Dennis Pluchinsky
dpluchinsky@rocketmail.com
Government Experience
Since 2006, an associate of the National Intelligence Council’s Global
Expertise Reserve Program.
From February 1977 - January 2005 - senior intelligence analyst in the
Office of Intelligence and Threat Analysis, Diplomatic Security Service,
U.S. Department of State.
From 2001 - 2004 – responsible for al-Qaeda – its tactical tendencies,
targeting patterns, and surveillance methods.
From 1998 - 2001 - division chief for the Middle East, South Asia, East
Asia, and the Pacific.
From 1977 - 1998 - responsible for monitoring and analyzing terrorism and
other security problems in Western Europe, Eastern Europe, and the Former
Soviet Union.
In 1982 - received the State Department’s Meritorious Honor Award for
chairing the Intelligence Sub-Committee of the Dozier Working Group.
U.S. Army General James Dozier was kidnapped by Red Brigade terrorists
in Italy in 1981.
In 1992 - selected for the Director of Central Intelligence’s Exceptional
Intelligence Analyst program. The subject of his research was ethnic
conflict in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union.
In 2004 - selected for the Director of Central Intelligence’s Exceptional
Intelligence Officer program. The topic of his research was terrorist
surveillance methods, ruses, and disguises.
Teaching Experience: Frequent guest lecturer at the Joint Military
Intelligence College, the U.S. Secret Service Training Center, the National
Foreign Affairs Training Center, the CIA’s Kent School for Intelligence, the
CIA University, and the FBI Training Academy at Quantico on behalf of
West Point’s Counter-Terrorism Center.
He has taught a terrorism course at local universities since 1990. He taught
terrorism courses for the Forensic Sciences Department at the George
Washington University (1990-2006), for the Administration of Justice
Department, Government Department, and Bioterrorism program at the
George Mason University (2002 – Present), for the Department of Political
Science at Mary Washington University (2001-2005), for the Department of
Political Science at the James Madison University (1995-2001), for the
Defense Security Studies program at Missouri State University (2008), and
for the National Security Studies Program at Georgetown University (20082009). He has taught graduate and undergraduate courses on terrorism,
counter-terrorism, ethnic conflict, and al-Qaeda and the global jihad
movement.
He has taught a course on terrorism for a total of 86 semesters at the above
universities over the past 18 years.
His terrorism course was the subject of a front page article in the metro
section of the Washington Post on March 25, 2004 and on CNN’s “In the
Money” program on January 15, 2005, and CNN’s “NewsWatch” with
Aaron Brown on April 11, 2005.
Professional Associations
 Contributing editor to the international journal Studies in Conflict and
Terrorism.
 Member of the International Scientific Board of the Institute for
Research on Contemporary Criminal Problems in Paris, France.
Publications
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Book chapter “Political Terrorism in Western Europe: Some Themes
and Variations” in Terrorism in Western Europe. (1982)
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Article “Middle Eastern Terrorist Activity in Western Europe: A
Diagnosis and Prognosis,” Conflict Quarterly, Vol. VI, #3, Summer
1986.
Book chapter “Middle Eastern Terrorist Activity in Western Europe in
1985,” in Contemporary Research on Terrorism. (1987)
Coeditor and chapter in European Terrorism: Today and Tomorrow.
(1992).
Article “Middle Eastern Terrorism in Europe: Trends and Prospects,”
Terrorism: An International Journal, Volume 14, 1991.
Article “Academic Research on European Terrorist Developments,”
Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Volume 15, 1992.
Co-author of Europe’s Last Red Terrorists: The Fighting Communist
Organizations. (1992)
Article “The Red Army Faction: An Obituary,” Studies in Conflict
and Terrorism, Volume 16, July 1993.
Article “The Terrorism Puzzle: Missing Pieces and No Boxcover,”
Terrorism and Political Violence, Vol. 9, Spring 1997.
Article “Terrorism in the Former Soviet Union: A Primer, A Puzzle,
A Prognosis,” Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Vol. 21, April –
June 1998.
Book chapter “Ethnonational Terrorism: Themes and Variations,”
FOAA Report on Terrorism (Stockholm: Defense Research
Establishment, 1998).
Newspaper Commentary “They Heard It Here and That’s The
Trouble,” Sunday Outlook Section, Washington Post, June 16, 2001,
p. B3.
Newspaper Commentary “Deadly Puzzle of Terrorism,” OpEd
Section, Washington Times, September 11, 2002, p. A19.
Newspaper Commentary “Al-Qaeda: An Identity Crisis?” OpEd
Section, Washington Times, April 28, 2003, p. 19
Newspaper Commentary “No Longer Asleep on Terror,” OpEd
Section, Washington Times, September 8, 2003.
Book chapter “Ethnic Terrorism and Insurgencies,” in Understanding
and Managing Insurgent Movement (Singapore: Marshall Cavendish
Academic, 2006).
Book chapter “Typology and Anatomy of Terrorist Operations,” in
David Kamien, editor, The McGraw-Hill Homeland Security
Handbook (N.Y: McGraw-Hill, 2006)
Book chapter “Ethnic Terrorism: Themes and Variations” in The
Politics of Terror, edited by Andrew Tan (London: Routledge, 2006).
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Article “Evolution of The U.S. Government’s Annual Report on
Terrorism: A Personal Commentary, Studies in Conflict and
Terrorism (January –February 2006, Volume 29, Issue 1), pages 9198.
Article “The Migration of Terrorist Tactics, Techniques, and
Creativity (TTC),” Revue de L’Electricite, Et De L’Electonique
(Paris), Number 10, November 2007, pp. 37-43.
Article – “Global Jihadist Recidivism: A Red Flag,” in Studies in
Conflict and Terrorism, March 2008 issue.
Media:
Has appeared on Fox News, ABC News, CNN, and New York Times video
and gives recurring interviews to the Washington, D.C. WTOP radio
program “The Hunt” with J.J. Green.
Education: BA in Sino-Soviet Relations from Madison College in 1973;
M.A. in International Affairs (Soviet Concentration) from George
Washington University in 1978.
Current Positions:
Since retiring from the U.S. State Department in January 2005, he holds the
following current positions:
1. Private, part-time consultant to a major U.S. multinational company.
2. Recurring lecturer on terrorism at the National Foreign Affairs Training
Center, the Joint Military Intelligence Training Center, the Kent School of
Intelligence, the CIA University, and at the FBI Training Academy at
Quantico on behalf of West Point’s Counter-Terrorism Center.
3. A member of the Director of National Intelligence / National Intelligence
Council’s global expertise reserve program (GERD) – 2006-2008.
4. A senior consultant to Innovative Analytics and Training LLC in
Washington, D.C.
5. Adjunct professor at Georgetown University and George Mason
University.