"Intelligence Ethics" with Dr. Michael Andregg

Dr. Andregg is a specialist on the causes of war and intelligence studies for the justice and peace studies program at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, MN.  He has also taught as an adjunct at the University of Minnesota for 30 years, designing courses for the graduate school on global problems related to war.  During his visit to Lake Fellowship he will focus on the Sisyphean effort to develop codes of ethics for professional spies.  Along that rocky road he wrote the chapters on “ethics for intelligence professionals” for both British and American textbooks used in schools of intelligence today, and edited a similar reader in 2007 used here by the CIA and DIA among others.  Institutional resistance to ethics in that domain is profound, so his next effort is chairing an international panel on whether intelligence bureaucracies fear ethics, as professors at the National Intelligence University and FBI have claimed.