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CONTENTS Section I - INTELLIGENCE HIGHLIGHTS
Section II - CONTEXT & PRECEDENCE
Section IV - OBITUARIES, RESEARCH
Call for Papers - Deadline is 30 June 2016 - Topic: “Creating and Challenging the Transatlantic Intelligence Community“ - for Joint Conference in March-April 2017 in Washington, DC
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Wednesday, 1 June 2016, 7:30 - 8:45pm - McLean, VA "How Jihadists Weaponize Islamic History and How to De-Weaponize It" featuring Nibras Kazimi at the Westminster Institute Religious extremists in the Middle East, both Sunni and Shia, have succeeded in weaponizing memory. They wield historical precedence to inform and legitimize their actions and strategies. Nibras Kazimi, an Iraqi citizen, will discuss how they do this and how to undermine their legitimacy by de-weaponizing precedence. Nibras Kazimi's blog, Talisman Gate, was one of the most riveting Iraqi blogs written from Baghdad in the midst of its drama and turmoil and was renowned for its acute political insight. He has resumed writing the blog at Talisman Gate, Again. His research focuses on the growing threat of jihadism in the Middle East, as well as prospects for democracy in the region. His primary interest is the national security of Iraq and how threats there are enabled and coordinated by regional Middle Eastern actors and factors. Kazimi directed the Research Bureau of the Iraqi National Congress in Washington, DC and Baghdad, and was a pro-bono adviser for the Higher National Commission for De-Ba'athification. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Hudson Institute and wrote a weekly column for The New York Sun and a monthly column for Prospect magazine (UK). He has published several papers on jihadism as well as articles in publications such as Newsweek and the New Republic. He is the author of the monograph Syria Through Jihadist Eyes: A Perfect Enemy. He is a member of The Atlantic Council's 2016 Iraq Task Force. Where: The Westminster Institute, 6729 Curran St, McLean, VA
22101. 2016 Western Hemisphere Security Forum at the Daniel Morgan Academy, Washington, DC Wednesday, 8 June 2016, 9am - 5pm Event by invitation only. Crime and Cryptology Hear Daniel Olson, Chief of Cryptanalysis speak on 20 June 2016, 9:30 to 11 a.m. RSVP now to attend the 2016 Schorreck Memorial Lecture Speaker Series. This year's program features special guest Daniel Olson, Chief of the Cryptanalysis and Racketeering Records Unit at the FBI Laboratory in Quantico, VA. Highlights will include solved and unsolved ciphers from notorious criminals such as the Zodiac Killer of the 1960s, BTK serial killer Dennis Raeder, as well as the enciphered journal of UNABOMBER Ted Kaczynski. This series is sponsored by the Center for Cryptologic History and
held at the National Cryptologic Museum. International Security & Intelligence Program 18 July thru 5 August 2016 |
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Section I - INTELLIGENCE HIGHLIGHTS
Russian Deep-Cover Spy Sentenced in New York Court. A Russian intelligence officer, who posed as a banker in the United States, has been handed a prison sentence by a court in New York. Evgeny Buryakov, 41, posed as an employee of the New York branch of Vnesheconombank, a Russian state-owned bank headquartered in Moscow. However, in January 2015, the Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested Buryakov along with Igor Sporyshev, 40, and Victor Podobnyy, 27, who were employees of the trade office of the Russian permanent mission to the United Nations in New York. According to their indictment, Sporyshev and Podobnyy were in fact employees of the SVR, Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service, one of the direct institutional descendants of the Soviet-era KGB. The FBI said the two were employed by the SVR's 'ER' Directorate, which focuses on economics and finance. Operating under diplomatic guise, they regularly met with Buryakov, who the FBI said was the third member of the alleged spy ring.Section II - CONTEXT & PRECEDENCE
Wanted - Middle Aged Mothers to Spy for MI5 (Flexible Hours Available): Intelligence Agencies Target Women After Being Told to Become More Diverse. It is a long way from the James Bond stereotype of the rugged, muscular, philanderer-cum-spy.Section IV - OBITUARIES, JOBS AND RESEARCH REQUESTS
Dagmar H. "Dasha" Stapleton. Dagmar H. Stapleton passed away peacefully on May 23, 2016 at home in Middleburg, VA. She was 85. Dagmar "Dasha" to her Czech friends, was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, on March 30, 1931, the only child of a prominent Czech family. The Novak family held various business interests.
