Please join us for this first members only event of 2010 to introduce new chapter officers and directors and other exciting news.  InfraGard is assisting DHS Office of Infrastructure Protection on a nationwide strategy in 2010-11 and the Nation's Capital chapter is finalizing its public outreach, education and exercise priorities for the next 12 months.

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The topic of this Presentation will be an In-depth Analysis of the Fort Hood Shooting in 2009.

Our Guest Speaker:

David G. Major

•  Founder and President, CI Centre

•  A leading authority, expert and teacher on counterintelligence and counterterrorism

•  Senior FBI Executive

•  FBI career focused on counterintelligence, counterterrorism 

•  Counterintelligence Advisor to President Reagan, National Security Council

•  Board Member: Association For Intelligence Officers (AFIO) and International Spy Museum

•  US Army veteran 

David Major has made a life-long commitment to the practice and study of counterintelligence and its subset, counterterrorism, making him one of the nation's top experts on the subject. His views and advice are sought after by the government, private companies and national and international media.

Major has a passion for helping people gain a greater understanding of the importance of counterintelligence and counterterrorism, and has been giving speeches and training people since the 1970's. He is known as a dynamic, enthusiastic and incredibly interesting speaker who holds the audience captivated on any topic. He is able to speak on unlimited number of different topics, many which are taken directly from segments in the highly-rated courses his training company provides.

Major served in the FBI from a street agent to a senior official and worked foreign counterintelligence his entire career. He has been involved in various ways in nearly all major espionage case of the past 30 years and has recruited, run and handled agents, double agents and defectors as well as caught spies. Major also used his counterintelligence skills to work against radical groups like the Black Panthers, KKK and others.

Major's skills and abilities propelled him to being named by the FBI to being the first FBI official to be assigned to the National Security Council. He served as the Director, Intelligence and Counterintelligence Programs in 1985 and 1986, and briefed and advised President Reagan on counterintelligence matters. He was also instrumental in an administration effort to decrease the number of Soviet intelligence officers in the US, which were overwhelming the FBI's resources. As a result, over 80 Soviet KGB and GRU officers were expelled from the United States.

Upon retiring from the FBI, Major founded the Centre for Counterintelligence and Security Studies to provide high-quality counterintelligence, counterterrorism and security training for the government and corporate sector. The Centre has trained nearly 10,000 people in counterintelligence, intelligence, counterterrorism and security topics.

Major is a host of an internal government TV series with over 154 episodes called CI-TV which helps educate government personnel on lessons learned from espionage and terrorism cases. As an outreach program for the public, he helped develop the concepts of SpyDrive® and SpyCruise® as a way of teaching people about the reality of espionage and the importance of vigilance. Both of these products received world-wide media coverage and attention.

In February 2001, the arrest of senior FBI agent Robert Hanssen stunned the nation, and no more so than David Major. Major had known Hanssen for 20 years as a coworker and was his supervisor at one point. An expert knowledge of counterintelligence combined with being driven to understand Hanssen and his actions has made Major truly the one of the country's top experts on the case. He has developed an extensive and comprehensive presentation to show the man, his methods, his damage and lessons learned.

When CBS-TV had director/producer Lawrence Schiller and author Norman Mailer create a movie about Robert Hanssen, they hired Major and his company to be the technical advisors. Major briefed Schiller and Mailer on the case and showed them where Hanssen lived, worked and operated as a spy. He also briefed and advised actors William Hurt, Ron Silver and Wayne Knight on the case and the characters they would be playing in the movie. Schiller based the character Ron Silver played, as Hanssen's boss, on David Major.

Major's expertise in the areas of counterintelligence and intelligence led him to be named to the select group of advisory board members of the International Spy Museum in Washington, DC.

Major is a graduate of Syracuse University and served as a US Army Captain in the Chemical Corps and then the Armor Branch from 1966 to 1968.

Retired Senior US Army Counterintelligence Special Agent

CI Centre Mission:

The CI Centre, a veteran owned, Virginia-based corporation, was founded in 1997 by David Major. Mr. Major is a retired, senior FBI Supervisory Special Agent who spent his career (1970-1994) working, supervising, and managing counterintelligence and counterterrorism cases. Since 1976, he has become a nationally recognized counterintelligence educator and speaker to government and corporate audiences. During the Reagan administration, Mr. Major was appointed the first Director of Counterintelligence Programs to the National Security Council staff. Mr. Major briefed and advised President Reagan, Intelligence Community leaders, and cabinet secretaries on counterintelligence policy and operational matters.

At the CI Centre, students learn directly from seasoned veterans who were successful in the counterintelligence, counterterrorism, security and intelligence professions. Our experienced instructors served in the FBI, CIA, Defense Department, Military Intelligence, State Department, Department of Justice, Canadian RCMP and Cuban DI. Many are also Middle East/Terrorism experts and authors and accomplished intelligence historians and authors. We have a proven track record of presenting dynamic, in-depth and powerful "culture-changing" courses that create a real buy-in and support of CI, CT and security disciplines.

Teaching courses since 1995, The Centre for Counterintelligence and Security Studies^® (CI Centre) provides dynamic, in-depth and relevant education, training and products on counterintelligence, counterterrorism and security.

Our programs are designed to enhance your organization’s mission and to protect your information, facilities and personnel from foreign intelligence collectors, global terrorists and competitor threats.