CI Centre Course Instructors

David Major

President

David G. Major Associates, Inc./

The Centre for Counterintelligence and Security Studies

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

David G. Major Associates, Inc./

The Centre for Counterintelligence and Security Studies

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

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

Stephen Coughlin

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

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

Clare Lopez

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

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

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.

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 

Dr. Susan Adams

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

Bart Bechtel

Extensive career as CIA operations and counterintelligence officer. More

Retired CIA information security officer. Computer Security expert. Vice President of Corporate Security for In-Q-Tel.

Dr. David Charney

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

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

Dr. Tawfik Hamid

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

Noel Jones

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

KGB Intelligence Officer (former)

An expert in intelligence tradecraft. More

Legal Expert

Very knowledgeable about Islamic doctrines, sharia law and its implications for the West.

"M"

FBI operational support asset who worked against a variety of foreign intelligence officer in the United States.

H. Keith Melton

Renowned military historian, author and expert on clandestine devices and equipment. 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

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

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

Dr. Walid Phares

Author of Future Jihad and The War of Ideas. 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

"R"

Retired intelligence officer in the Cuban Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Interior.

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

Nigel West

Author of numerous books and Intelligence Historian. More