SpyCruise 2003: San Diego to Hawaii -- "Denial, Deception and Illusion", March 27-April 9, 2003

Imagine getting away from it all and taking a leisurely cruise to the tropical paradise of Hawaii on a super luxurious ship. While sailing to your destination, you have the unique opportunity to attend daily seminars on one of your favorite topics--espionage and spy cases. You listen as retired intelligence and counterintelligence officers from the CIA, FBI, DOD, RCMP and even KGB regale you with true stories of the secret world hidden from most of us. Your fellow passengers in this exclusive group on board the ship share your same interests and you have the makings of a memorable, unique vacation you'll never forget!

Join us for SpyCruise™--a wonderful and relaxing vacation sailing from San Diego to Hawaii as part of the exclusive SpyCruise™ group on board the Royal Caribbean's Legend of the Seas ship from March 27 to April 9, 2003. Each day while at sea SpyCruise professors from the Centre for Counterintelligence and Security Studies of Alexandria, Virginia, will talk about espionage related to our cruise theme, "Denial, Deception and Illusion." You'll find out how foreign intelligence services used these tradecraft techniques to change the course of history.

Fascinating lectures will be given by retired senior CIA officers Tony and Jonna Mendez who were top disguise experts at the CIA, top counterintelligence expert David Major who was a senior FBI official, KGB General Oleg Kalugin who headed KGB foreign counterintelligence, retired US Army counterespionage investigator Connie Allen, retired Canadian RCMP counterintelligence officer and security expert Dan Mulvenna, Dr. Paul Moore--one of the country's leading experts on Chinese intelligence, retired CIA operations officer Bart Bechtel, and British intelligence author and historian Nigel West.

In the ship's lounges each night after dinner, you'll be able to meet with our SpyCruise™ professors to ask them more about their lectures or about their spy careers and experiences.

Once we arrive at the Hawaiian Islands, the ship will make stops at Hilo, Kona, Maui, Kauai and Honolulu. You don't have to pack/unpack--the ship is our hotel and our base of operations. This saves you the expenses of airfare, hotels and rental cars at each location and is a terrific bargain!