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Interview of 24 April 2026 of Lorraine Cosgrove, former CIA, on her book, Still Living It Up!: Housemothers, Spies, and Soulmates. Lorraine's life at the Agency as one of the earliest women employees from the time she arrived there and her many outside - and inside - adventures throughout her life. Available on the the AFIO Now Videos and Podcasts page.
CIA Operations Officer and AFIO Member Charles Jones reviews Tradecraft Tactics and Dirty Tricks: Russian Intelligence and Putin’s Secret War, available on the WIN Short Form Book Reviews page.
The open-source intelligence (OSINT) discipline celebrates 85 years this month. In February 1941 the Foreign Broadcast Monitoring Service (FBMS) was formally established by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The OSINT discipline expanded beyond FBMS' broadcast intercepts to include print media exploitation when the Interdepartmental Committee for the Acquisition of Foreign Publications (IDC) of the Library of Congress was established in December 1941.
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11:30 AM
Colorado Springs, CO
Colonel Magnan enlisted in the Air Force in 1983 as a Russian Cryptologic Linguist and served seven years reaching the rank of Staff Sergeant and was deployed and provided various levels of support throughout his career to Operations Deny Flight, Deliberate Force, Provide Promise, Allied Force, Southern Watch, Desert Strike, Noble Eagle, Enduring Freedom, Iraqi Freedom, and New Dawn.
5:00 PM
Village Pub (Horizon)
10900 S Eastern Ave., Henderson, NV
This is the chapter's first meeting in the Henderson area. Please join us and bring a friend or colleague who has an affiliation with the IC, military, or law enforcement. The program will include dinner ($20 per person), a short business meeting, and featured speaker James Gosler, Former Director, CIA’s Clandestine Information Technology Office. His topic is “Cyber Threats and Mitigation.”
Please RSVP by June 5, 2026.
12:00 PM
Boy Scouts of America Headquarters
1900 The Alameda, Suite 100 | San Jose, CA 95126
Topic: HEXAGON: Spies in the Sky: Reconnaissance Technology During the Cold War
Doors open at 11:30 am. Boxed lunches are available. Please RSVP no later than June 13, 2026. No late registrations or walk-ins will be accepted.
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