Program: Iranian Intelligence:Suppressing Freedom, Outwitting the West
Presenter:
Clare M. Lopez,
Professor, Centre for Counterintelligence and Security Studies; Vice President, The Intelligence Summit
Date: October 27, 2009 Time: 1:00 to 2:00 p.m.
A preparatory class session, featuring Dr. Neda Zawahri from the CSU Political Science Department, will be held on Monday, October 19th from 9:15 to 10:15 a.m.
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• Senior level intelligence consultant and strategic policy analyst
• 27+ years experience in government, the Intelligence Community, and the private sector
• University lecturer, public events speaker, and published author on Middle East, Iran, Arab and Islamic culture, WMD, and transnational terrorism issues
• Strong expertise in HUMINT project management
• Vice President of The Intelligence Summit, a non-profit educational forum
• Member of the Board of Directors, Institute of World Affairs
• Member of the Intelligence Research & Analysis Degree Program Board of Advisors
• Former Executive Director of the Iran Policy Committee, a Washington, DC think tank
• Professor, Centre for Counterintelligence and Security Studies
CI Centre Professor Clare Lopez served in the CIA for 20 years, from 1980 to 2000, as a senior Directorate of Operations case officer. She served four tours overseas and multiple TDY assignments worldwide including Africa, Central/South America and the Balkans, with a focus on the USSR/Russia. Her primary responsibilities included production, implementation of operational plans to fulfill national-level HUMINT requirements in counterintelligence, counternarcotics, counterproliferation, WMD, and Advanced Conventional Weapons threat arenas. Lopez’s key success was development and management of a highly productive operations unit to target WMD programs of critical national security concern to the U.S. She supervised and performed research/analysis of target programs; directed, produced detailed targeting studies, managed complex intelligence operations to implement the targeting objectives.
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