Associates
DGMA Associates are retired and former intelligence officers from the FBI, CIA, Department of State, Department of Justice, Department of Defense, US Army, as well as intelligence historians/authors and Middle East/Terrorism experts and authors. They are counterintelligence, intelligence, counterterrorism and security experts who have years of experience and study in these disciplines.
Our Associates are available for speaking engagements as part of our Intelligence Speakers Bureau. Please Contact Us for more information.
PRINCIPALS OF THE COMPANY
David Major, President
First Director of Counterintelligence, Intelligence and Security Programs at the National Security Council at the White House. Senior FBI Supervisory Special Agent. Retired after 24 years with the FBI in the discipline of counterintelligence. Major is also a core professor.
Connie Huff Allen, Vice President for Training and Education
Senior Instructor and Counterintelligence Special Agent in the US Army. Retired with 25 years in the US Army. Allen is also a core professor.
BOARD OF ADVISORS
In Alphabetical Order
Eric Major
President and CEO of K2M, a Virginia-based, multi-million dollar Biotechnology Company he co-founded which develops and commercializes next-generation technologies designed to help treat spinal deformities. He previously was the President and CEO of American OsteoMedix, another company he co-founded. Major is a regular guest lecturer to Business programs at Columbia, James Madison University and Penn State University on the topic of entrepreneurship and strategic business development.
John L. Martin, Esq.
Chief of Internal Security for the US Justice Department. Supervised the successful prosecutions of 76 accused spies. The spy cases included the indictments of the first CIA officer and the first FBI agent for spying on behalf of Russia and the first cases ever brought against US citizens for spying on behalf of China and Israel. In 1985/86, he obtained the release of 30 political prisoners and their families from the Soviet Union and Eastern bloc countries, including Russian dissident Anatoli Shcharansky. Retired with 26 years with the Justice Department.
Raymond A. Mislock
Served as a senior counterintelligence executive in the FBI, including Director of Counterintelligence, Intelligence and Security Programs at the National Security Council at the White House. Following a 25 year Bureau career, he served as the Director of CIA Security and Special Assistant to the DCI for Security Policy. He is currently Director of Corporate Security for the DuPont Company and a Board Member and current President of the International Security Management Association.
E. Alan Platt
Served 25 years with the CIA as an operations officer, chief of station and senior CIA executive. He was the Deputy Chief of the CIA’s Counterintelligence Center during the investigation and arrest of the spy Jim Nicholson, and he oversaw the enhancement of the counterintelligence program at the CIA. Platt is currently with SCITOR Corporation.
Jack C. Platt
Served 25 years in the CIA as an operations officer with extensive information collection and counterintelligence background in a variety of assignments overseas and was awarded the CIA’s Career Intelligence Medal. He directed a CIA training program which prepared Agency officers and their families to live and work productively in hostile countries. Platt is the Vice President of Hamilton Trading Group which provides instruction on surveillance, surveillance detection, and counterterrorism measures to the government and private sector.
Michael J. Waguespack
Served as a senior counterintelligence executive in the FBI, including Director of Counterintelligence, Intelligence and Security Programs at the National Security Council at the White House, the first Director of the National Counterintelligence Center, and the Director of Counterintelligence at the Department of Energy.
INSTRUCTORS and GUEST SPEAKERS
In Alphabetical Order
Dr. Susan Adams
Retired FBI Supervisory Special Agent and counterintelligence training expert. Served 21 years with the Bureau.
Bart Bechtel
Extensive career as CIA operations and counterintelligence officer.
Robert Booth
30-year career as a professional security and counterintelligence officer at the US Department of State. Served as Deputy Director of Counterintelligence.
Dr. David Charney
Psychiatrist who has worked with convicted spies Brian Regan, Earl Pitts and Robert Hanssen when they were in prison.
Stephen Coughlin
Attorney, specialist on Islamic doctrines, Sharia law and its implications for the West.
Nonie Darwish
Author and speaker on the Jihadist threat. Wrote Now They Call Me Infidel: Why I Renounced Jihad for America, Israel, and the War on Terror. Father was an Egyptian intelligence officer who created the Fedayeen and became a shahid.
Peter Earnest
Senior CIA officer. Retired after a 35 year career in operations and senior CIA management. Executive Director of the International Spy Museum.
Dr. Tawfik Hamid
Former member of the extremist Islamic group Jamma’a Islameia, current Islamic thinker and reformer. Author of "The Roots of Jihad" and "Inside Jihad".
Noel Jones
Retired US Army military intelligence officer who specialized in strategic offensive counterintelligence operations.
Tony Jordan
Senior Intelligence Service officer in the CIA. Served in the Agency for 26 years including positions as Deputy Director, Office of Technical Services in the DS&T and Deputy Chief, Counterintelligence Center in the DO.
Oleg Kalugin
Retired KGB Major General. Served as Chief of the KGB's Foreign Counterintelligence
Clare Lopez
Retired senior CIA Operations Officer. Served in the Agency for 20 years, including in Latin America
John L. Martin, Esq.
Chief of Internal Security for the US Justice Department. Supervised the prosecutions of 76 accused spies. Retired with 26 years with the Justice Department.
H. Keith Melton
Renowned military historian, author and expert on clandestine devices and equipment.
Jonna Mendez
CIA officer in the Office of Technical Services/DS&T, served as CIA Chief of Disguise. Retired after 25 years in the CIA.
Tony Mendez
Senior CIA officer. Served as Chief of Disguise in the Office of Technical Services/DS&T. Retired after 25 years in the CIA.
Dr. Walid Phares
Author of Future Jihad: Terrorist Strategies Against America and The War of Ideas: Jihadism Against Democracy. Senior Fellow and the director for Future Terrorism Project at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies in Washington. Also teaches at the National Defense University.
Dr. Jack Schafer
Retired FBI Special Agent assigned to FBI's National Security Behavioral Analysis Program. Author of numerous books and articles.
Brian Weidner
Recently retired FBI Supervisory Special Agent having 22 years of field experience conducting and supervising Counterterrorism and Counterintelligence Investigations targeting Middle Eastern State Sponsors of Terrorism, Islamic Inspired Middle Eastern Terrorist Groups and Non-Traditional Terrorist and Intelligence targets. Trained and has served as a bomb technician and hostage negotiator.
Nigel West
Historian and author of numerous books on intelligence