Century

  • Taking Responsibility

  • New Spies

  • Economic Espionage Threat

  • Preventing Espionage

  • Are You Being Watched? Part I

  • Are You Being Watched? Part II

  • Criminals in Cyberspace, Part I

  • Criminals in Cyberspace, Part II

  • Spy Machines Part I: To Keep Peace

  • Spy Machines Part II: In the Public Domain

  • Venona Spies, Part I

  • Venona Spies, Part II

  • Who is Ted Hall? Part I

  • Who is Ted Hall? Part II

  • Nazi Bomb Part I: Will They Build It?

  • Nazi Bomb Part II: The Truth Emerges

  • Women Spies in Wartime

  • Building With Ears

  • Gusev: SVR--The Aggressive Bold New KGB

  • Espionage Tradecraft: Technology of the Human Spy

  • The Spying Game: Sonya/Tina and Assassinations

  • The Mitrokhin Files; The Secret is Revealed

  • What the KGB Archives Revealed

  • KGB: An Intelligence Service With No Limits

  • Love Marriage/Spy Marriage: Red Files, Part I

  • Love Marriage/Spy Marriage: Red Files, Part II

  • Barbara Walker: The Great Enabler

  • Frau K.: CIA Counterintelligence and Domestic Help

  • Two Defectors: Howard and Bokhan--One From Freedom and One to Freedom

  • Two Defections: Hamza and Gordievsky--Leave Now or Die

  • Nicholas Daniloff: US Journalist Jailed in Moscow

  • FBI Counterintelligence and Counterterrorism in Action in the USA

  • Birth of the CIA/CTC: You Can Run But You Cannot Hide

  • The Bill Buckley Story: A Great American Hero

  • NSA Today Part I: Exploiting Secrets/Impacting Events

  • NSA Today Part II: Exploiting Secrets/Impacting Events

  • Future Threats: Cyber Warfare and/or Biological Warfare

  • Spy Countdown 10-6:  Penetrations of Intelligence Services

  • Spy Countdown 5-1:  Nuclear Warfare Spies

  • The Berlin Tunnel

  • KGB Defector Oleg Gordievsky: Operation Ryan

  • The Debriefing of Col. Oleg Gordievsky: Recruitment & Motivation

  • The Debriefing of Col. Oleg Gordievsky: Suspicion and Escape

  • Pyotr Popov: The GRU Volunteer

  • TRIGON

  • Secrets for Sale

  • The Daniel King Case: “Bennettized or Spy”

  • Squillacote, Sand, and Clark:  Modern Day Ideology Spies

  • The KGB & the Pope Assassination:  The Letter and the Controversy

  • The Plot to Assassinate America

  • The Robert Hanssen Case

  • The Mendezes:  Masters of Disguise

  • French Intelligence:  17th Century to WWII

  • French Intelligence: 1945 to Present

  • Dictator’s Daughter: The Defection of Svetlana Stalin

  • The Dark Invader: Target America-Sabotage, Aug. 1914 to May 1915

  • The Dark Invader: The Bombing of Black Tom Island

 

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