About the Contributors
From the Intelligence Community
In addition to my distinguished coauthors of previous human behavior books, Gregory Hartley (How to Spot a Liar) and James O. Pyle (Find Out Anything From Anyone, Anytime), the following intelligence professionals contributed meaningful content and essential background information to this book:
Elizabeth Bancroft serves as executive director of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers (AFIO). Previously, she was director of the National Intelligence Book Center, Washington, D.C., and served as managing editor of Surveillant, a bi-monthly intelligence publications review. A graduate of Harvard/Radcliffe, she is editor of AFIO’s Intelligencer journal, as well as a computer specialist on text indexing/retrieval, bibliographic databases, and publishing. She served on the board of the National Intelligence Study Center and as vice president of the National Historical Intelligence Museum, and was an advisor to AFIO’s board prior to being hired as management.
Ray Decker’s career in military intelligence encompassed service in the European theater and, most recently, in Iraq and Afghanistan, where he held key liaison roles with the U.S. Marine Corps. He was responsible for the planning and execution of two national elections in Al Anbar province, Iraq (2005-2006), which were pivotal in supporting the establishment of a democratic government in Iraq. In Afghanistan, he was the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigades’s senior operations liaison officer to the Italian-Spanish Combat Brigade in Herat (2009-2011). A graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, he retired from the Marine Corps Reserve as a lieutenant colonel after 30 years of combined duty in operational and staff assignments stateside and abroad. His subsequent civilian career included serving as federal senior executive responsible for Combating Terrorism Assessments at the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) before and after the attacks of September 11, 2001. His current role is managing director of ArgenRM, which advises clients on risk-influenced decision-making; collection and analysis of environmental intelligence; and strategic planning and operational execution.
Jack Devine is a 32-year veteran of the CIA, where he served as both acting director and associate director of the CIAs operations outside the United States. In this capacity, he had supervisory authority over thousands of CIA employees involved in sensitive missions throughout the world. He held numerous other senior positions at the CIA, such as chief of the Latin American Division and head of the Counternarcotics Center, which was responsible for coordinating and building close cooperation between all major U.S. and foreign law enforcement agencies in tracking worldwide narcotics and crime organizations in the 1980s. Devine also headed the CIAs Afghan Task Force, which successfully countered Soviet aggression in the region. He was awarded the CIAs Meritorious Officer Award for this accomplishment. Devine is the recipient of the Agency’s Distinguished Intelligence Medal and several meritorious awards. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a board member of the CIA Memorial Foundation, and the author of Good Hunting. Devine is a founding partner and president of The Arkin Group, based in New York City.
E. Peter Earnest is executive director of the International Spy Museum and a 36-year veteran of the CIA, with a career that included more than 20 years in the Agency’s Clandestine Service. A member of the CIA’s Senior Intelligence Service, he was awarded the Agency’s Intelligence Medal of Merit for superior performance throughout his career. He also served as the Agency’s principal spokesman in his final posting, developing and implementing a strategy of greater openness with the media and the public. Earnest is coauthor with Maryann Karinch of Business Confidential: Lessons for Corporate Success From Inside the CIA, Harry Potter and the Art of Spying (coauthor Lynn Boughey), and The Dictionary of Espionage (coauthor Joseph Goulden).
Gary Harter has more than 30 years of experience with the FBI, with expertise in varied disciplines. Security stops in his post-bureau career include BearingPoint, where he served as a member of the IT Security Team. He assisted in investigations involving attempted intrusion incidents as well as integrity investigations, among other responsibilities. Upon leaving BearingPoint, Gary was hired by Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) as a member of their security team. While at CSC, he assisted in forming the Dulles Area Information Sharing and Analysis Centers (ISAC), a local security organization. He currently serves as industry co-chair for the ISAC.
