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SpyTrek®: Espionage-Themed Travel Excursions
The most intriguing and unique vacations you'll
ever go on!
Travel around the world and learn about
real espionage and spy cases
from retired intelligence
and counterintelligence officers
from the FBI, CIA, DOD, RCMP and
KGB, plus famous intelligence
authors and historians. These American, British, Canadian and Russian spies
and spycatchers were on the front lines of the Cold War battles between
superpowers. Now they teach at the
Centre for Counterintelligence and Security
Studies (CI Centre) of Washington, DC. Normally their courses are only available
to government and private sector organizations, but via SpyTrek®
travel excursions, they have made their special lectures available to you. You too can experience these rich, in-depth
multimedia presentations and learn from the vast experience of the instructors.
Plus you'll have the unique chance to mingle and
talk shop with them and enjoy a wonderful vacation to exciting locations.
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SPYCity Series:
SpyDrive®
in the Spy Capital of the World--Washington,
DC
SpyTrek is taking reservations for GROUPS only for
SpyDrive: Washington and
SpyDrive: The Robert Hanssen Case. These
two+ hour "classroom-on-wheels" take you to key spy sites in the Washington, DC
area and you'll learn from both an retired American intelligence officer and a
retired Russian intelligence officers. For those wishing a real in-depth view of
one of the most important espionage cases in American history, the Robert
Hanssen SpyDrive takes you to actual operational sites used by Hanssen and the
KGB.
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SpyCruise®
There have been three SpyCruises to the Western Caribbean, Hawaii and on the QE2 to London.
CI Centre Professor Nigel West is taking a group on a cruise to the Black Sea in
July 2009. More
SpyRetreat®
There have been two SpyRetreats at The Homestead
Resort in the mountains of Virginia.
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SPYCity Series:
SpyMoscow
Those who attended
the second SpyMoscow in 2003 had an incredible time and heard lectures from retired KGB intelligence officers as
well as visiting key Moscow spy sites. Now CI Centre Professor Dan Mulvenna is
taking another group to Moscow in August 2008.
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SpyTrek/CI Centre Store:
Buy spy
posters, mugs, shirts and more!
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The
Ultimate Spy Book
Required reading for any
well-traveled spy,
by CI Centre professor
Keith Melton.
Foreword by Richard Helms
and
Markus Wolf.
Reviewed by
Hayden Peake
Spy News
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Cases
Spy
History
Spy Reference Material
Spy Podcasts
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Upcoming SpyTrek Events:
SpyMoscow
A Cold War Summit: From Cambridge
to Moscow
14-28 August
2008
CI Centre
Professors Dan Mulvenna and Nigel West are taking a
group to Moscow via London. Tour features:
- In-depth briefings by intelligence professionals (from
both sides of the Cold War) who are knowledgeable about
the "inside details" of operations and individuals
discussed.
- Study Leader, Nigel West — author of VENONA and other
respected books on security, intelligence and espionage
— takes you behind the curtain of Cold War intelligence
and espionage.
- Discover hidden spy sites in Moscow with a former KGB
colonel and Dan Mulvenna, a former Western
counterintelligence officer and lecturer on
counterintelligence at the Counterintelligence Centre,
Washington.
- Learn about the KGB's roundup of U.S. agents in
Russia/Moscow, including America's great spy, Adolf
Tolkachev.
- Hear about the death of Alexander Litvinenko from a
Russian consultant to the BBC’s Panorama program.
- With staff at the Churchill Archives Centre, explore
Cold War materials from its collection.
- Enjoy a reception with retired KGB officers in Moscow.
- Go behind the scenes at Bletchley Park, where code
breakers decrypted and interpreted Axis messages and
broke the German Enigma Code during World War II.
More information and register
SpyCruise®
2009
OPERATION
ISTANBUL- SPIES, LIES & ESPIONAGE!
11-23 July
2009
CI Centre
Professor Nigel West and other professors are taking a
group aboard the luxury ship, the Oceania Nautica,
to sail the Black Sea. Travel stops include:
ISTANBUL. We shall
visit the home and office of Kim Philby, the
British Secret Intelligence Service officer who was the
local station commander between 1946 and 1949. He was
also a Soviet spy and he betrayed details of several
covert operations mounted from Istanbul across the
Turkish border. Also on the itinerary is the Soviet
legation where a GRU officer, Konstantin Volkov,
worked until he offered to defect to the British in
September 1945. He too was betrayed by Philby who flew
from London to handle his case, only to find that Volkov
had been arrested by the NKVD. Our escort will be one of
the world's leading intelligence authorities who
coauthored Philby's biography.
SOCHI. Stalin's
camouflaged dacha in the woods above Sochi gave him a
secure refuge and an isolated, guarded compound in which
he relaxed and planned his strategy. His study,
billiards-room and living quarters remain unchanged, and
we will enjoy lunch in his dining-room where there will
be a lecture on Stalin and Lavrenti Beria, his notorious
intelligence chief.
YALTA. The venue for
the great February 1945 Crimea Conference attended by
Winston Churchill, Stalin and an ailing President
Roosevelt, we will tour the Czar's summer palace where
the meetings took place and see the room on the ground
floor where FDR stayed, tended by his daughter. We will
also visit the Vorontsov villa where Churchill and the
British delegation stayed and hear a talk from Nigel
West on Alger Hiss, the State Department
adviser who was a Soviet spy and a member of the
American delegation.
BALAKLAVA. This former
Soviet Black Sea Fleet base includes an underground
submarine depot carved out of a mountain and concealed
behind huge camouflaged bomb-proof steel doors. Built in
conditions of great secrecy in 1956, the cavernous
facility includes a canal to the open sea, a dry dock,
weapons bays and workshops, and now accommodates a Cold
War museum filled with naval exhibits. We will be
accompanied by a former Soviet nuclear submarine
commander who worked on the site, and his wife.
More information
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Reserved
For more
information and to register for this SpyCruise®,
contact:
Amanda
Densmore CTA
Travel
Concierge
2346 Tamisola
Street
Sarasota, FL,
USA 34237
Office: (941)
330-9126
Mobile: (941)
586-6621
Fax: (866)
845-8003
amanda@travelxperts.com
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