The Lecture Series has now concluded.
Many thanks to our sponsors for assisting us in the presentation of the events.
Dave D’Auria
September 17
“Solving The German Enigma: The Allied Code-Breaking That Helped Shorten and Win World War II”
Sponsored by Stuart and Jan Hart Black
5:30pm: Doors open, providing attendees a chance to use the Enigma machine
7pm: Lecture, followed by a Q & A session
In the years prior to World War II, Germany developed a new encryption machine they believed was unbreakable. In theory, the mathematics of the Enigma code could not be broken. In practice, it was. This lecture will discuss one of the greatest achievements of World War II: the Allied code-breaking work that solved the German Enigma and helped shorten and win the war. The lecture will also include a demonstration of a German Enigma encryption machine. A Q & A session will follow.
Presenter Dave D'Auria is the Acquisition Committee Chairman of the National Cryptologic Museum Foundation (NCMF) and a retired Senior Executive and former Chief of the Advanced Analytic Techniques Group (ATG) at the National Security Agency (NSA). He started his career with the USAF Security Service (USAFSS) flying electronic intelligence missions at Pleiku and Da Nang AFB in Viet Nam. His Agency career included eight years at two overseas locations; a tour of duty at the Pentagon on the OASD I&S staff; Special Assistant to the Director NSA and Executive Assistant to the NSA Chief of Staff; the Senior Operations Officer (SOO) in the National SIGINT Operations Center (NSOC); the operational leader of the Advanced Network Technologies Office; Chief of a Target Development and Exploitation Office; and, as a Production Manager for two of NSA’s most important intelligence production portfolios. Mr. D’Auria also served as the program manager for many of NSA’s most sensitive national-level programs. Two weeks after 9-11 he was reactivated by NSA and served as a senior intelligence consultant with the Operations Directorate through January 2003. He is now fully retired from the NSA.
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Oliver “Buck” Revell
November 12
“A Law Enforcement View of Terrorism”
6:30pm: Doors open (cash bar, hors d'oeuvres available)
7pm: Lecture begins with Q & A session to follow
Security threats today come not just from powerful rogue nations but also from individual terrorists with unprecedented access to weapons and information. Since 9/11, intelligence and security experts have placed a stronger emphasis on discovering their changing tactics and examining their different ideologies. Drawing on 30 years of experience with the FBI, Oliver "Buck" Revell will analyze terrorist acts of the past and discuss the challenges facing law enforcement in its response to future threats. A Q & A session will follow.
Buck Revell ended his 30-year career at the FBI as Associate Deputy Director, a position in which he oversaw all investigative, Counter-Terrorism, Counter-Intelligence and International programs. He took charge of a joint FBI/CIA operation, which led to the first overseas apprehension of a terrorist. After leaving the FBI, he served as President of the Law Enforcement Television Network before founding the Revell Group International, a network of former FBI, intelligence, and military senior officials who provide counsel for international businesses.
Mr. Revell is President of Revell Group International, Inc., Rowlett, Texas; Chairman of Visiphor Corp. of Vancouver, Canada; Senior Advisor to Synfuels International of Dallas, Texas; a director of Vance Security USA, Inc., Oakton Virginia; and a Trustee of the Center for American & International Law, Plano, Texas.
Tickets are available from the World Affairs Council of Dallas/Fort Worth for $20 for members* and $35 for non-members. Register online five or more business days before the event and receive an early bird discount of $5! Click here for information on purchasing tickets.
*Members of WAC and MNS
Jim Olson
December 3
“Spies Among Us: How America Is Losing Its Secrets”
Sponsored by
6:30pm: Doors open (cash bar, hors d'oeuvres available)
7pm: Lecture begins with Q & A session and book signing to follow
Americans are well aware of the more famous foreign espionage cases that have occurred in the United States, including the Rosenbergs, Aldrich Ames, and, most recently, Walter Myers, the State Department analyst caught passing on American secrets to the Cuban government. Backed by 25 years of experience with the CIA, Jim Olson will discuss covert political action, cyber threats to national security, and current intelligence operations of foreign spies inside our borders. A Q & A session will follow.
Professor Olson received his law degree from the University of Iowa in 1969. He is a Senior Lecturer at the Bush School, where he teaches courses on intelligence, national security, and international crisis management. He served for over 25 years in the Directorate of Operations of the Central Intelligence Agency, mostly overseas in clandestine operations. In addition to several foreign assignments, he was Chief of Counterintelligence at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. Olson has been awarded the Intelligence Medal of Merit, the Distinguished Career Intelligence Medal, the Donovan Award, and several Distinguished Service Citations. He is the recipient of awards from the Bush School and the Association of Former Students for excellence in teaching. He is also the author of Fair Play: The Moral Dilemmas of Spying, published by Potomac Books in 2006. Olson is currently CIA-Officer-in-Residence and Director of the Certificate in Advanced International Affairs Program, Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University.
Tickets are available from the World Affairs Council of Dallas/Fort Worth for $20 for members* and $35 for non-members. Register online five or more business days before the event and receive an early bird discount of $5! Click here for information on purchasing tickets.
*Members of WAC and MNS
The Science of Spying, an exhibition from 
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