Distinguished Speaker Program
The Coast Guard Academy has been privileged to host a number of guest lecturers who are notable experts in the field of intelligence and national security; such as:
- Mr. Charles Duelfer, former Special Advisor to the Director of Central Intelligence for Iraq WMD, (led Iraq Survey Group that conducted the investigation of the scope of Iraq's WMD)
- Admiral James Loy, USCG (ret.), Former Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard, first Tyler Leadership Chair at the Coast Guard Academy and current member of the Cohen Group
- Bruce Hoffman, RAND Senior Counterterrorism Analyst and author of Inside Terrorism
- Nigel West, former member of British Parliament and world renown author on Intelligence History and Espionage
- Mr. George Tenet, former Director of Central Intelligence
In addition, in academic years 2009-2012 the Distinguished Speaker Series has hosted:
- Special Agent David Britten, FBI, Senior Case Agent Lackawanna Six Terrorism Investigation
- Dr. Nicholas Dujmovic, CIA Historian and 1980 Graduate of the CGA
- LCDR Tyler Harrison, Defense Attaché to Jamaica
- CDR A. Reese Madsen, USCG (ret.) DoD Intelligence Chief Learning Officer
- Mr. Robert Irvine, Director, Coast Guard Counterintelligence Service
- CAPT Ivan Luke, USCG (ret.), current faculty at the Naval War College
- Mr. Bill Parquette, Foreign Denial and Deception Committee, National Intelligence Council, Chairman Education and Training
- Dr./Col. Bill Spracher, USA (ret.), former DIA/NDIC faculty member and Editor of the American Intelligence Journal
- Dr. Joseph DiRenzo, Coast Guard Atlantic Area (LANT-73)
- LCDR Logan Medica and LT Lance Tinstman, Coast Guard Representatives to the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC)
- Mr. Stephen Shaw and Dr. Gerry Carroon, members of the Nathan Hale Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution and the Society of the Cincinnati