Bypass Alarms

Bypass motion detectors
Physical Security capabilities

FM 34-60 Counterintelligence

Deception 101 - Primer on Deception

The author reviews the basic concepts related to “deception.” Dr. Joseph Caddell defines terms, provides historical examples, and discusses problems associated with deception. He provides a general overview, a “primer” which is not directed at those who already possess a working knowledge of deception operations. Nevertheless, given the complex and everchanging nature of deception in the political-military environment, it may serve as a useful reminder of the basic assumptions and methods concerning the subject.

FM 3-05.30 Psychological Operations

Military Geography by COL John M. Collins, US Army (Ret.)

John M. Collins has long been recognized in military and political circles as a strategist and thinker of profound depth. This, his latest offering, is the crown jewel in his intellectual diadem. His subject, military geography, is a discipline that affects everything soldiers do, every day, everywhere. All too often, it has been the difference between victory and defeat, yet no subject has been treated with more benign neglect in institutional and personal military education.

Cultural Intelligence

"Geography, tribal structure, religion, social customs, language, appetites, standards were at my finger-ends. - T.E. Lawrence

"...the value of military intelligence is exceeded by that of social and cultural intelligence. We need the ability to look, understand, and operate deeply into the fault lines of societies where, increasingly, we find the frontiers of national security."- ADM Arthur Cebrowski, USN, (Ret.), former Director of the Office of Force Transformation.

Does Culture Matter?: The Military Utility of Understanding Adversary Culture by Montgomery McFate, Joint Forces Quarterly

Military Cultural Education by COL Maxie McFarland, U.S. Army (Ret.), Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence, U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command

Through the Lens of Cultural Awareness: A Primer for US Armed Forces Deploying to Arab and Middle Eastern Countries by LTC William D. Wunderle, U.S. Army. Combat Studies Institute (CSI) Special Study

Know your Enemy: Human Intelligence Key to SOF Missions by Scott Swanson, Delphi International Research

Arab Cultural Awareness Handbook, US Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC)

A Brief Guide to Understanding Islam

University of Military Intelligence TRADOC Cultural Center: Cultural Awareness Course

Cultural Awareness and the Military: USAF Air University Links

Combined Arms Research Library (CARL), US Army Command and General Staff College Links

USMC Center for Advanced Operational Culture Learning (CAOCL)

Educing Information: Interrogation Science and Art

The Reid Technique of Interrogation

KUBARK Counterintelligence Interrogation Manual

The Master of Disguise by Antonio J. Mendez

The Master of Disguise: My Secret Life in the CIA, chronicles the cloak and dagger operations Antonio and his fellow spooks mounted against the Russians, the East German Stasi and other enemies during the Cold War.

In a real "wilderness of mirrors" Mendez used elaborate covert operations to defeat hostile surveillance, culminating in a toe-to-toe face off with the KGB using "Moscow Rules." The book is peopled with the CIA's technical officers, double agents, moles and assassins, all scrambling for the secrets that will tip the balance of power. The descriptions of cover and tradecraft used by the CIA's Office of Technical Service (OTS) are the most concise ever published.

Enemies: How America's foes steal our vital secrets - and how we let it happen by Bill Gertz

It’s the great untold story of the war on terror.Taking advantage of gaping holes in America’s defenses, terrorist organizations and enemy nations like Communist China, North Korea, Russia, and Cuba—not to mention some so-called friends—are infiltrating the U.S. government to steal our most vital secrets and use them against us. And most astonishing of all, our leaders are letting it happen.

In the explosive new book Enemies, acclaimed investigative reporter Bill Gertz uncovers the truth about this grave threat to our national security and America’s harrowing failures to address the danger. Gertz’s unrivaled access to the U.S. intelligence and defense communities allows him to tell the whole shocking story, based on previously unpublished classified documents and dozens of exclusive interviews with senior government and intelligence officials. He takes us deep inside the dark world of intelligence and counterintelligence—a world filled with lies and betrayal, spies sleeping with enemy spies, and moles burrowing within the FBI, the CIA, the Pentagon, and even the White House.

Surveillance Operations Training from SCG International

Spy Dust by Antonio Mendez, Jonna Mendez, and Bruce Henderson

For CIA staffers, the changed names will be both frustrating and challenging as they attempt to sort out individuals and operations. For those who want a sense of what really takes place in the field when magicians from the Office of Technical Services are involved, Spy Dust is a rewarding experience. - Kirkus Reviews

The Ten Commandments of Counter-Intelligence by James M. Olson

Author James M. Olson served in the CIA Directorate of Operations and is now on the faculty of the George Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University.
This article appeared in the CIA Center for the Study of Intelligence, Fall-Winter 2001

Traitors Among Us: Inside the Spy Catcher's World by Stuart Herrington

As director of the elite Foreign Counterintelligence Activity, author Stuart Herrington was the U.S. Army's top counterintelligence officer. In this thrilling and informative account he details one of the most damaging and delicate cases of espionage ever committed against the United States. Between 1972 and 1988, thousands of highly classified documents were sold to the Soviet Union and her Warsaw pact surrogates. They were secrets so sensitive that had war broken out in Central Europe, our ability to defend our NATO allies would have been seriously compromised. It was up to Herrington and his team to root out the elusive spy ring responsible for this treachery. An intriguing page-turner with more twists and turns than a spy novel, Traitors Among Us guides us through the intricate spy catcher's world of Cold War Berlin, showing us how the "game" was played when the stakes were as high as national survival.