Tutorial

Human Intelligence (HUMINT) and Ethics

Tony Pfaff

The HUMINT tutorial will provide a brief, unclassified overview of key terminology and concepts of human intelligence collection and the ethical issues this form of intelligence gathering raises. The tutorial will cover the development and exploitation of open and clandestine HUMINT sources, as well as the interrogation of detainees. 

Lieutenant Colonel Tony Pfaff is a Middle East/North Africa Foreign Area Officer who has most recently served with the Civilian Police Assistance Training Team in Iraq. He also served with the Joint Staff, Special Operations Command, and the United Nations Iraq-Kuwait Observer Mission. He also served on the faculty at United States Military Academy where he taught Philosophy. LTC Pfaff holds a Bachelors in Economics and Philosophy from Washington and Lee University and a Masters in Philosophy from Stanford University, where he was a graduate fellow at the Stanford Center for Conflict and Negotiation. He also served as the ethics consultant for the Shlesinger Panel reviewing Department of Defense Detention Procedures from July-August 2004. He has also deployed to Operation Desert Shield/Storm with the 82nd Airborne Division and to Operation ABLE SENTRY with the 1st Armored Division.