Center for Intelligence and Security Studies

06/27/2016

We're very excited to have two of our recently graduated students, Katie Johnston and Katie Sevin, present a class project at the State Department in Washington DC today. The project was part of an international competition where our students, in a semester-long class led by Bryan McCloskey (FBI), designed a website to encourage better understanding of Islam in an effort to counter radicalism. The website, openmiss.org, was built in association with the UM Muslim Student Association. Congratulations to our students for the deserved recognition and for their hard work.

12/07/2015

Excerpt from the presentation “Russian Foreign Policy in the Middle East in the Next Five Years,” given at the Five Eyes Conference in Ottawa, Canada, October 2015. Some information has been added to update the analysis since the conference. Will Domestic Issues Limit the Reach of Russian Foreign Policy? By: Katie Johnston A country’s foreign policy is shaped and influenced by many factors. [ 916 more words. ]

http://cissblog.org/will-domestic-issues-limit-the-reach-of-russian-foreign-policy/

10/06/2015

This week we will be featuring several students' ideas from the Introduction to Intelligence and Security Studies Course. The question posed is: In the long run, have covert activities conducted by the civilian intelligence community helped or hurt U.S. interests? Today, Nick Zelinsky is featured. Clandestine Operations in themselves are enigmas, mysteries that are hard to speculate on and even harder to scrutinize post- operation. [ 1977 more words. ]

http://cissblog.org/the-virtue-of-covert-actions-in-u-s-history/

This week we will be featuring several students’ ideas from the Introduction to Intelligence and Security Studies Course. The question posed is: In the long run, have covert activities conducted by the civilian intelligence community helped or hurt U.S. interests? Today, Nick Zelinsky is featured. C…

03/28/2015

Congratulations to our very own Melissa Graves, University of Mississippi's Staff member of the Month in March 2015! In the q&a, Melissa gives a shout-out to this year's gargantuan "Days of Intrigue," our 'national-scale' intelligence exercise.

Melissa Graves, associate director and instructor at the Center for Intelligence and Security Studies, has been selected as Staff Council's Staff Member of th

03/08/2015

Quick using intel-grade software to analyze http://wp.me/p3Zisg-jh

One of our classes this semester contains a case study of the Hae Min Lee murder case described in SERIAL. SERIAL, a spin-off podcast from This American Life, has everything you could want in a complicated case: timelines, locations, conflicting viewpoints, throngs of characters, and mountains of facts that may or may not, together, contain the truth of what happened in Baltimore, 1999.

02/10/2015

Credibility: A Briefer’s Top Asset http://wp.me/p3Zisg-jb

Unless you’ve been living under a metaphorical rock lately you’ve probably heard that NBC’s Nightly News anchor, Brian Williams, has been accused of embellishing personal accounts of news stories he has covered over the years. In particular, Williams’ retelling of an attack on a military helicopter he was traveling in, while reporting on the Iraq war in 2003, has been called into question by the crew of the 159th Aviation Regiment Chinook that was actually downed by rocket fire. [ 349 more words. ]

01/23/2015

Cupcakes are in the student lounge! First come, first serve!

01/01/2015

Applications are now open! Are you interested in a career in the United States Intelligence Community? University of Mississippi students can now apply for entry into our 2015 cohort. Application period: Jan 1-Feb 8, 2015. LINK: http://ciss.olemiss.edu/2015-application/

11/09/2014

The Center for Intelligence and Security Studies has become the FIRST program certified by the International Association for Intelligence Education. We'd like to thank our students, faculty, and staff for making us stand out, world wide! http://ciss.olemiss.edu

11/08/2014

To make the week even greater; the International Association for Intelligence Education, the professional organization for Intelligence Studies, certified our program as meeting its rigorous standards. We are the first and, to date, ONLY program to achieve that certification!

11/07/2014

This week, CISS funded 16 students to visit Washington, DC. Students visited the Capitol, the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, FBI Headquarters, and Interpol. They also attended the Five Eyes Analytic Workshop hosted by the DIA, where they presented their research about the Horn of Africa. What a great week!