Thursdays 2:30-4:30 PM
September 30 through November 18, 2004
D.O.C. House
This course will provide an historical and critical examination of U.S. intelligence activities and institutions, including their successes, failures, excesses and importance to national security. The course will briefly review the contributions and use of intelligence from the American Revolution to the end of World War II and focus on the growth, promise and problems of the "Intelligence Community" from 1946 to the present. Special attention will be paid to oversight of intelligence activities and possible new directions for intelligence resulting from the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission and the recently formed Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction. The course methodology will be a combination of lecture format and group discussion.
Class is limited to 20 participants
BILL SULLIVAN served for thirty-six years as an intelligence analyst, linguist and senior executive manager with the National Security Agency. Part of that career in intelligence included detached service tours with the Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Policy and as Chairman of the DCI's Signals Intelligence Committee and assignment as the Chief of the NSA Office of Legislative Affairs. Following retirement he served as a Professional Staff Officer on the Commission on the Roles and Capabilities of the U.S. Intelligence Community. Bill graduated from Tufts University with a major in German and a minor in European History.
