PETE LAPP IN THE NEWS
With over 20 years experience in counterintelligence and insider threat, Pete Lapp helps departments, agencies, and companies mature their security awareness training, insider risk programs, and investigative capabilities. Pete brings extensive experience in public speaking, training, and media engagement to your organization.
– Pete Lapp offers his insights to Washington Post’s Devlin Barret –
Recruitment ad hits social media feeds of mobile phones located outside or inside the diplomatic compound
The FBI is trying a novel strategy to recruit Russian-speaking individuals upset about the country’s invasion of Ukraine: aiming social media ads at cellphones located inside or just outside the Russian Embassy in Washington.
The FBI is sending social media ads targeted to phones at the Russian Embassy in Washington, seeking to use Russian President Vladimir Putin’s own words to generate new intelligence sources. (FBI/Facebook)
“Russian counterintelligence officers are currently in an all-hands-on-deck mode to make sure their folks don’t stray, and that they are keeping an eye on their own officers to make sure that no one goes rogue,” Lapp said. “This will probably cause those folks to work even harder than they are already working, and they may end up chasing ghosts, things that aren’t there, and spend time doing this. That in and of itself is a counterintelligence success for the FBI.”
Article excerpt taken from: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/03/23/fbi-russia-spy-recruiting-ukraine/
Pete Lapp speaks with his FBI colleague John Quattrocki (an AFIO Board Member) about DIA Intelligence Analyst Ana Belén Montes, a Cuba expert, who was spying for Cuban Intelligence, caught, and pled guilty in 2002. She was sentenced to 25-years.
The FBI’s Protected Voices initiative provides cybersecurity recommendations to political campaigns on multiple topics, including supply chain, to help mitigate the risk of cyber influence operations targeting U.S. elections. For more information, visit fbi.gov/protectedvoices.
Ana Belén Montes (born February 28, 1957) is a former American senior analyst at the Defense Intelligence Agency in the United States and a convicted spy. On September 21, 2001, she was arrested and subsequently charged with conspiracy to commit espionage for the government of Cuba. Montes eventually pleaded guilty to spying and in October 2002, was sentenced to a 25-year prison term followed by five years’ probation.
