§3385 Benjamin Tallmadge Institute as Primary Central Intelligence Agency Entity for Education and Training in Counterintelligence

Summary

The Director of the CIA must keep the Benjamin Tallmadge Institute as the CIA’s main place for education and training about counterintelligence. The Director must make sure the Institute is well run and has the money and staff it needs to train people in all CIA jobs. The Institute must create special certification courses that teach about counterintelligence threats (including insider threats), how to run counterintelligence inquiries and investigations, how to work with federal law enforcement, and any other skills the Director says are needed. The Director must also pick which jobs need those certifications before someone fills them and build the capacity to let other intelligence community members take the courses. The Institute’s leader must make courses at different security levels, including unclassified, and either teach those courses or share the course materials with other intelligence components. With agreement from the Director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center, those courses must be offered to federal agencies outside the intelligence community, state, local, and Tribal governments, private companies, and other appropriate people who have a need and proper clearance. The Institute must also make a baseline certification course with the National Counterintelligence and Security Center and the Defense Intelligence Agency that lines up with the Defense Counterintelligence Agent Course, and offer it on a space‑available basis to intelligence community staff and other cleared federal employees in the executive, legislative, or judicial branches.