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Kenneth L. Stiles

Instructor
Ken Stiles
239 Wallace Hall (0115)
295 West Campus Drive
Blacksburg, VA
24061

I bring 29 years of CIA expertise and experience into the classroom to teach students from my participation in real world events.

Areas of Expertise:

  • Intelligence
  • National Security
  • Counter Terrorism
  • GIS/Remote Sending in the Intelligence Community
  • Global Conflict Drivers

Education:

  • M.A. - Old Dominion University
  • B.A. - Randolph-Macon College
  • The Geography of Global Conflict (GEOG 2034)
  • The CIA in Today’s Geopolitical World (GEOG 3034)
  • SS: The Intelligence Community (GEOG 4984)
  • My role in the CIA’s fight against al Qaeda after 9/11 is chronicled in Henry Crumpton’s The Art of Intelligence , Penguin Press, 2012 as well as Annie Jacobsen’s Surprise, Kill, Vanish,  Little, Brown and Company, 2019 .