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Rusty Capps
Mr. Rusty Capps is one of the country's leading instructors and advocates for counterterrorism, counterintelligence and security awareness education, Mr. Capps is sought after by academic, public and private sector organizations to provide insight on issues relating to our national security. He is an accomplished educator who imparts passion for these topics and impresses upon students the importance they bear on our national security and foreign policy. He has extraordinary knowledge of cases and events relating to counterterrorism and counterintelligence and is able to speak on numerous different topics, many which are taken directly from his past experiences as an FBI agent.
Most recently, in September 2009, Mr. Capps organized Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence Training Partners LLC. This company will bring together a number of noted experts in these professions to once again provide strategic and tactical training to a broad cross section of the counterintelligence, counterterror, law enforcement and security communities.
In July 2007 Mr. Capps stood up The Rockbridge Group, LLC. As president of this company, he continues to work with private sector companies and government agencies as a consultant, trainer and producer of counterterrorism and counterintelligence awareness and educational products.
From October 2006 to June 2007, Mr. Capps was employed by TKC Communications Corporation and inserted full-time into the Department of Energy’s Counterintelligence Directorate as a Senior Functional Analyst. In this capacity he developed and delivered counterterrorism and counterintelligence training to DOE personnel.
From March 1997 until May 2006, Mr. Capps was President of the Centre for Counterintelligence and Security Studies. As CCISS president, he was responsible for administrative and operational functions as well as the preparation and delivery of the various educational products that the Centre provided. He has created and delivered a variety of counterterrorism and counterintelligence courses for government agencies, private sector companies and university graduate and undergraduate programs. Among the many subjects he has taught are recruitment; elicitation; double agent operations; denial and deception operations in WWII and Vietnam; counterterrorism and counterintelligence history, tactics and strategy; the evolution of terror; and the history of al Qaeda.
From September 1996 until March 1997, Mr. Capps was on the faculty of the National Intellectual Property Law Institute. As a professor of National Security Affairs, he was responsible for the presentation of courses and lectures on intelligence countermeasures and security topics.
Mr. Capps retired as an FBI Supervisory Special Agent in 1995 after 21 years with the Bureau. His first field investigative assignment as an FBI Special Agent was in the San Francisco Division from 1974-1978. There, he worked on the Patty Hearst case, bank robberies, thefts from interstate shipments, and other criminal violations. In 1978, he was transferred to the Los Angeles Division and worked undercover for two years in the Foreign Counterintelligence Program. In 1980, he was an investigator assigned to the Bell-Zacharski espionage case. In 1981, Mr. Capps began working counterterrorism cases and specialized in Iranian and Armenian terrorist groups. In 1984, he managed the Anti-Terrorist Operations Center during the Los Angeles Olympics and oversaw the activities of 300 analysts, investigators and surveillance personnel.
Selected by the FBI in 1990 to be the first national manager of the Development of Espionage and Counterintelligence Awareness (DECA) program, Mr. Capps was assigned to FBIHQ and directed the activities of 56 field office coordinators, produced videos, wrote numerous articles, and briefed members of Congress, their staff, government contractors and private organizations. In 1994 he was assigned to manage the private sector outreach program at the newly created National Counterintelligence Center (NACIC), which was staffed with counterintelligence experts from across the US Intelligence Community.
Mr. Capps served on active duty as a Regular Army officer for seven years. His highest military grade was Major and his significant assignments included: an Aide-de-Camp to a Major General, command of an infantry company during the Vietnam War and executive officer of the 1/3 Infantry, The Old Guard. While serving in Vietnam, Captain Capps received 21 awards and decorations, including the Bronze Star and the Army Commendation medals for Valor.
Mr. Capps majored in History and earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Arizona in 1965, a master's degree in International Business from the American Graduate School of International Management in Glendale, Arizona in 1971, and completed all course work for a master's in Psychology from California State University at Dominguez Hills in 1984. His FBI teaching experience includes appointment as an FBI Police Instructor in 1982, assignment to the staff of the Counterintelligence Training Unit at FBIHQ in 1990, and instruction at the FBI Academy at Quantico Virginia. He has taught graduate students as an Adjunct Professor for Boston University at the Institute of World Politics in Washington, DC, beginning in 1996 and as an Associate Professor at George Washington University in 2003. Mr. Capps has also taught undergraduate classes at the United States Military Academy at West Point, the University of Maryland, and Flagler College in St Augustine, Florida.
While a Special Agent in the FBI, he completed courses in counterintelligence, espionage investigation, undercover operations, international terrorism investigations, police training instructor, hostage negotiations, media relations, the US Air Force Soviet Studies course, the State Department Foreign Service Institute and the Dale Carnegie course.
Mr. Capps has been interviewed by national and international media including major newspapers, TV networks, radio stations, magazines and documentary programs on counterintelligence, counterterrorism and security matters. He has also spoken to numerous educational, service and public audiences including the 2005 Flagler College Forum held in St. Augustine, Florida.
Mr. Capps is married, the father of three children, a member of the Society of Former Special Agents of the FBI, and the Military Officers Association of America.
