This document provides a summary of Special Agent Andrew Bringuel's background, qualifications, and experience. It outlines his career history including management roles at Eastern Airlines and within the FBI, where he has held positions in investigations, instruction, research, and behavioral analysis. It also lists his skills, achievements, and education, demonstrating extensive experience in law enforcement, counterterrorism, leadership, and behavioral analysis.

1. Special Agent Andrew Bringuel, II
FBI Albany Division, Ithaca Resident Agency
171 East State Street
Ithaca, New York 14850
Contact: 703 401-7260
Clearances: Current TS/SCI
Email: andrew_bringuel@yahoo.com
Objective A challenging career managing people, conducting investigations, behavioral
consulting/analysis, product development, researching cognition, and instructing on
counterterrorism, human factors, crisis management, intelligence matters, leadership, conflict
resolution, crisis management, and evidence-based police practices.
Management –
 Andrew Bringuel, II was a successful manager with Eastern Airlines before joining the
FBI. He joined Eastern in June 1978 as a college summer hire in Atlanta, Georgia. He
was promoted to Operations Manager in 1985 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin with
responsibility for all flights and cargo operations. In 1988 he was promoted to Station
Manager responsible management of 57 employees, 8 daily flights, and a 3.5 million
dollar operating budget. SA Bringuel was responsible for managing the airline operation
during an airline strike and subsequent Chapter 13 bankruptcy in April 1989 and re-
opened the airport operations in Milwaukee on July 04, 1989.
 Andrew Bringuel joined the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) as a Special Agent
(SA) in February 1990 and has held multiple management positions beginning as a relief
supervisor in 1994 where he successfully engaged in a number of administrative
programs to include program manager of the Awareness of National Securities and
Response (ANSR) program which later became the InfraGard program. SA Bringuel was
also the Birmingham Special Operations Module (SOM) program manager responsible
for managing and maintaining an 18 man surveillance team of FBI Agents. In 1995 SA
Bringuel also co-authored the implemented Crisis Response Plan (CRP) for the FBI
office in Birmingham, Alabama.

2.  SA Andrew Bringuel was promoted to FBI Headquarters in Washington D.C. as a FBI
Supervisory Special Agent (SSA) Program Manager in 1999 at the National Domestic
Preparedness Office (NDPO) within the FBI’s Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)
Counterterrorism Division (CTD) where he successfully managed the Information
Sharing and Outreach Program. As program manager SSA Bringuel led a team of federal,
state, and local investigators and analysts creating and publishing The Beacon newsletter
that was distributed to police and firefighters around the United States. SSA Bringuel was
the editor/publisher of the On-Scene Commanders Guide for Responding to Chemical
and Biological Threats. There were 24,000 copies published and distributed throughout
the United States. Eventually the job aid was used by Canadian first responders and later
translated into Russian. An electronic version of the guide can still be found on the
Internet. SSA Bringuel’s team received recognition including salary Quality Step
Increases (QSI) and “time-off” awards for superior work.
 In May 2001 SSA Bringuel was promoted to FBI Senior Instructor at the FBI’s
Investigative Computer Training Unit (ICTU), FBI Academy at Quantico, Virginia where
he created curriculum for training new FBI Agent candidates on how to seize computers
and digital evidence, analytic tradecraft, and how to forensically examine digital evidence
for FBI investigations. He was awarded a QSI for superior service.
 In May 2005 SSA Bringuel transferred to the FBI’s Behavioral Science Unit (BSU) at
Quantico, Virginia as an instructor/researcher. He successfully established two research
programs including the Terrorism Research and Analysis Program (TRAP) and the
Behavioral Informatics Technology Studies (BITS) program. Both of these research
programs produced evidence-based training curriculum in areas including countering
violent extremism, relational policing, developing human intelligence, intelligence-based
analytics, leadership science, and conflict resolution and crisis management. SSA
Bringuel became a recognized subject matter expert on the criminal radicalization
process as well as the elements of relational policing. He was asked to speak at the
International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) in Chicago as well as in Saudi
Arabia on the topic of countering radicalization. SSA Bringuel’s management of the
TRAP program led to him being awarded the Thomas Jefferson award for research by the
University of Virginia for work related to a structured professional judgment (SPJ) tool
called the Group Analysis Protocol (GAP).
 SSA Andrew Bringuel successfully managed over 150 research fellows in the TRAP and
BITS programs. The research fellows came from a board range of academic fields as
well as a number of practitioners from police, intelligence, and military agencies. SSA
Bringuel’s research group consulted with the Airline Pilots Association (ALPA) and the
Transportation Security Agency (TSA) in 2010 recommending pre-board background
checks for airport security and a trusted traveler program to reduce air passenger delays.
The BITS program researched topics as diverse as the impact of 3D printers on future
policing, the impact of computer mediated communications on violent behavior, the
potential impact of nanotechnology on the collection of forensic evidence, and air–based
robotic threats to national security. The research produced a threat assessment tool known

