Course Description

Instructor: Elizabeth Deschenes

This course will cover some of the world’s best intelligence agencies such as Israeli’s Mossad, Russia and the Soviet Union’s SVR/KGB, Germany’s Stasi/BND, France’s DSGE, UK’s MI6 and the CIA of the United States. We will explore these agencies by examining their internet sites, weekly articles and award winning TV series that will highlight historical highs and lows of global intelligence. We will be looking at the following series: Mossad 101, Fauda (meaning chaos in Arabic), The Americans, Deutschland 83, The Bureau (France) and several others. Engaging videos and reading assignments will complete this exciting course. We will have a guest speaker if schedules permit.

Our first class discussion will center around the formation of our Department of Homeland Security. It is highly suggested ( but not mandatory) that you come to class having read Dark Invasion: 1915 Germany's Secret War and the Hunt for the First Terrorist Cell in America by Howard Blum.