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 Malcolm W. Nance, counterterrorism expert, policy adviser, and media commentator.
Nance, will be streaming in live from Ukraine where he joined the fight. Nance is a former career US Naval Intelligence Officer specializing in counterterrorism, intelligence, and violent extremism as advisor for the US government’s law enforcement, Homeland Security, and intelligence agencies. As an Arabic-speaking special intelligence collections operator field interrogator he provided top secret anti and counterterrorism support to national intelligence agencies while on numerous reconnaissance and combat operations in the Balkans, Middle East, and sub-Saharan Africa.
Spy Museum Advisory Board Member Nance was honored as one of the Noteworthy African-Americans in American Espionage History. He is author of The Terrorist Recognition Handbook, The Terrorists of Iraq: The Strategy and Tactics of the Iraq Insurgency, An End to al-Qaeda: Destroying Bin Laden’s Jihad, the New York Times best-seller Defeating ISIS: Who They Are, How They Fight, What They Believe, and The Plot to Destroy Democracy: How Putin and His Spies are Undermining America and Dismantling the West among other books.
Following their discussion of key issues, you’ll be able to ask questions via our online platform.
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