* Understand How Intelligence Works — Learn how intelligence requirements, collection, analysis, and dissemination come together to support national security and decision-making. *Explore Intelligence Collection & Operations — Understand the major intelligence disciplines, including HUMINT, SIGINT, GEOINT, MASINT, and OSINT, and how they work together. *Think & Assess Like an Intelligence Analyst — Learn to evaluate complex information, challenge assumptions, recognize bias and deception, test competing explanations, and develop defensible judgments. *Understand Global Intelligence & Counterintelligence — Examine how major intelligence services operate, how nations compete through intelligence, and how counterintelligence protects against espionage, insider threats, and adversary operations. *Anticipate & Communicate What Matters — Develop skills in warning, forecasting, and communicating clear intelligence judgments and implications to decision-makers.

Module 1: HUMINT & Covert Action Fundamentals Enter the secretive world of human intelligence and covert operations. This module introduces how intelligence services use human relationships, clandestine activity, and carefully designed operations to collect intelligence and influence events. Students will distinguish HUMINT collection from covert action, examine the roles of intelligence officers and human sources, and explore the legal, ethical, and strategic considerations surrounding operations that governments may not publicly acknowledge. Module 2: Spotting, Assessing & Developing Human Sources How does an intelligence officer recognize that someone could become a valuable source? Students examine how potential sources are identified and assessed based on their access, motivations, reliability, vulnerabilities, and potential intelligence value. The module explores rapport building, elicitation, source development, and the psychological dynamics that shape recruitment—while also examining the risks, ethical dilemmas, and counterintelligence concerns involved. Module 3: Clandestine Tradecraft & Secure Communications Discover the tradecraft used to protect sensitive relationships and clandestine operations. Students explore cover, operational security, surveillance awareness, secure meetings, signals, dead drops, concealment concepts, compartmentation, and other traditional and modern communication methods. Historical cases demonstrate how seemingly minor mistakes can expose an operation—and how disciplined tradecraft helps protect officers, sources, and missions in an increasingly connected world. Module 4: Covert Action Techniques & Operational Design Explore how covert action is designed to influence political, informational, economic, or security conditions while concealing the sponsor’s role. Students examine instruments such as unattributed influence, political action, covert support, intermediaries, front organizations, deception, and proxy relationships. The module follows the operational lifecycle from defining the objective and selecting an approach through risk assessment, implementation, evaluation, and termination—with particular attention to exposure, escalation, unintended consequences, and blowback. Module 5: British HUMINT & Covert Action Examine the evolution of British intelligence and its global legacy. Through selected historical cases, students explore the roles of MI6, MI5, the Government Communications Headquarters, military intelligence, and specialized organizations in British intelligence operations. The module considers Britain’s traditions of human intelligence, deception, covert influence, liaison relationships, and operational subtlety—and how its imperial history and strategic culture continue to shape British intelligence practice. Module 6: Israeli HUMINT & Covert Action Explore how Israel’s security environment has shaped one of the world’s most closely studied intelligence systems. Students examine the respective roles of Mossad, Shin Bet, and Aman, along with Israel’s approaches to human intelligence, counterterrorism, deception, covert influence, liaison, and sensitive operations abroad. Historical cases illustrate how urgency, geography, national survival, technological capability, and tolerance for operational risk influence Israeli intelligence strategy. Module 7: Russian Intelligence & Covert Action Examine the Russian intelligence ecosystem and its roots in Soviet-era statecraft. Students explore the distinct functions of the SVR, FSB, and GRU/GU and how Russia combines espionage, covert influence, deception, cyber activity, proxy relationships, political warfare, and active measures in pursuit of national objectives. The module highlights continuity and change from the Soviet services to contemporary Russian operations, including the strategic use of ambiguity, disruption, and deniability. Module 8: Countermeasures—Detecting & Defeating Covert Operations Learn to analyze clandestine activity from the defender’s perspective. This culminating module examines how governments and organizations detect human-source recruitment, espionage, insider threats, covert influence, proxy networks, and operational deception. Students explore counterintelligence indicators, source validation, attribution challenges, double-agent risks, defensive investigations, and strategies for disrupting adversarial operations while strengthening institutional resilience.