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• Jose Rodriguez, Former Director of the CIA National Clandestine Service, Joins National Interest Security Company

  - 2008-10-07

  FAIRFAX, Va. -- National Interest Security Company, LLC, ("NISC") announced today that Jose Rodriguez, former Director of the CIA National Clandestine Service, has joined NISC as a Senior Vice President. Mr. Rodriguez will immediately bolster NISC's capabilities in helping the company's intelligence community, Department of Defense, and Department of Homeland...

  Tags: CIA, director, SECURITY, Strategy

• Top Chefs Across America Selected for New Culinary Program from The Culinary Institute of America and Hormel Foods

  - 2008-09-18

  Innovation-Focused Program Begins in October AUSTIN, Minn. -- Dennis Goettsch, vice president of marketing for the foodservice division of Hormel Foods Corporation (NYSE: HRL), and Dr. Victor Gielisse, associate vice president of The Culinary Institute of America CIA, are pleased to announce the 16 chefs selected for the inaugural...

  Tags: America, CIA, food, innovation, Leadership, Manufacturing, Strategy

• Book claims White House ordered faked letter to tie Saddam and 9/11

  - 2008-08-05

  WASHINGTON AFP — A new book by author Ron Suskind alleges that the White House ordered the CIA to fabricate a letter purportedly showing links between deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and the September 11, 2001 attacks. The book, "The Way of the World," was immediately attacked by the...

  Tags: CIA, Richard, Strategy, White House

• A new collaboration between the Culinary Institute of America Consulting Services Group and The National Food Lab

  - 2008-08-01

  A new collaboration between the Culinary Institute of America CIA Consulting Services Group and The National Food Lab The NFL combines product development and commercialization strengths to create "a unique culinary-driven concept development process."

  Tags: America, CIA, Collaboration, food, Groupware, MARKETING, NFL, SOFTWARE, Strategy

• The Culinary Institute of America and Hormel Foods Create the Culinary Enrichment and Innovation Program

  - 2008-07-09

  Program for Top Chefs is First of its Kind AUSTIN, Minn. -- Hormel Foods Corporation (NYSE: HRL) and the company's Foodservice division have announced a partnership with The Culinary Institute of America CIA to provide a unique leadership program to an elite class of commercial and non-commercial chefs from...

  Tags: CIA, Leadership, Manufacturing, Strategy

• Ruling on detainees shows terror strategy is flawed

  - 2008-06-20

  The Supreme Court decision allowing "enemy combatants" at the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to challenge their imprisonment in U.S. courts confirms that the strategy adopted in the wake of the terrorist attacks on America was flawed from the start ("Ruling maintains high court's streak on Gitmo cases,"...

  Tags: CIA, FBI, Government, strategy, terror, U.S.

• Knowledge Sharing and The CIA's Intellipedia

  BNET - 2008-06-20

  There is a worthwhile debate brewing over the value of Web 2.0 technologies such as wikis and prediction markets to improve corporate communication. Even the US Central Intelligence Agency has fired up a knowledge-sharing wiki called Intellipedia, which recently celebrated its second anniversary. According to the CIA:...

  Tags: CIA, Knowledge, Information, Intelligence Community, Wiki, Strategy, Online Communications, Management, Sean Silverthorne

• The last word

  - 2008-06-01

  [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Why Washington exposed the details of Israel's raid deep inside Syria last September, which both nations had kept secret, remains a mystery, giving Middle East specialists plenty to speculate on, while opening up a gold-mine for the region's conspiracy theorists. There seemed to be a tacit...

  Tags: CIA, Israel, Strategy, Syria

• Amnesty International: Waterboarding is Never Acceptable Regardless of the Circumstances

  - 2008-02-05

  To: NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: AIUSA Media Office, +1-202-544-0200 x302 WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Larry Cox, executive director of Amnesty International USA, issued the following remarks in response to CIA Director Michael Haydens confirmation that waterboarding was used on detainees in CIA custody: "General Haydens justification that waterboarding of...

  Tags: CIA, knowledge, Strategy, torture

• Irregular maritime strategy

  - 2008-01-01

  Sir: It was both informative and a pleasure to read Martin Murphy's "Suppression of Piracy and Maritime Terrorism" in the Summer 2007 issue of the Naval War College Review. I do want to comment on his use of the mining of Nicaraguan harbors in the mid-1980s to illustrate a...

  Tags: CIA, Government, SOFTWARE, Strategy, U.S.