Intelligence Speakers Bureau: Connie Allen

Connie Huff Allen

Retired Senior US Army Counterintelligence Special Agent

Former Senior Instructor, US Army Advanced Counterintelligence Training Center

Former Senior Counterespionage Investigator in a Desert Shield/Desert Storm Espionage Case

1992 Department of Defense "Investigator of the Year"
Vice President for Training & Education; Professor, Centre for Counterintelligence and Security Studies

Connie Allen has had a distinguished career in the United States Army with accelerated promotions through proven expertise as a Senior Instructor and Counterintelligence Special Agent. Her excellent teaching skills have motivated a generation of US Army Foreign Counterintelligence investigators and operators, and this continues with those she teaches at CI Centre courses.

Allen served as a Senior Instructor at the US Army Advanced Counterintelligence Training Center for US Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM) and Department of Defense military and civilian special agents. In this capacity, she has taught interviewing and interrogation, the conduct of counterespionage investigations, surveillance, tradecraft and offensive espionage operations.

Allen was recognized throughout the strategic counterintelligence community as one of the Army's premiere espionage investigators. In this capacity, she planned, conducted and supervised sensitive and complex counterespionage investigations. Allen was a Senior Counterintelligence Investigator in one of the US Army-Europe's highest priority espionage investigations which became the Army's most successful Desert Shield/Storm espionage neutralization. This stopped the hemorrhage of defense information to two Arab intelligence services, forestalling terrorist activity, and resulted in a 34 year sentence for a convicted solider. She also executed many other high priority counterespionage investigations in USAEUR.

Allen wrote the definitive "how to" guide for the DoD Foreign Counterintelligence community on sting operations. She also authored the USAEUR Counterespionage Standard Operating Procedures for counterespionage investigators in the Army-Europe Theater, as well as various other counterespionage publications. In 1992, Allen was named as the Department of Defense "Investigator of the Year."

Allen is a graduate of the University of Maryland, and she earned a Master of Education from Boston University. She also has attended the FBI National Academy with coursework in Criminal Justice Education. Allen has received numerous awards for leadership, technical expertise and initiative in training, investigations, interviewing and interrogations, including two Legion of Merit Awards. She is a member of the American Society for Training and Development.

Travels from Washington, DC area

Uses multimedia PowerPoint presentations

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Vulnerabilities of Foreign Travel

Elicitation Techniques That Can Be Used Against You

Understanding the Recruitment Process

Victims in the Shadows: The Unseen Consequences of Espionage

Deception Operations During the Vietnam War

Clyde Conrad Case: The Army’s Ames

SIGINT Spies

A Spy in Desert Storm: The Albert Sombolay Case

Operation SOLO: A Counterintelligence Success Story

Operation ROMEO: Love Can Be Blind