Oleg Danilovich Kalugin, KGB, is a retired major general in the 1st Chief Directorate of the KGB. General Kalugin was the youngest general in the history of the KGB. Early in his 32-year career, he worked undercover as a journalist while attending New York’s Columbia University, and then conducted espionage and influence operations as a Radio Moscow correspondent with the United Nations. General Kalugin played a major role in the John Walker spy ring as deputy chief of the KGB station at the Soviet Embassy in Washington, D.C. He was also an elected member of the Soviet parliament during Gorbachev’s administration and was one of the first reformers of the KGB. His book, Spymaster: My Thirty-Two Years in Intelligence and Espionage Against the West, chronicles his KGB career. He is currently a professor at The Centre for Counter intelligence and Security Studies in Alexandria, Virginia.
Eric B. Maddox is best known as the interrogator who conducted more than 300 interrogations and collected the intelligence that directly led to the capture of Saddam Hussein. He is a recipient of the National Intelligence Medal of Achievement, Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) Director’s Award, Legion of Merit, and Bronze Star, for his direct role in the capture of the former dictator. During 2004-2014, Maddox served in the federal government civil service, as an Intelligence Officer and Interrogator for the Department of Defense (DoD). He is the author of Mission: Black List #1, a factual and dramatic narrative about the hunt for Saddam Hussein. Maddox now serves as a security consultant for corporations, organizations, and individuals, in the areas of national security, interrogations/questioning, intelligence, site assessments, personal assessments, and extensive background investigation.
David G. Major is a retired FBI executive/supervisory special agent. During his 24-year FBI career specializing in all phases of counterintelligence, the first FBI official to be assigned as a staff officer on the National Security Council where he served as the director of Intelligence and Counterintelligence Programs during the Reagan administration. Major is founder and owner of the Centre for Counterintelligence and Security Studies (Cicentre.com) and president of DGMA, Inc. since 1997, teaching advance CI and CT courses for the U.S. national security community and private sector. He developed and manages SPYPEDIA®, the world’s largest subscription database on espionage, terrorism, and cybersecurity, updated daily with CI/CT news and articles. Major serves as a founding and current member of the International Spy Museum’s board of directors. He has 40-plus years as a counterintelligence practitioner and is a recognized leading authority and expert on counterintelligence/security and counterterrorism. Major is a graduate of Syracuse University and served as a U.S. Army Captain.
Michael T. Reilly, whose military duties included special agent in the Coast Guard Investigative Service (CGIS), is currently deputy chief in the Fairfax, Virginia, County Office of the Fire Marshall. With a population exceeding one million, his jurisdiction is the most populous in both Virginia and the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. Reilly’s expertise in his current position is rooted in his work in hazardous materials, investigative services, fire prevention, and environmental crimes. He maintains a rank of chief warrant officer, United States Coast Guard Reserves. He is a member of the National Fire Protection Association, National Association of Fire Investigators, International Association of Arson Investigators, the State Fire Chief’s Association of Virginia, International Association of Firefighters Local 2068, and the Fairfax County Fire Officers Association.
Lena Sisco is a former Department of Defense (DoD)-certified military interrogator and naval officer who served in the Global War on Terror. She is the recipient of the Joint Service and the Navy/Marine Corp Commendation and Achievement Medals. Sisco has extensive experience in the field of human intelligence (HUMINT), has worked for the Office of Naval Intelligence and Defense Intelligence Agency, and partnered with the FBI and the Naval Criminal Investigative Service in HUMINT Collection Activities. She has been training DoD personnel in interrogation, tactical questioning/debriefing, site exploitation, elicitation, counter-elicitation, cross-cultural communications, HUMINT policy, detecting deception, and behavioral congruency for more than 10 years. In addition to instructing, Sisco has developed courses and training curriculums and is Instructional Systems Design certified. Sisco is certified as a Body Language Institute Train-the-Trainer Instructor and instructs with Janine Driver. In addition, she is Six Sigma certified. Prior to her career in HUMINT, she received her master’s degree in archaeology from Brown University and excavated overseas. She founded The Congruency Group in order to share her skills with DoD and law enforcement personnel and the private sector in order for individuals to achieve ultimate success in their personal and professional endeavors, put criminals behind bars, and gather intelligence information to save lives.