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Vol. IV, Issue No. 1 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCI ATION FOR INTELLIGENCE EDUCATION Fall/Winter 2011 Special points of IAFIE interest: 2011 Annual Conference Instructor of the Year Newsletter Essay Winners New Publications IAFIE’s 7th Annual Conference in Washington, DC New Chair’s Message zation ideas, and flash mobs. Upcoming Events IAFIE’s seventh annual were very well received. Dr. conference was held at the Larry Valero, winner of the Thomas Ryan, Provide Secu- Author’s Roundtable Paul H. Nitze School of Ad- Instructor of the Year award rity, described his experiment vanced International Studies, for this year, also presented on using the Robin Sage Face- Johns Hopkins University, Tuesday morning. book site as a fake persona to Washington, DC, from June 6 identify risks and security through 9, 2011. The confer- The three concurrent work- threats of social networking ence was organized by IAFIE shop sessions began Tuesday sites. The Russian Illegal afternoon and continued Deep-cover Spies’ presentation Inside this issue: event chairperson, Edna Reid, and IAFIE former Chair, through Thursday noon. by Mark Stout, historian, In- Workshop topics included ternational Spy Museum, Annual 1 Marilyn Peterson. The formal Challenges in Analytic Trade- highlighted the tradecraft of Conference conference was Tuesday through Thursday, but it be- craft, Data Exploitation and ten Russian spies arrested in Elections 2 gan with a pre-day on Monday Visualization, Internet and June 2010. Deepa Gupta and which included workshops on Visualization, Intelligence Brian Speilberg, San Diego Instructor of the 4 Analysis of Critical Infrastruc- State University, discussed Year critical thinking, intelligence education, regional studies, ture Protection (CIP), Chal- their National Science Foun- Essay Contest 5 and threat finance. An IAFIE lenges in Intelligence Law, and dation (NSF) research on Honor Society 6 Board meeting was also held the Current State of the Inter- Mapping the Spread of Ideas national Intelligence Disci- from Cyberspace to Real- New Publications 6 on Monday, and a ‘meet and greet’ was held at the nearby pline. Presentations on De- Space. Chris Yang, iSchool, Educational 7 Beacon Hotel. nial and Deception, Current Drexel University, described Practices Approaches to Gaming and his research using social net- About 80 persons from Simulation, the IAFIE Honor work applications to identify Messages from Past 8 seven countries (U.S., Canada, Society, and Countering Ter- influencers and analyze the and Current Australia, the Netherlands, rorism were also given. The diffusion of flash mobs within Chairs Mexico, Sweden, and Nigeria) conference was capped off by a geographic area. attended the conference plus an evening visit to the Interna- Upcoming Events 9 22 presenters who did not stay tional Spy Museum Tuesday, The conference emphasized current challenges in the Authors’ 10 for the entire conference. The including a reception at Zola global intelligence community, Roundtable keynote speaker was Brigadier Restaurant which is upstairs General Vincent R. Stewart, from the Museum.. innovative research, inter- Call for 13 Director, Intelligence disciplinary collaboration, and Submissions (DIRINT), Headquarters, U.S. Some workshops were de- new opportunities such as the Marine Corps, who spoke on voted to sharing research re- education of library/ “Marine Expeditionary Intelli- sults about recent challenges: information science special- gence Analysis for the 21st social networking sites,21st ists ... Century.” His candid and century tradecraft of Russian knowledgeable comments spies, online spread of radicali- IAFIE Newsletter Page 2 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCI ATION FOR INTELLIGENCE EDUCATION 2011 Annual Conference continued... to become intelligence profes- about IAFIE Conference and Military University, Johns Hop- sionals – untapped market. librarians/information profes- kins University, CQ Press, About a dozen members of the sionals exploring the world of Henley-Putnam University, Tay- library and information science intelligence analysis http:// lor and Francis, and the Na- community attended the confer- dcslanew.blogspot.com/2011/0 tional Defense Intelligence Col- ence to give innovative presenta- 5/diverse-universe-exploring- lege. tions, enhance their knowledge world-of.html. At the IAFIE conference, of the intelligence discipline, The IAFIE conference in- some participating academic and strengthen their networks. cluded a formal luncheon, spon- institutions included: American These included Blane Dessy, sored by American Military Uni- Military University, Penn State Director, Federal Library and versity (AMU) at the Beacon University, Swedish National Information Center Commit- Hotel. The