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This is a listing of PRIOR EVENTS FROM THE WEEKLY INTELLIGENCE NOTES - Use month index in right column to jump to current month:
THIS IS A LIST OF PRIOR EVENTS in 2025
Upcoming events are HERE
Programs Offered by External Organizations are HERE
 January 2025
Tuesday, 14 January 2025, 9:00am - In-Person, Moffett Field, CA - AFIO San Francisco Chapter Presentation by General Jim Mattis, USMC (ret.) & 26th Secretary of Defense
 Program schedule:
9:00am - 9:45am coffee and networking;
9:45am - 11:30am presentation by Gen. Mattis
Location: Adjacent to Moffett Field. Registrants will receive directions on how to access the building.
Dress Code: Civilian - Business Casual; Military - Work Uniform
This event is open to AFIO SF chapter members in good standing and their guests.
Please note: the event is SOLD OUT.
To go on wait list, contact Mariko Kawaguchi if you have any questions or would like to be put on a very limited wait list. The event is held at a government facility. You must be registered prior to the event and bring a government-issued photo ID. No walk-ins will be allowed.
February 2025
Monday, 3 February 2025, noon - San Antonio, TX - San Antonio AFIO Chapter will feature Dr Lenczowski and James Hughes on "Chinese influence operations directed at the US by Chicom Party agents."
The Communist Chinese Party (CCP) considers the United States to be the most serious adversary to Communists Party goals for world domination.
This 3 February 2025 San Antonio Chapter of AFIO program will be a presentation on Chinese influence operations directed at the United States by the Communist Chinese Party's agents. The CCP have very bold cyber attacks and misinformation programs coupled with an aggressive spying program. The February 3 program will be an interview by Jim Hughes, AFIO President, of John Lenczowski PhD, an expert on China and a former National Security Council advisor on Chinese influence operations.
The presentation starts at noon in the Roadrunner Meeting Room. AFIO Members attending should identify themselves to the gate guard as coming for the intelligence meeting in the Roadrunner Lounge at The Towers. Blue Skies Texas West is located at 5100 John D Ryan Blvd, San Antonio, TX 78245. AFIO members attending should park in front of The Towers. You may come early and have lunch in the dining room adjacent to the Roadrunner Lounge. Please pay for lunch with a credit card.
Questions/Registrations to John Franklin, President, AFIO San Antonio Chapter, at SATXAFIO@gmail.com, or call 210 863-0430.
Saturday, 8 February 2025, 11:30 a.m. - Indialantic, FL - AFIO Florida Satellite Chapter hears David Hunt, former senior CIA Operations Officer on "Intelligence Threats from the French to the Chinese and More"
AFIO Florida Satellite Chapter hears from David Hunt, former senior CIA Operations Officer, on "Intelligence Threats from the French to the Chinese and More." The event commences at 11:30 AM, Saturday, 8 February 2025, at the Doubletree Hotel, Rt A1A, Indialantic, Florida.
Mr. Hunt's presentation follows a sit-down lunch.
The cost is $35.00. Reservations received by February 3 are required.
Questions? Reservations? Contact: Larry Sanford, President AFIO-FSC at afiofloridasatellitechapter@gmail.com
Monday, 10 February 2025, 6:45-8:00pm – Washington, DC – An Evening with H.R. McMaster – Virtual and In-Person International Spy Museum Program
 Join International Spy Museum Executive Director Chris Costa in conversation with Lieutenant General H.R. McMaster (US Army, Ret.), former National Security Advisor. McMaster has recently written At War with Ourselves: My Tour of Duty in the Trump White House. The book is a riveting account of McMaster's 13 months in this position and his own assessment of how he did. Costa, a past special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Counterterrorism on the National Security Council during the Trump administration, and McMaster will discuss the General's tenure as National Security Advisor and the challenges of maintaining focus on the mission despite external and internal pressures. He'll share how he drew on his background to help drive shifts in US foreign policy at a critical point in history. A graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, McMaster served as a US Army officer for 34 years and retired as a lieutenant general in 2018. He remained on active duty while serving as the National Security Advisor. His service and education—he holds a PhD in history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill—have informed his leadership in both the government and the military. Visit www.spymuseum.org.
