UPCOMING MEETINGS

2025

January 18, 2025:   Bill Hall

February 15, 2025:  Cancelled!

March 15. 2025:  Colonel (Ret.) Joseph R. Connell and David W. Morrison

April 19, 2025: Robert (Bobby) Charles

May 17, 2025:  Ambassador Ronald

Neumann 

June 21, 2025:  David P. Hunt

THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FORMER INTELLIGENCE OFFICERS

The Association of Former Intelligence Officers (AFIO) was incorporated in 1975 as a 501(c)3 non-profit, non-political, educational association for current and former intelligence professionals and supporters of the US intelligence community. The Association is based in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

AFIO’s mission is to build a public constituency for a sound, healthy and capable U.S. intelligence system. The focus is on education fostering an understanding of the important role of intelligence in National Security and nurtures interest by students in careers in the many fields used by U.S. Intelligence Agencies. This includes the role of supporting intelligence activities in U.S. policy, diplomacy, strategy, security, and defense.

In addition, AFIO focuses on understanding the critical need for effective counterintelligence and security against foreign, political, technological, or economic espionage, as well as covert, clandestine and overt counter-terrorist or criminal operations threatening US security, the national infrastructure or corporate and individual safety.
AFIO’s mission has special significance in today’s international diplomatic and business environments.

Membership and subscription:
To join or subscribe go to: www.afio.com

OUR MISSION

Our mission is to build a public constituency for a sound, healthy and capable U.S. intelligence system. Our focus on education fosters an understanding of the important role of intelligence in National Security and nurtures interest by students in careers in the many fields used by U.S. Intelligence Agencies. This includes the role of supporting intelligence activities in U.S. policy, diplomacy, strategy, security and defense.

In addition, AFIO focuses on understanding the critical need for effective counterintelligence and security against foreign, political, technological or economic espionage, as well as covert, clandestine and overt counter-terrorist or criminal operations threatening US security, the national infrastructure or corporate and individual safety.

AFIO’s mission has special significance in today’s international diplomatic and business environments.

All Maine Chapter of Association of Former Intelligence Officers (AFIO) meetings are OPEN and the GENERAL PUBLIC is encouraged to attend. All are welcome to hear our speakers, who are primary source experts, express their views and opinions.

Maine Chapter’s effort is to help us all become better informed on the speakers’ subject matter; to become more knowledgeable on the facts behind current media headlines. We have also had foreign nationals give presentations on their perspective and opinions on their country or specific incidents.

The Chapter’s mission is to promote to the general public why it is important, necessary, to have a strong and effective intelligence capability as USA’s first line of defense. Please come and help us accomplish our mission.

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AFIO MEETING: June 21, 2025
2:00 p.m.
Can US Leadership Save Us from a Perilous State?

The next meeting of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers (AFIO) will be Saturday, June 21, 2025, at 2 p.m. in Kennebunk High School’s Economos Lecture Hall, 89 Fletcher Street and is open to all.

AFIO is pleased to announce that David P. Hunt, a retired senior CIA officer with 32 years in the Clandestine Service, is the featured speaker.

Mr. Hunt has had an extensive career with six field tours—including in Italy, Vietnam, Somalia, Norway, France, and New York City—and served as Chief of Station in both Mogadishu and New York. This experience gives him a broad perspective on today’s increasingly perilous global environment.

Mr. Hunt will address some of the immediate intelligence threats posed by China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea, as well as provide an historical context for Russia’s long-standing efforts to dominate its neighbors and suppress internal dissent. He will also analyze the “active measures” currently being employed by both Russia and China in Europe, and what their collaboration could mean for U.S. and allied security.

Mr. Hunt will share insights and lessons learned from his work with foreign governments, colleagues, and agents across decades of service.

He attended school in Switzerland and is a graduate of St. Paul’s School and Colby College. He served in the U.S. Army and spent a year in Korea with the Counterintelligence Corps. He is a recipient of the CIA’s Donovan Award for Excellence and its Distinguished Intelligence Medal, the Agency’s highest honor.

Currently, he serves as Chairman of Charles Pratt and Company and the Dosoris Trust Company in New York. He frequently lectures on intelligence matters and is President of AFIO’s New York Chapter.

We look forward to welcoming Mr. Hunt and hope you will join us for this timely presentation.

Following the presentation, there will be a question-and-answer session.

Following the presentation, there will be a question-and-answer session.