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Past Event
Seminar

Soulcatcher: How the CIA Recruits Assets

RSVP Required Harvard Faculty, Fellows, Staff, and Students

The Intelligence Project will host a lunch with James C. Lawler, Former CIA Senior Intelligence Case Officer, from 12:00-1:15pm in the One Brattle 350 conference room. Rolf  Mowatt-Larssen will moderate. 

Lunch will be provided on a first come, first served basis. Please RSVP.

Date: Time: - Location: Room 350
James C. Lawler

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Please join the Intelligence Project for a lunch seminar with James C. Lawler who will share a series of vignettes on how intelligence officers recruit human assets; i.e. spies. 

James C. Lawler was a member of CIA's Senior Intelligence Service (SIS-3) from 1998 until his retirement in 2005.  He spent well over half of his CIA career battling the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.  As Chief of the A.Q. Khan Nuclear Takedown Team, Mr. Lawler was the recipient of one of the CIA's Trailblazer Awards in 2007, marking the 60th anniversary of CIA.  He also received the Director's Award from DCI George Tenet, the U.S. Intelligence Community's HUMINT Collector of the Year Award, and the Donovan Award from the CIA's Deputy Director of Operations.

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