Thursday, 13 February 2025, 12:00-1:00pm – Washington, DC – Spy Chat with Special Guest Colin Clarke – Virtual International Spy Museum Program
Join us for an online discussion of the latest intelligence, national security, and terrorism issues in the news. Spy Museum Executive Director Chris Costa, a former intelligence officer of 34 years, will be joined by Colin P. Clarke, Senior Research Fellow at The Soufan Center. At The Soufan Group, Clarke's research focuses on domestic and transnational terrorism, international security, and geopolitics. Prior to joining The Soufan Group, Clarke was a professor at Carnegie Mellon University, and a senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation, where he spent a decade researching terrorism, insurgency, and criminal networks. At RAND, Clarke led studies on ISIS financing, the future of terrorism and transnational crime, and lessons learned from all insurgencies since the end of World War II. Clarke is also an Associate Fellow at the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism – The Hague, a non-resident Senior Fellow in the Program on National Security at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, an Associate Fellow at the Global Network on Extremism and Technology, and a member of the "Network of Experts" at the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime. In 2011, he spent several months as an analyst with Combined Joint Interagency Task Force-Shafafiyat at ISAF headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan, working for General H.R. McMaster, the former U.S. National Security Advisor, where he was responsible for analyzing criminal patronage networks in Afghanistan and how these networks fueled the insurgency. He has published several books on terrorism, including his most recent, After the Caliphate: The Islamic State and the Future Terrorist Diaspora. Visit www.spymuseum.org.
Friday, 21 February 2025, 1100 - 1400 - McLean, VA - AFIO National Spring Luncheon -
Registration has closed
FEATURING:
Schedule:
1030 - Check-in for preregistered attendees (no walk-ins)
1100 - Panel on Intelligence History.
Panelists: CIA's Chief Historian David Robarge,
National Cryptologic Museum curator Vincent Houghton, and
OSS scholar and CIA historian Nicholas Reynolds.
12-1300 - Lunch
1300 - Joby Warrick, Author and a National Security Correspondent for The Washington Post, discussing current events in Syria and his 2021 book "Red Line: The Unraveling of Syria and the Race to Destroy the Most Dangerous Arsenal in the World."
1400 - Event ends
Venue: DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel, McLean-Tysons, VA
1960 Chain Bridge Rd, McLean, VA 22102
Registration and Cost:
Registration and credit card payment required before event. Lunch is $60 (members) or $75 (guests, Subscribers).
Registration has closed.
Cancellations: No refund for cancellations after 9 Feb 2025. Payment for reservations canceled 10 to 16 Feb 2025 will be converted to donations to AFIO. Payments for reservations canceled after 16 Feb 2025 are forfeit; the meal will have been guaranteed at the hotel per the contract.
Attendees must be AFIO members or accompanied by a member. For security reasons, no late or last-minute substitutions.
Please direct any questions to events@afio.com
Friday, 21 February 2025 - New York City - Spyher's Charles Lea hosts "The Spies of Wall Street"
Former DIA and CIA Officer Charles Lea hosts "The Spies of Wall Street" through New York City's famed Financial District. He interprets the neighborhood's spy sites, shares stories from his time in the intelligence community, and answers your burning questions. This is your chance to meet a real former CIA officer. This 90-minute walking tour explores the rich spy history of lower Manhattan, where every corner reveals secrets steeped in espionage and intrigue, from the clandestine operations of George Washington's intelligence network during the Revolutionary War to the audacious actions of Soviet sleeper agents, perfectly hidden within New York's glitterati. Dive into an unseen world that has silently shaped our past and continues to influence the present, hidden in the shadows of the city's skyscrapers. Throughout, you'll be captivated by tales of spies, covert operations, and the art of espionage. Prepare to test your own spy craft as you navigate this world of secrets and hidden histories.
Private tours available in English and French upon request. Contact rosanna@spyher.co to schedule. Public tours available for purchase on Eventbrite
Saturday, 22 February 2025 - Washington, DC - Spyher sponsors SpyKids Mission Training (ages 12 and under)
Get ready to become a top-secret spy at SpyKids Mission Training - where you'll learn all the skills needed to complete your mission! SpyKids Mission Training is hosted by a real Intelligence officer who will guide you through the back streets and dark alleys of Georgetown to learn about the many spies who once traded secrets for cash (and still do). Along the way you will learn about how spies secretly communicate, what motivates a spy to spy, and the role bananas had in overthrowing a government. You and your fellow spy kids will also have to read signals, create concealment devices, decode secret messages, and load a dead drop.
Next available dates: Monday, 24 March, and school holidays - think Spring Break!
