§3385 Benjamin Tallmadge Institute as primary Central Intelligence Agency entity for education and training in counterintelligence

Summary

The CIA Director must keep the Benjamin Tallmadge Institute as the agency’s main center for teaching and training about all parts of counterintelligence. The Director must organize and fund the Institute so it can train staff across every CIA career field and give special certifications to counterintelligence personnel. The Institute must create certification courses that teach about counterintelligence and insider threats, how to run and support counterintelligence investigations, skills for working with federal law enforcement, and any other skills the Director finds necessary. The Director must also name which jobs require those certifications before someone fills them and build the capacity to let other intelligence agencies take Institute courses. The Institute’s leader must make courses at different security levels, including unclassified classes, and teach them or share the materials with other intelligence components. With the Director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center (in consultation with the CIA Director), those courses can be offered to federal agencies outside the intelligence community, state, local, and Tribal governments, private companies, and others who need them and have the proper clearance. The Institute must work with the National Counterintelligence and Security Center and the Defense Intelligence Agency to create a baseline certification that lines up with the Defense Counterintelligence Agent Course of the Joint Counterintelligence Training Activity, and that baseline course must be available, on a space-available basis, to intelligence community staff and cleared federal personnel.