This course is an introduction to counterintelligence, one of the four principal elements of intelligence. The purpose of counterintelligence is to prevent foreign intelligence operatives from penetrating one’s own security services, an extraordinarily complex task that requires exceptional analytical and human skills. Students will learn to distinguish the conceptual distinctions between traditional law enforcement approaches to counterintelligence, which focus more narrowly on the surveillance and arrest of foreign intelligence operatives, and the subtler and Machiavellian approach geared toward “turning” such operatives into “double agents” who can then be used covertly to manipulate their host agencies.

This course surveys the historical development of intelligence organizations in various parts of the world. Students will be able to describe and explain the historical development of intelligence tradecraft for the periods studied, from the time of the Renaissance to the present day and be able to bring these “lessons learned” to bear on present-day intelligence issues.

PDF File: The 1980s in the United States brought a lot more than rock bands and big hair. A mass amount of Top-Secret Intelligence had been sold by a few men for a lot of money. Three men individually, Edward Lee Howard, Robert Hanssen, and Aldrich Ames. Though never working together, these three men managed to sell and sell out almost every single Soviet Source that the United States had.