Her father was an engineer and her grandfather had served as Minister of Commerce in the early days of the Czechoslovak republic. When the Communist Party took over the government in the late 1940s, it began a roundup of intellectual, political and business leaders who were perceived as potential threats to the regime. Dagmar's family was one of those targeted. Her father was arrested and jailed. Her uncle, who had helped Nazi victims escape the country during World War II, now had to flee himself from the Communists.
At the time, Dagmar had a job at the Joint Allied Passport Office in Prague. Her British boss was charged with spying and deported. Dagmar was arrested and jailed. After her release from prison but still subject to police surveillance, Dagmar and a girlfriend escaped across the Czech border into Germany. Dagmar was 19 at the time.
Reaching West Germany, she sought help from the American occupation authorities. They answered with a position in Frankfurt on the staff of John J. McCloy, US High Commissioner for Germany. After serving in this position for more than a year and upon McCloy's recommendation, she was granted entry to the United States and later became a US citizen. Later and with great pride, she joined the Central Intelligence Agency.
She served there for many years as an intelligence officer and ultimately as Chief of the Czech desk in the Eastern European Group of the SE Division of the Directorate of Operations. During her tenure she received awards for exceptional service from the CIA and a special award from the National Security Agency. She retired in 1994 and since then was active in supporting animal causes. [Read more: WashingtonPost/25May2016]
Jane
Fawcett, Bletchley Decoder. Jane Fawcett. who has died aged
95, played a key role at Bletchley Park in the sinking in May 1941 of
Bismarck, and went on after the war to save St. Pancras and its Gothic
Midland Hotel from the modernisers of British Rail.
As one of the very first debs recruited to work at Bletchley Park, Jane
Hughes, as she then was, was put to work in Hut 6, where the German Army
and Luftwaffe Enigma ciphers were broken and where her knowledge of German
would help in decoding the enemy's messages.
On May 25 1941, with the Royal Navy hunting down Bismarck in the North
Atlantic, she was one of several staff briefed on the latest situation as
they came on shift: "We all knew that we'd got the fleet out in the
Atlantic trying to locate her because she was the Germans' most important,
latest battleship and had better guns and so on than anybody else, and
she'd already sunk the Hood. So it was vitally important to find where she
was and try to get rid of her."
Just over an hour into her shift, she was typing out a Luftwaffe Enigma
message on the specially adapted British machines which were designed to
replicate the German Enigma device. As she typed out the message she
realised that it was from Luftwaffe headquarters in Berlin telling
somebody important that Bismarck was heading for the French port of
Brest. [Read more: TheTelegraph/25May2016]
John
Kenneth Knaus, CIA Officer Who Aided in Tibetan Struggle, dies at
92. John Kenneth Knaus, a CIA case officer who in the late
1950s and in the 1960s helped train and direct Tibetan guerrillas against
Chinese occupiers, only to see US support for the policy later
evaporate, died April 18 at a hospital in Washington. He was 92.
The cause was an intracranial hemorrhage, said his son, John Kenneth Knaus
Jr.
During a 43-year CIA career, Mr. Knaus was based at times in India, Japan
and Canada, and a substantial focus of his work involved aiding Tibetan
guerrillas in their resistance against communist China.
After retiring in 1995, Mr. Knaus wrote two books based on his Tibetan
experience, Orphans of the Cold War: America and the Tibetan Struggle for
Survival, (1999), and Beyond Shangri-La: America and Tibet's Move into
the Twenty-First Century (2012). In his Los Angeles Times review,
journalist and longtime China scholar Orville Schell called Orphans of
the Cold War"superbly well-researched and written." [Barnes/WashingtonPost/26May2016]
Call For Paper: “Creating and Challenging the Transatlantic Intelligence Community“ - Joint Conference in March-April 2017 in Washington, DC.
“Creating and Challenging the Transatlantic Intelligence Community“ will take place in
Washington, D.C., next year on March 30 - April 1, 2017
Joint Conveners: International Intelligence History Association, German Historical Institute, and the History & Public Policy Program of the Woodrow Wilson Center
Transatlantic intelligence cooperation played a key role in collecting and analyzing inform-ation during the Cold War, and the resulting intelligence product informed the decision-mak-ing process at the highest levels of government in Europe as well as in the United States. The need for intelligence cooperation has become even more urgent after 9/11, as nations on both sides of the Atlantic are facing terrorist threats, and are confronting a host of other challenges posed by non-state actors, such as arms and drug trafficking as well as organized crime.
