§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 counterintelligence education and training. The Director must make sure the Institute is well organized and funded to teach staff in all job areas, create special certification courses for counterintelligence workers that cover threats, insider risks, investigations, working with law enforcement, and any other needed skills, name jobs that require those certifications before hiring, and build the capacity so people from other parts of the intelligence community can take the courses. The Institute’s head must make training at different security levels, including unclassified classes, and either teach them or share the lessons with other intelligence offices. The Institute must work with the National Counterintelligence and Security Center and the Defense Intelligence Agency to create a baseline certification that matches minimum standards and aligns with the Defense Counterintelligence Agent Course of the Joint Counterintelligence Training Activity. That baseline course must be offered, when space allows, to intelligence community staff and other cleared federal employees across branches. Other federal agencies, state, local, Tribal governments, private companies, and other appropriate groups may get the courses if they have a need and the right clearance, as approved by the National Counterintelligence and Security Center after consulting the CIA.