Join us for an online discussion of the latest intelligence, national security, and terrorism issues in the news. 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 Kieran Ramsey, Chief Investigative Officer of Global Reach, an organization dedicated to bringing Americans home.
Ramsey joined Global Reach after a 32-year career in federal law enforcement and the US intelligence community. He most recently served as an Assistant Director, FBI, and their Senior Representative to a US intelligence community agency. This assignment required he ensure intelligence community capabilities and authorities were fully integrated across the entire range of national security threats: counterterrorism, counterespionage, cyber, hostage situations, and transnational organized crime. He previously served as the third Director of the US government’s Hostage Recovery Fusion Cell. His other positions across his lengthy career include multiple domestic office postings, as well as cross-cultural assignments as a diplomat, and the senior FBI official in US embassies in the Middle East, Africa, and Europe. His other assignments ranged from the Regime Crimes Task Force in Iraq in 2004 to navigating FBI’s support to local law enforcement during the period of civil unrest in Portland, Oregon in 2020. He also led one of the FBI’s Evidence Response Teams in New York in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Ramsey has been honored across his career for a variety of investigations including the United States Attorney General’s Award for Distinguished Service, the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association Award, the International Chiefs of Police Award, and the International Narcotics Officer Association Award.
Following their discussion of key issues, you’ll be able to ask questions via our online platform.
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