The conference will review the origins of the transatlantic intelligence partnership during the immediate postwar years and its evolution during the Cold War. It will explore the mecha-nisms for intelligence exchange between individual agencies as well as the ad hoc and infor-mal interactions between members of intelligence organizations. In addition, papers will ex-amine the causes and consequences of frictions in this intelligence partnership that have oc-curred over the past decades. While some conflicts were due to continued compartmentaliza-tion of national intelligence organizations, others resulted from often conflicting bilateral or multilateral agreements and from an unequal relationship between individual agencies.
The conference, jointly convened by the International Intelligence History Association, the History & Public Policy Program of the Woodrow Wilson Center, and the German Historical Institute, will be held at the Woodrow Wilson Center and at the German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C., (March 30-April 1, 2017). The conference theme is broadly conceived and will provide for a wide range of discussions and a variety of papers relating to intelligence and international relations. It seeks to encompass past, current, and future developments, as well as analyses and trends in intelligence research.
Due to the complexity of its subject, the study of intelligence draws on a number of disci-plines, including history, security and intelligence studies, political science, sociology, phys-ics, engineering, and mathematics. We invite proposals from all fields of academic inquiry, exploring any organizational or operational aspect of intelligence services. While the transat-lantic intelligence relationship after 1945 constitutes the main focus of the conference, pro-posals addressing intelligence issues outside these temporal and geographical boundaries will be considered as well.
We encourage paper proposals from young researchers and doctoral students as well as from established scholars and former practitioners.
TO REPLY OR SUBMIT PAPER ABSTRACT: Please submit your paper proposal abstract of 150-300 words and a short CV by email to the IIHA Executive Director Anna Abelmann at: exec_director@intelligence-history.org.
The deadline for submissions is June 30, 2016. Acceptance notifications will be sent out in late July.
AFIO EDUCATIONAL EVENTS IN COMING TWO MONTHS....
Thursday, 2 June 2016 - San Francisco, CA - The AFIO Andre LeGallo Chapter hosts Dr. Matthew Brazil, Research Fellow, Jamestown Foundation
Mr. Matt Brazil will discuss Chinas Harder Line Against
Foreign Influence - Implications for US Business.
Venue: United Irish Cultural Center, 2700 45th Avenue, San Francisco.
11:30am no host cocktail; meeting and luncheon at noon.
Register here.
Reservation and pre-payment is required before May 26, 2016. The venue
cannot accommodate walk-ins.
Please contact Mariko Kawaguchi, Board Secretary at afiosf@aol.com or Mariko Kawaguchi, c/o AFIO, P.O. Box 117578, Burlingame, CA 94011 for
questions.
16 June 2016, 12:30 - 2pm - Los Angeles, CA - The AFIO L.A. Chapter hosts Kenneth Daigler on Spies, Patriots, and Traitors
Former CIA officer Kenneth Daigler will discuss key
aspects of his book Spies, Patriots, and Traitors. The cost of
the meeting will be $15 and will include a copy of the book and
refreshments served. Please RSVP: afio_la@yahoo.com
Meeting Location: LAPD-ARTC 5651 W. Manchester Ave Los Angeles, CA 90045
BIO: Ken Daigler is a retired career CIA operations officer, previously
holding several key operations positions in the agency, and is a recipient
of the William Donovan Award & Distinguished Career Intelligence
Medal. In addition, he has consulted for the Department of Defense in the
area of counterintelligence. He has a BA in history from Centre College of
Kentucky and an MA in history from the Maxwell School at Syracuse
University and has served in the US Marine Corps.
Wednesday, 22 June 2016, 5:30pm - New York, NY - Len Predtechenskis, former FBI, discusses "Operating Techniques for Recruiting Foreign Nationals" - at this Metro NY Chapter Meeting.
SPEAKER: Len Predtechenskis, Retired
FBI Special Agent. He operated undercover, recruited many Soviet/Russian
agents for the US Government, debriefed and resettled dozens of defectors,
directed/lead agent in many "false flag", "red herring" and "double agent"
operations.
