Resource person: Audra Bullard - office@clehighlands.com

Description:

This session will trace the history of the Central Intelligence Agency and the Soviet Committee for State Security (KGB) from the 1960s to the present. Mr. Hofer, drawing from his knowledge of KGB and CIA operations, will highlight the intelligence successes and failures of both government intelligence services. He will describe in detail the creation of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) in the early 1990s, its activities, and its structure. Mr. Hofer will also describe the evolution of the CIA as it pivoted from its Cold War activities to Counterterrorism.

Thomas J. Hofer is a retired CIA and U.S Army Intelligence professional whose military and civilian career spanned nearly 40 years and 26 countries. In his final military assignment, Tom served as an instructor with the Central Intelligence Agency’s clandestine operations course. From 2004 to 2014, Tom was a clandestine operations officer with the Central Intelligence Agency, assigned to overseas and domestic areas. Fluent in Russian, Spanish, French, Italian, and Czech, he has used his language talents in assessing, recruiting, and debriefing foreign agents overseas and at home. He is also proficient in cybersecurity issues, having participated in numerous human intelligence operations domestically and overseas. He currently resides in south Tampa with his spouse, Jelena.

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