Join us for an in-person Spy Chat. This will be a timely discussion of the latest intelligence, national security, counterintelligence, and espionage issues with a very special guest. Spy Museum Executive Director Chris Costa will lead the briefing. Costa, a former intelligence officer of 34 years with 25 of those in active duty in hot spots such as Panama, Bosnia, Afghanistan, and Iraq, is also a past Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Counterterrorism on the National Security Council. He will be joined by Roman Rozhavsky, the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Assistant Director of the Counterintelligence and Espionage Division.
Rozhavsky became an FBI special agent in 2006, working counterintelligence investigations and serving as a SWAT operator in the Houston Field Office. He was then promoted to supervisory special agent and oversaw the Houston Field Office's investigations into foreign adversaries' attempts to acquire critical US technology and information. In 2018, he was named unit chief of the China Technology Transfer Unit within the Counterintelligence and Espionage Division at FBI Headquarters, where he helped lead nationwide efforts to combat the threat posed by China's theft of sensitive US information and innovation. In 2019, Rozhavsky led the formation of the National Counterintelligence Task Force. In 2021, he was selected assistant special agent in charge over the Counterintelligence and Cyber Division in the New York Field Office and in 2023, he was promoted to the Senior Executive Service as the section chief for the Global Operations Section within the FBI's Counterintelligence and Espionage Division. His most recent role before becoming Assistant Director was special agent in charge of the Counterintelligence Division in the Washington Field Office.
Following the speakers’ discussion of key issues, you’ll be able to ask questions whether you are attending online or in-person.
Assistive listening devices will be available for the in-person program.
The Spy Museum does not endorse, approve, or support the opinions stated by guest speakers. Statements made by speakers do not represent the position or opinion of the International Spy Museum.