Hutton Honors College

Give Me Liberty--and Security: American and Canadian Perspectives on the Global War on Terror
Discussion Supper with Former CIA Operations Officer Gene Coyle and Former Member of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service Alan McIvor

Friday, April 4, 2008 * 5:30-7 p.m. * Honors House, 324 N. Jordan Ave. * SIGN-UP REQUIRED

How secure do you feel? Do Canada and the United States have different approaches, use different methods to secure their borders and their populations, to gather intelligence? How do they and other allies coordinate their efforts? What do they think, and what do you think, is the proper balance between "greater efficiency" in preventing terrorist acts and guarding civil liberties? Are all means of gathering information acceptable given the risks faced?

Join former intelligence officers Gene Coyle and Alan McIvor for informal discussion and the opportunity to learn about the U.S. and Canadian perspectives on the global war on terror. Gene Coyle spent 13 of his 30 years with the Central Intelligence agency working undercover in various countries, including Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Brazil, and Greece. He has been teaching at IU since 2004, for the first two years under a CIA academic outreach program and more recently as an adjunct professor in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs. He is the author of a spy novel, The Dream Merchant of Lisbon, and has written articles for the CIA's Studies in Intelligence journal. Alan McIvor retired in 2007 after 35 years in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police with 30 years of operational experience in security intelligence, including 9 years in the Counter Terrorism Branch of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service and, most recently, 4 years in charge of the CSIS Liaison offices in Washington, D.C., and New York.

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