TOPIC: "Operating Techniques for Recruiting Foreign Nationals"
LOCATION: Society of Illustrators building, 128 East 63rd Street. Between
Park & Lexington Ave.
TIME: Registration starts 5:30 PM Meeting starts 6:00 PM
COST: $50/person. Payment at the door, cash & check only. Full dinner,
cash bar.
REGISTER: Strongly suggested, not required. Phone Jerry Goodwin
646-717-3776 or Email: afiometro@gmail.com
Wednesday, 1 June 2016, 7:30 - 8:45pm - McLean, VA - "How Jihadists Weaponize Islamic History and How to De-Weaponize It" by Nibras Kazimi at the Westminster Institute
Religious extremists in the Middle East, both Sunni and Shia, have succeeded in weaponizing memory. They wield historical precedence to inform and legitimize their actions and strategies. Nibras Kazimi, an Iraqi citizen, will discuss how they do this and how to undermine their legitimacy by de-weaponizing precedence.
Nibras Kazimi's blog, Talisman Gate, was one of the most riveting Iraqi blogs written from Baghdad in the midst of its drama and turmoil and was renowned for its acute political insight. He has resumed writing the blog at Talisman Gate, Again. His research focuses on the growing threat of jihadism in the Middle East, as well as prospects for democracy in the region. His primary interest is the national security of Iraq and how threats there are enabled and coordinated by regional Middle Eastern actors and factors.
Kazimi directed the Research Bureau of the Iraqi National Congress in Washington, DC and Baghdad, and was a pro-bono adviser for the Higher National Commission for De-Ba'athification. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Hudson Institute and wrote a weekly column for The New York Sun and a monthly column for Prospect magazine (UK). He has published several papers on jihadism as well as articles in publications such as Newsweek and the New Republic. He is the author of the monograph Syria Through Jihadist Eyes: A Perfect Enemy. He is a member of The Atlantic Council's 2016 Iraq Task Force.
Where: The Westminster Institute, 6729 Curran St, McLean, VA 22101.
Register
Now!
Wednesday, 8 June 2016, 9am - 5pm - Washington, DC - 2016 Western Hemisphere Security Forum by the Daniel Morgan Academy
Event open by invitation only.
Organized criminal networks in the Western Hemisphere and their ability to
integrate domestic gangs and international terrorist syndicates pose a
grave and multi-dimensional threat to regional stability. Many regional
governments in the Western Hemisphere have become closely aligned with
this crime-terror nexus, as well as with extra-regional state actors,
namely China, Russia and Iran―offsetting US influence in the region.
This one-day seminar on security in the Western Hemisphere, sponsored by
the Center for a Secure Free Society and co-hosted by the Daniel Morgan
Academy, brings together panels of experts who will share insight and
perspectives on the threats of these extra-regional actors, the pressing
security challenges in the area, and suggest solutions to rethink and
improve US standing in the region.
Please note: This DMA seminar is an invitation-only event and not open to
the general public. Contact DMA for more information.
Speakers/Panelists include...Amb Joseph R. DeTrani, DMA
President; Amb Curt Winsor, former FSO, Costa Rica; Joseph
M. Humire, Executive Director, Center for a Secure Free Society
(SFS); Douglas Farah, Senior Visiting Fellow, Center for
Complex Operations, NDU; Ilan Berman, Vice President,
American Foreign Policy Council; Dr. R. Evan Ellis,
Research Professor, Strategic Studies Institute, US Army War College; Dr.
Michael Sharnoff, Associate Professor of Middle East Studies
and Director of the Regional Studies Program at DMA; Roger
Pardo-Maurer, former US Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense
for Western Hemisphere Affairs; and Fernando Men'ndez,
Senior Fellow, Center for a Secure Free Society (SFS).
Event location: Daniel Morgan Academy, 1620 L St NW, #700, Washington, DC
20036, Near Farragut North and West Metro Stations
Inquiries about attending: Frank Fletcher, Director of Lectures and
Seminars, Fletcher@DanielMorgan.academy or call 202-759-4988
More information online here.
Monday, 13 June 2016, 11:30 am - Washington, DC - "Uphill Battle: Reflections on Vietnam Counterinsurgency" topic of Frank Scotton's presentation at Daniel Morgan Academy
Event by invitation-only.
Frank Scotton will discuss lessons he learned regarding
counterinsurgency, based upon his many years of service with the United
States Information Service in the Republic of South Vietnam.
