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One of four men arrested on Tuesday for attempting to interfere with the telephones at the New Orleans office of Sen. Mary Landrieu previously worked for a U.S. intelligence-funded program to train would-be American spies, Declassified has learned.
Between August 2007 and October 2008, Stanley Dai served as assistant director of a program called the Intelligence Community Center of Academic Excellence at Trinity Washington University, a small Catholic college in Washington D.C., according to a school official. The official, university vice president Ann Pauley, said that the program was completely funded by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. She said the purpose of the program was to expose both undergraduates and graduate students at the university to the work of the intelligence community and to prepare them for possible careers in intelligence. As a result of the program, Pauley said, the university established a master’s degree program in intelligence and security studies. She added that the government grant funding the program ended in 2008.
Online postings indicate that in April 2008 the program held a “colloquium” on “intelligence support for the War on Terrorism” at which at least three serving intelligence officials spoke: Ted Gistaro, the top terrorism analyst on the National Intelligence Council; an official named Joe Brittain of the National Counterterrorism Center; and an unnamed representative from WINPAC, a CIA office responsible for collecting and analyzing intelligence related to weapons of mass destruction. The daylong event ended with a reception featuring recruiters from various U.S. agencies, including NSA, CIA, and the Defense Intelligence Agency. Dai’s e-mail is listed on the program as a contact point for the symposium.
Pauley said that she did not know what qualifications Dai had when he was hired to be the program’s assistant director, and she said that he left Trinity when the DNI grant that financed it ended. She said the program was entirely funded by money from the intelligence czar’s office. Other online postings, some of which are linked here indicate that Dai was a speaker at a “CIA day” last summer that was arranged by Georgetown University’s “Junior Statesmen Summer School”. This program included a field trip to the CIA, although current indications are that Dai had no relationship whatsoever with the agency and never visited its building.
A spokesman for Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair said that Dai never worked for the DNI’s office and never had any security clearance from that office. The spokesman said the intelligence czar’s office routinely supplied speakers to various university and school groups. The spokesman added that there was no indication Dai ever visited the intelligence czar’s headquarters, which are located in a Northern Virginia office complex.
Dai and three other men were arrested by the FBI on Tuesday on charges that they fraudulently attempted to enter the New Orleans office of Democratic Senator Landrieu “for the purpose of willfully and maliciously interfering with a telephone system operated and controlled by the United States of America.” The four men were reportedly released on bail. One of the four, James O’Keefe, became a hero to conservative-movement activists last year after he conducted a series of home video “stings” in which he and a female associate posed as pimp and prostitute at several offices of the left-wing community-organizing group ACORN. A lawyer for one of the men said outside the courthouse that his clients may have the product of “poor judgment” and that he didn’t intend to commit a crime; lawyers for other defendants could not immediately be reached for comment.
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Accused Louisiana Co-Conspirator Helped Run Academic Program Funded by U.S. Intelligence
Mark Hosenball/Newsweek
One of four men arrested on Tuesday for attempting to interfere with the telephones at the New Orleans office of Sen. Mary Landrieu previously worked for a U.S. intelligence-funded program to train would-be American spies, Declassified has learned.
Between August 2007 and October 2008, Stanley Dai served as assistant director of a program called the Intelligence Community Center of Academic Excellence at Trinity Washington University, a small Catholic college in Washington D.C., according to a school official. The official, university vice president Ann Pauley, said that the program was completely funded by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. She said the purpose of the program was to expose both undergraduates and graduate students at the university to the work of the intelligence community and to prepare them for possible careers in intelligence. As a result of the program, Pauley said, the university established a master’s degree program in intelligence and security studies. She added that the government grant funding the program ended in 2008.
Online postings indicate that in April 2008 the program held a “colloquium” on “intelligence support for the War on Terrorism” at which at least three serving intelligence officials spoke: Ted Gistaro, the top terrorism analyst on the National Intelligence Council; an official named Joe Brittain of the National Counterterrorism Center; and an unnamed representative from WINPAC, a CIA office responsible for collecting and analyzing intelligence related to weapons of mass destruction. The daylong event ended with a reception featuring recruiters from various U.S. agencies, including NSA, CIA, and the Defense Intelligence Agency. Dai’s e-mail is listed on the program as a contact point for the symposium.
Pauley said that she did not know what qualifications Dai had when he was hired to be the program’s assistant director, and she said that he left Trinity when the DNI grant that financed it ended. She said the program was entirely funded by money from the intelligence czar’s office. Other online postings, some of which are linked here indicate that Dai was a speaker at a “CIA day” last summer that was arranged by Georgetown University’s “Junior Statesmen Summer School”. This program included a field trip to the CIA, although current indications are that Dai had no relationship whatsoever with the agency and never visited its building.
A spokesman for Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair said that Dai never worked for the DNI’s office and never had any security clearance from that office. The spokesman said the intelligence czar’s office routinely supplied speakers to various university and school groups. The spokesman added that there was no indication Dai ever visited the intelligence czar’s headquarters, which are located in a Northern Virginia office complex.
Dai and three other men were arrested by the FBI on Tuesday on charges that they fraudulently attempted to enter the New Orleans office of Democratic Senator Landrieu “for the purpose of willfully and maliciously interfering with a telephone system operated and controlled by the United States of America.” The four men were reportedly released on bail. One of the four, James O’Keefe, became a hero to conservative-movement activists last year after he conducted a series of home video “stings” in which he and a female associate posed as pimp and prostitute at several offices of the left-wing community-organizing group ACORN. A lawyer for one of the men said outside the courthouse that his clients may have the product of “poor judgment” and that he didn’t intend to commit a crime; lawyers for other defendants could not immediately be reached for comment.