BRIAN J. KELLEY
Brian J. Kelley retired from the Central Intelligence Agency in 2007 following a forty-two year career which included twenty years as a United States Air Force officer. During his careers with the USAF and the CIA, Kelley was a specialist in counterintelligence, serving in both organizations as a case officer in double agent and deception operations as well as in counterespionage investigations.
He had five overseas tours as a case officer, serving in various locales in the Far East, Middle East, Latin America and in Europe. Included among the awards he received during his CIA career were the Distinguished Career Intelligence Medal awarded by the Deputy Director of CIA in November 2007; the CIA Intelligence Achievement Medal; the CIA Commendation Medal and the “CIA Collector of the Year” award presented to him by the Director of CIA.
He is currently an employee of Abraxas Corporation in McLean, Virginia and has been contracted back to CIA where he teaches in various courses to officers in the National Clandestine Service. He is currently employed as an adjunct professor, teaching graduate courses in national security for the Institute of World Politics in Washington, D.C; for Mercyhurst College in Erie, Pennsylvania which has extension courses in the Washington area; and each semester for the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University. He is also an adjunct professor the DoD’s Defense Academy for Credibility Assessment (DACA). Additionally, he teaches ongoing courses at CIA University, and provides lectures for NSA, for the DoD’s Joint Counterintelligence Academy, and the Department of State’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research. During the past two years, Kelley has spoken at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City, Cambridge University in the United Kingdom, the Department of Homeland Security, the RAND Corporation, Georgetown University, American University, George Washington University, George Mason University, St. Michael’s College, the US Naval War College and has spoken at three iterations f the annual Raleigh Spy Conference. In the past year, Mr. Kelley has been a featured speaker at the Smithsonian Museum in Washington and at the International Spy Museum, also in Washington, DC.
His most recent publications include,
“Counterintelligence Support to Law Enforcement” which was published in the
International Crime and Justice Journal in August 2007 and
“Twin Traitors: The True Stories of Jonathan Pollard and Ana Montes” which was published in the fall of 2007 by the American Intelligence Journal. His article,
“Breach: A Personal Perspective” which appeared in the March 2008 edition of CIA’s quarterly publication,
Studies in Intelligence was selected by the Studies editorial board as a merit award winner for 2008. He is finishing a book which will detail the inside story of the Robert Hanssen case.
National level stories about aspects of Kelley’s career have been featured in broadcasts by
60 Minutes, the Discovery Channel, Washington CBS Affiliate Channel 9 and in articles in the
Washingtonian,
Raleigh Metro Magazine,
The Fairfax County Times,
St. Michael’s Alumni Quarterly, as well as coverage in newspapers including the
New York Times and the
Washington Post.