#OTD in 1996, FBI agent Earl Edwin Pitts was arrested for providing information to Russia on FBI personnel, ongoing investigations, counterintelligence program strategies, and operational methodology. Pitts later pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 27 years in prison.
National Counterintelligence and Security Center
Government Relations Services
Bethesda, Maryland 137,022 followers
We lead the effort to protect our nation against intelligence and security threats.
About us
The National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC) is the nation’s premier source for counterintelligence and security expertise and a trusted mission partner in protecting America against foreign and other adversarial threats. We lead and support the U.S. Government’s counterintelligence (CI) and security activities critical to protecting our nation; provide CI outreach to U.S. private sector entities at risk of foreign intelligence penetration; and issue public warnings regarding intelligence threats to the U.S.
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https://www.dni.gov/index.php/ncsc-home
External link for National Counterintelligence and Security Center
- Industry
- Government Relations Services
- Company size
- 501-1,000 employees
- Headquarters
- Bethesda, Maryland
- Type
- Government Agency
- Founded
- 2004
- Specialties
- Insider Threat, Physical Security, Personnel Security, Supply Chain Risk Management, Critical Infrastructure, Counterintelligence, Technical Security, and Know the Risk, Raise Your Shield
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4600 Sangamore Rd
Bethesda, Maryland 20816, US
Employees at National Counterintelligence and Security Center
Updates
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Don’t be a pawn. Repressive regimes have sought to use US-based persons, including private investigators, law enforcement officers, and members of diaspora communities, to surveil & target perceived critics in the US. See the bulletin from NCSC and FBI at: https://lnkd.in/ecf625Q9
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US startups are key targets of foreign threat actors looking to steal technology--posing problems for startups and their investors. NCSC's guidance can help investors improve security in their portfolio companies, thereby protecting their investments. https://lnkd.in/ecbS_bfg
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#This week in 1961, KGB officer Anatoliy Golitsyn defected to the US while in Helsinki. He provided @CIA insights into KGB operations & ID'd Georges Paques, a French national at NATO, as a Soviet spy. Paques was later convicted in France for passing French & NATO secrets to the Soviets.
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Think outside the box when it comes to #cyber. Is your company prepared to defend against other approaches used by foreign threat actors to acquire data, technology, and talent?
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#OTD 1998, nuclear physicist Peter Lee was sentenced to prison for passing secrets to China & making false statements. While working at Los Alamos National Lab, he disclosed classified info to Chinese scientists during a trip to China and lied about the trip on security forms.
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#OTD 1941, fourteen members of the 33 member Frederick Duquesne spy ring were found guilty at trial in Brooklyn, NY. All members of the WWII-era German spy ring were convicted and sentenced to a total of more than 300 years in prison.
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#This week in 1799, George Washington died of illness at his @MountVernon home. His death might have come decades earlier, greatly changing America’s history, if not for the actions of John Jay, the founding father of U.S. counterintelligence. See: https://lnkd.in/eHKqu2JK
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#OTD 1985, defense contractor Thomas Cavanagh began providing US stealth technology secrets to FBI agents posing as KGB officers, noting the info was worth “billions" and that "I feel like I can bring more documents out [but] I gotta have money, okay?" He received life in prison.
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