annual Essay Con- Defense Academy, U.S. Coast tee , Eva Piorkowski , iSchool test awards were presented at Guard Academy, George Mason Institute, Faculty of Informa- the conference, with LCDR Eric University, James Madison tion, University of Toronto, Casler presenting the concepts University, University of Cal- Canada, Ingrid Hsieh-Yee Act- IAFIE is now from his paper, "The Boston Tea gary, University of Mississippi, ing Dean, the School of Library Party Covert Action, Intelli- Florida International University, and Information Studies, Catho- under a new Board gence Success.” Later that after- Notre Dame College, Eastern lic University, Yejun Wu, noon, IAFIE’s Annual Meeting Kentucky University, Drexel School of Library and Informa- was held, including plaques University, San Diego State of outstanding tion Science, Louisiana State being awarded to retiring Board University, University of Mary- University, and Chris Koh, members and the election for land University College, Mac- leaders, thanks to iSchool at Drexel University. new officers continuing. Both quarie University, Charles Sturt They would enjoy hearing from candidates for chair, Jonathan University, Saint Augustine elections held IAFIE members who are inter- Lockwood and Joseph Gordon, College, National Defense Intel- ested in networking and collabo- presented their ideas for the ligence College, Mercyhurst peacefully this past ration. For background infor- future of IAFIE. Conference College, and Mississippi State. mation, see Reid’s blog article summer. exhibitors included American Democracy Flourishes with IAFIE Elections IAFIE is now under a new Board by someone else; there were no University) was announced to the of outstanding leaders, thanks to holdovers as was the case in previ- general membership. Putting the elections held peacefully this past ous years. slate together was a challenge; it summer (not all entities are so took lots of volunteers and a little The process worked like this: lucky!). According to the organi- arm-twisting to assemble a group zation’s by-laws, officers are Several weeks prior to the annual of high-quality candidates. Mem- conference, a slate of nominees elected for a two-year term, and by bers could vote right away elec- the luck of the draw the Board of prepared by the Nominating tronically or by fax, or they could Committee (yours truly ably as- Directors now sports an entirely wait and cast their votes in person new team. All the sitting officers sisted by Melissa Graves of the during the business meeting held University of Mississippi and Jez had either completed their own during the conference, where term or finished out a term begun Littlewood of Canada’s Carleton some other names surfaced. At Vol. IV, Issue No. 1 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCI ATION FOR INTELLIGENCE EDUCATION Page 3 IAFIE Elections continued... that meeting, for example, the University. Andy is a retired from Cambridge University, two candidates for Chair spoke Rear Admiral in the U.S. an MA from King’s College informally to the attendees Navy. The Vice Chair London, and a BA from about their respective visions (International) is Brett Pep- UCLA. He previous served on for the future of the organiza- pler, currently President of the the faculty of the Air Com- tion. They followed up with Australian Institute of Profes- mand and Staff College. Dr. messages to the general mem- sional Intelligence Officers Michael Collier heads the very bership on the IAFIE listserv, (AIPIO). With over 30 years active Educational Practices given that many potential vot- experience as an intelligence Committee, after debuting ers could not attend the con- officer, mainly as a strategic earlier this year by spearhead- ference held in Washington analyst, he was appointed Dep- ing a sub-committee on educa- June 7-10. The polls closed on uty Director of Military Intelli- tional standards that presented June 23, and the votes were gence before leaving active its findings at a lively pre- tallied. duty. Upon entering academia conference workshop. Mike is as an Associate Professor at Assistant Professor of Home- Elected to the position of Charles Sturt University, Brett land Security and Homeland Chair was Dr. Joseph Gordon. developed Australia’s first fully Security Program Coordinator The New IAFIE He is a longtime member of articulated postgraduate intelli- at Eastern Kentucky Univer- the faculty at the National gence education program. sity, following an earlier stint Board of Directors: Intelligence University, occu- Currently he serves as Senior teaching national security and pying the Colin Powell Chair Analyst in the Defence Intelli- intelligence studies at AMU. as Professor for Analysis after gence Organization (DIO). He earned a PhD in Interna- Joseph Gordon previously serving as DIA sen- Elected as Secretary/Treasurer