Prometheus Astray

By Tommy Bertrand

Last year espionage cost the United States more than $250 billion and a staggering $1.2 trillion over the last decade. It's not hard to envision why the United States is a prime target of espionage when one considers that the United States spent more money in the year 2012 on research and development than all of the other G-7 countries combined.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tommy Bertrand
• Release date: Jan 3, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301721733

Tommy Bertrand

Mr. Tommy Bertrand is currently the Deputy Director, Information Protection, Headquarters Air Force Global Strike Command, Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana. Mr. Bertrand became a civil service employee in 2002 after contributing twenty years of service on active duty in the United States Air Force. Mr. Bertrand’s first civilian assignment was as a personnel security specialist at the Special Security Office, Air Force Research Laboratory Rome, N.Y. He later transferred to the, Electronic Systems Center Hanscom A.F.B. as the lead industrial security specialist. He later was promoted and moved from the Electronic Systems Center to the Air Force Test Flight Center Edwards A.F.B. Ca. as the lead Government Special Access Program Security Officer for the Joint Strike Fighter Program. In 2005, Mr. Bertrand was again promoted and moved to Wright Patterson AFB, where he served as the Security Director of the Air Force Institute of technology and the Air Forces Research Lab’s Systems Test Center. Mr. Bertrand is married to the former Ms. Amanda White of Jesup, Iowa and resides in Shreveport, La., with their son Henry. EDUCATION M.S., Economic Crime Management, Utica College, Utica, NY. B.S., Liberal Arts, History, Excelsior College, Albany, NY. A.A.S., Criminal Justice, Community College of the Air Force, Montgomery, AL. CAREER CHRONOLOGY 1. 1981- 2001 Active Duty United States Air Force 2. 2001-2002 Air Force Research Laboratory, Rome, NY. 3. 2003-2004 ESC SSO, Hanscom AFB, MA. 4. 2004-2005 Air Force Test Flight Center, F-35 Program, Edwards AFB, CA. 5. 2005-2009 Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, OH. 6. 2009- 2010 November 2003, AFRL Systems Test Center, Wright Patterson AFB, OH. 9. April 2010 – Present - Deputy Director, Information Protection AWARDS AND HONORS Meritorious Service Medal with 2 Bronze Oak leaf Clusters Air Force Commendation Medal with 2 Bronze Oak Leaf Clusters Air Force Achievement Medal Joint Meritorious Unit Award Air Force Outstanding Unit Award with 3 Bronze Oak Leaf Clusters Air force good conduct medal with 1 Silver Oak Leaf Cluster National Defense Service Medal Southwest Asia Service Medal with 2 Bronze Clusters PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS AND ASSOCIATIONS Member Alpha Phi Sigma; National Criminal Justice Honor Society Member Shriner International Life member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars

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Epilogue

Prometheus is often represented as figure that embodied the notion of humans striving, for scientific knowledge. As the tale goes Prometheus stole fire from the Gods giving it to mankind who has used it for good and bad. A connection can be seen between today’s modern Prometheus’s who steal American technologies for sale on the global market. As in the tale; the Gods release Pandora and her box upon the world of men causing great suffering. Many of today’s technologies have been stolen and given to the third world and become a Pandora’s Box of our own making. It is only a matter of time before the technologies of weapon of mass destruction are released.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Nation under Attack

Current Efforts at Reduction of Espionage

A Process for Analysis

Prometheus Revisited

The Future

References

Nation under Attack

Last year espionage cost the United States more than $250 billion and a staggering $1.2 trillion over the last decade. It's not hard to envision why the United States is a prime target of espionage when one considers that the United States spent more money in the year 2012 on research and development than all of the other G-7 countries combined. Although the monetary damage is alarming, the damages are potentially more devastating. Espionage gives valuable intelligence to adversaries, which can cost the lives of intelligence operatives, endanger the lives of American troops and citizens, and limit the effectiveness of the government’s ability to wage war on terrorism. Often the spy is not a foreign intelligence agent, but is a trusted worker. Through detailed research this author has uncovered key motives, overt/covert actions, and personality behavior traits to be collected using content and secondary analysis of past cases and reports. Data derived through detailed analysis of five specific cases, unclassified information in the public domain, as well as subject matter expert reports.

One could say that since the dawn of humankind we have competed with one another; first for our individual survival and then for the survival and prominence of our intimate groups and societies. As societies spread and prospered, they developed new and innovative ways to expand their abilities. Nations developed their power over other societies through knowledge which had to be kept secret to guarantee their society’s prominence over its neighbors. As one might expect, this imbalance of power drove nations to spy on one another to assure their own survival. Arguably the first recorded writing regarding the use of espionage is attributed to Sun Tzu, a magnanimous ancient Chinese military theorist. According to Sun Tzu:

"The means by which enlightened rulers and sagacious generals moved and conquered others, that their achievements surpassed the masses, was advance knowledge. Advance knowledge cannot be gained from ghost and spirits, inferred from phenomena, or projected from the measures of Heaven, but must be gained from men for it is the knowledge of the enemy’s true situation."

Sun Tzu described five types of spies to use: the local, internal, double, expendable, and living spy. The spy discussed within