Book SpyKids Mission Training
Thursday, 27 February 2025, 12:00-1:00pm – Washington, DC – The Heavy Water Sabotage Raid with Mitch Utterback – A Virtual and In-Person International Spy Museum Program
Join us for an intense exploration of Operation Gunnerside on the 82nd anniversary of the mission. One of the Allies' most dramatic sabotage missions of WWII, Gunnerside was a daring plan to derail the Nazis' scheme to build an atomic bomb. A key component of their bomb recipe was heavy water—deuterium oxide. When Germany occupied Norway, the remote Vemork Norsk Hydro plant, which produced heavy water, came under Nazi control. The Allies, desperate to prevent a nuclear-armed Germany, devised the daring Operation Gunnerside to disable the plant. The epic tale of the Norwegian commandos who parachuted onto the Vidda (mountain plateau) in the winter and skied, climbed, and clawed their way to the plant to blow up the heavy water reserves, sounds like a movie, and did become one starring Kirk Douglas. Retired US Army Special Forces Lieutenant Colonel Mitch Utterback was drawn to the famous World War II sabotage mission and recently retraced the ski tracks of the Heroes of Telemark. In 2023, for the 80th anniversary, Utterback and a team of 11 other military veterans recreated the perilous journey that the saboteurs took across the Vidda. Their expedition was captured in the short documentary film Hardangerfolk which brings the danger and intensity of the mission to life. Utterback's background in special forces and his experience of the conditions that the saboteurs endured has given him a unique perspective on this epic mission which the Spy Museum features in our Covert Action gallery. Visit www.spymuseum.org.
March 2025
April 2025
CANCELLED - 30 Apr - 02 May 2025 – In Person – Cryptologic History Symposium - National Cryptological Foundation and NSA Center for Cryptologic History, Johns Hopkins University, Maryland
From NSA, please note: We regretfully announce that the Cryptologic History Symposium that was scheduled from April 30 - May 2, 2025 has been postponed, with the intent to
reschedule some time in 2026. Facing staffing shortages, administrative
delays, and other considerations, the Center for Cryptologic History is
unable to run the Symposium as originally planned.
Since 1990, the Cryptologic History Symposium has served as an opportunity to present historical scholarship found in unclassified and declassified cryptologic records and engage in discussion about their significance to history. The event is an occasion for historians and those interested in history to gather for reflection and debate on relevant and important topics from the cryptologic past. Regular speakers include historians from CCH, the Intelligence Community, the defense establishment, the military services, scholars from American and international academic institutions, veterans of the cryptologic profession, graduate and undergraduate students, and noted authors. Past symposia have featured scholarship that set out new ways to consider our cryptologic heritage. The conference provides many opportunities to interact with leading historians and other experts. The mix of practitioners, scholars, and interested observers guarantees a lively debate that promotes an enhanced appreciation for past events and their applicability to current and future issues. More information and registration here.
May 2025
June 2025
July 2025
August 2025
September 2025
October 2025
November 2025
December 2025
UPCOMING EVENTS IN 2026 WILL BE HERE WHEN AVAILABLE
 The National Cryptologic Foundation VIRTUAL PROGRAMS
NCF Virtual Education Programs
Details on the Virtual Education Programs of the National
Cryptologic Museum Foundation are available here Other NCF Events can be
found here on NCF website here, and CCH website here.
NCF #CYBERCHATS - FOR THE K-12 COMMUNITY
Our #CyberChats are designed to promote cybersecurity education and inspire students to pursue a cyber-related career. NCF #CyberChats are hosted in our Nepris online classroom and also via Zoom. The Chats feature a wide variety of cyber experts and professionals, some who are NCF members. These dedicated professionals share their experiences, insights, advice, and resources with students, parents, and teachers. Chats on a specific topic are often specifically requested by classrooms across the U.S.
Visit the #CyberChat Library
NCF CRYPTOLOGIC PROGRAMS (VIRTUAL)
The NCF hosts quarterly cryptologic programs, as well as an annual Membership Meeting & Symposium featuring guest speakers. We also partner with the NSA's Center for Cryptologic History in promoting various programs & lectures. During our Anniversary year (April 2021-April 2022), we are hosting a variety of additional special programs and talks, such as our kickoff event in April 2021 that featured a panel of former NSA directors.
In 2021, we began hosting virtual programs via Zoom. However, prior to that our programs were in person. If you are interested in seeing recaps and photos from those prior events, please visit the Quarterly Programs page or Membership Meeting & Symposium page.
View Past NCF Virtual Cryptologic Programs
NCF PARTNER PROGRAMS
The NCF's Education Program hosts Cybersecurity Events with the University of Maryland Global Campus (UMGC), as well as other community partners.The programs highlight relevant cybersecurity topics and feature experts in the field. These events take multiple forms, to include webinars and special events at locations around the National Capitol Region.
View the Selection of Partner Programs
NCF PARTICIPATION
Just as the NCF enjoys interviewing professionals and experts for our #CyberChats and Cryptologic Programs, our staff likewise enjoys the opportunity to be interviewed for other organizations' programs or podcasts regarding their experience and knowledge.
NCF Interviews & Participation
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