Scotton retired in 1998 as the assistant director for East Asia at the US
Information Agency of the State Department. He began his overseas career
more than 50 years ago in Vietnam. Between 1962 and 1975, he spent part of
each year in Vietnam with the US Information Service and then took
assignments with the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV)/Civil
Operations and Revolutionary Development Support (CORDS) and with the
Joint United States Public Affairs Office (JUSPAO), merged USIA, State
Department, and Defense Department public affairs elements in Vietnam
Reception at 11:30 am; Lecture starts at noon followed by Q & A
LOCATION: Daniel Morgan Academy, 1620 L St NW, 7th Floor, Washington, DC
20036; Near Farragut North and West Metro Stations
For more information or to RSVP or contact Frank
Fletcher, Director of Lectures and Seminars, DMA at Fletcher@DanielMorgan.academy;
call 202-759-4988.
Thursday, 16 June 2016, 5:30pm- 8:00pm ' Washington, DC ' KidSpy: Spy Fiction Writer's Workshop at the International Spy Museum
The shadow world of spying has captured the imagination of authors for centuries. Join Melissa Mahle, former CIA intelligence officer and author of Anatolia Steppe: Lost in Petra and Camp Secret, and discover how her skills as a real former spy helped her develop characters and stories for her book. Children and teenagers ages 9-14 will develop the plot and storyline that grips readers' attention and quickens their pulses. Tickets include dinner. Advance registration required. Tickets: $30. Visit www.spymuseum.org
21 June 2016, 11:30am - McLean, VA - Defense Intelligence Forum hears from Allen Keiswetter, FSO, on "Middle East Update"
Mr. Allen Keiswetter will speak on “Middle East Update: Discussions on Syria, Iraq and the Islamic State as well as Obama’s legacy in the Middle East” at the Defense Intelligence Forum luncheon.
Keiswetter, a retired Senior Foreign Service Officer, is a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near East Affairs. His responsibilities included Iraq, Iran and Saudi Arabia. He served in six Arab countries including Iraq and Saudi Arabia. As a scholar at the Middle East Institute, he made more than 200 media appearances on CNN, BBC, Fox News, and other news outlets. He taught courses on the Persian Gulf, Islam and the Middle East at the National Defense Intelligence College, the National War College, and the University of Maryland.
Event location: Pulcinella Restaurant, 6852 Old Dominion Dr, McLean, VA
Pay at the door with a check for $29 payable to DIAA, Inc. Registration starts at 1130 AM, lunch at 1200 PM
The forum follows modified Chatham House rule: you may use the information, but with the exception of speaker's name and subject, you may make no attribution. Everything will be off the record.
Reservations due by 19 June 2016 by email to diforum@diaalumni.org. Include names, telephone numbers, and email addresses. For each attendee, choose among chicken cacciatore, tilapia puttanesca, lasagna, sausage with peppers, fettuccini with portabella for your luncheon selection. Please send in your luncheon selection with your reservation to reduce the wait time for your food,
Checks are preferred, but will accept cash; however, credit card payments are discouraged.
Monday, 27 June 2016, 6:30-9pm - Washington, DC - Lockpicking 101 - International Spy Museum Spy School Workshop
Spying today may seem dominated by the digital realm of hackers,
cryptography, and eavesdropping, but the field operative will never go
away. In the physical world, where secrets are under lock and key,
sometimes the only way in is to pick the lock.
In this workshop, led by Preston Thomas, president of
the DC Chapter of The Open Organization Of Lockpickers, you'll learn the
art and science of how locks work-and how to open them. From classical
picking to field expedient methods, we will survey the tools and
techniques necessary to attack many common locks. Try your hand at getting
out of handcuffs and zip ties. Discover if you really can escape with just
your wits and a bobby pin. Participants will work in small groups getting
hands-on practice with lockpicking experts, and once you've got "the
touch," you can put your skills to the test against other students.
Location: City Tap House, 901 9th St NW, Washington, DC - Gallery
Place/Chinatown Metrorail Station
High-quality lock picking kits will be available to take home after the
class for $25 (cash or check). Please email soltmans@spymusem.org if you would like one.
Food and drink will be available for purchase throughout the event.
TICKETS: $35. Space limited to 30 - advance registration required. No
tickets available at event. To register contact aabrell@spymuseum.org
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