Spies, Intelligence and Deception in Global Affairs

Espionage is the second oldest profession. This course will focus on the evolution of spying from World war I to the current period of cyber-espionage. Intelligence tradecraft such as cut-outs, illegals, dead-drops, double agents and triple agents and famous spy cases will be included. The successes and failures of the US intelligence community, especially the CIA, as well as the KGB will be covered. The course will conclude with a discussion of the effects of politicization of the US intelligence community on global affairs.

Prof. Weiner is a Center Associate at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University, and brings limited firsthand experience with intelligence work from the Cold War era.