A conference on analytical best practices is currently underway in the wonderful town of Dungarvan, located in Co. Waterford, Ireland. Organized by the Mercyhurst College Institute of Intelligence Studies in Erie, PA the conference seeks to examine analytical best practices across a variety of fields and, hopefully, come to understand how these best practices may be applied to [...]
The International Spy Museum
Let me begin this entry by writing that I really, really wanted to like this museum because not only is it a fabulous idea, but I believe the history of intelligence to be extremely important to our understanding of the geopolitical, political, and cultural history of America. That being said, the museum, sadly, is a [...]
Maureen Baginski
Maureen Baginski is a distinguished member of this Agent’s favorite tribe of dames: cryptologists. After a long and successful career at the NSA, Baginski left to take on the world of domestic intelligence clean-up at the FBI as the first Executive Assistant Director of Intelligence. Baginski (1953-), who graduated from college with degrees in Slavic [...]
Gertrude Bell
Gertrude Bell (1868-1926 ) was one rip-roaring, bad-ass skirt. An academic, travel writer, explorer, cultural anthropologist, diplomat and spy, this broad can reasonably claim to be the founder of modern day Iraq. Bell, daughter of a famous industrialist and clearly born into a life of British privilege, first gains props for being the first woman [...]