3. as the Violent Extremist Risk Assessment (VERA) which is being field tested by the FBI
as well as international partners.
Investigations/Consultations –
 SSA Bringuel has over 10 years as a field investigator and has been the Case Agent (CA)
on investigations ranging from intellectual property theft, industrial espionage, to
corruption of government officials and terrorist attacks. SSA Bringuel has received
numerous performance-based awards for his investigative work including the Attorney
General’s award for leading a criminal investigation against a La Costa Nostra associated
organized crime group operating an illegal landfill in Moody, Alabama. In 1990 SSA
Bringuel identified a key piece of forensic evidence from an improvised explosive device
which contributed to the successful investigation leading to the arrest of Walter Leroy
Moody, responsible for the assassination of Federal Judge William Vance. SSA Bringuel
testified in both the Federal and state criminal trials against Moody who was convicted
and is on death row. SSA Bringuel’s investigative work was featured in two books on the
subject.
 SA Bringuel has been the FBI CA managing teams of investigators and analysts on
successful white collar, public corruption, bank fraud, environmental crimes, computer
crimes, civil rights, counterterrorism, and foreign counterintelligence investigations. SSA
Bringuel acted as both CA and undercover agent in a year-long operation targeting
intellectual property crimes that recovered over 7 million dollars worth of counterfeit
goods. The undercover operation was the first time in FBI history that third-party
contracts were used to purchase illegal contraband. SSA Bringuel worked with 13
different private sector victim companies, using 13 contracts, allowing the investigators
to route trace the contraband to the production facilities which led to their closure.
 SSA Bringuel has been a first responder to several crisis scenes including the Federal
Correctional Institute (FCI) at Talladega, Alabama when Cuban prisoners rioted and took
prisoners which ended with a successful tactical response. He was a first responder to an
abortion clinic bombing in Birmingham, Alabama and was a co-author of the negotiator’s
handbook during the fugitive search for Eric Robert Rudolph. SA Bringuel was a first
responder to the Pentagon after the attacks of 9/11/2001 and collected evidence of the
criminal attack for 6 weeks. SA Bringuel was also a crisis negotiator during the 2.5
month barricade with sovereign citizens in Jordan, Montana which ended with their
peaceful surrender.
 SSA Bringuel returned to the field as SA Bringuel in January 2016 to field test two SPJ
tools he developed and to finish his career working investigations. Within 7 months SA
Bringuel successfully recruited a confidential human source (CHS) who assisted in a
successful disruption operation resulting in the arrest of a subject.
 SA Bringuel has over 11 years experience as a behavioral analyst at the FBI’s Behavioral
Analysis Unit 5 (BAU-5), formerly the Behavioral Science Unit (BSU). SA Bringuel
frequently assisted the Behavioral Analysis Unit 1 (BAU-1, (Counterterrorism Unit))

4. with operational consultations for FBI field office operations regarding counterterrorism
investigative and interview strategies.
 In addition to FBI consultations, SA Bringuel has provided consulting services to
multiple international and domestic police partners including delegations from Romania,
Spain, Thailand, and the Philippines on how to establish an evidence-based Behavioral
Science Unit and how to implement relational policing practices.
 SA Bringuel has consulted on behavioral matters with the United States Army including
Red Cell Exercises on stability operations, fighting future wars, integrating new
technologies, and protecting U.S. ports. SA Bringuel has published monographs for the
military on topics from radicalization to relationship development and disruption.
Instruction/Speaking -
 From 1995-1999 while a Field Agent in Birmingham, Alabama, SA Bringuel provided
counterintelligence and counterterrorism lectures as Program Manager of the Awareness
of National Securities and Response (ANSR) program. These lectures were for private
sector companies in Huntsville, Alabama and the military at Ft. McClellan, Alabama. SA
Bringuel provided training and awareness on topics ranging from human factors, force
protection, physical security, and protecting intellectual property rights.
 From 2001-2005 SA Bringuel was a Senior Investigative Instructor at the FBI’s
Investigative Computer Training Unit (ICTU) where he taught New Agent recruits and
FBI Intelligence Analysts intelligence analytic tradecraft and intelligence-led policing
practices in a digital world.
 From 2005- 2016 SA Bringuel was an adjunct instructor for the University of Virginia
(UVA) and taught three highly rated graduate level courses at the FBI’s National
Academy (NA), a partnership school between the FBI and UVA for police executives.
The classes included Understanding the Terrorist Mindset which looked at how terrorist
groups form and radicalize as well as how police can disengage an individual from the
criminal group for the purposes of neutralizing the criminal group, Exploring Criminal
Enterprises and the Government’s Response which looked at police behaviors and
criminal behaviors from an ecological and developmental perspective and Conflict and
Crisis Management for Leaders: Theory and Practice which looked at leadership
principles, conflict resolution, and crisis management from a relational perspective.
Students who successfully completed the course requirements received 3 hours of
graduate school credit.
 In 2013 SA Bringuel was an adjunct professor at Catholic University teaching a
successful undergraduate course on the Psychology of Terrorism. SA Bringuel has been a
frequent guest instructor for classes at the Marine War College, American University,
University of Tennessee, Air Force Academy, George Washington University, and
Cambridge University on the topic of terrorism and radicalization.

5.  SA Bringuel is often asked to be a keynote speaker/lecturer around the world. SA
Bringuel has taught for the DoS in Hungary and Moldova, for DOJ in England, El
Salvador, Trinidad, Romania, Canada, and Saudi Arabia as well as around the United
States including lectures titled Policing in Multicultural Environments as well as
Criminal Radicalization: Understanding & Countering Radicalization, Disengagement,
and De-radicalization. SA Bringuel has lectured in Cleveland, Ohio during a Civil
Rights conference on the Three Functions of Relational Policing: Peace Officer,
Intelligence Officer, and Law Enforcement Officer
 SA Bringuel has been a frequent guest instructor for the Army’s MISO/PsyOps program
at Ft. Bragg, Marine’s Combat Hunter course, and Marine’s MIOC at Quantico, Virginia
teaching courses on interpreting atmospherics and behavior, relationship development
and disruption techniques as well as a training course on intelligence-led policing for the
Marine’s military police at Camp Pendleton.
Research–
 SA Bringuel developed a structured professional judgment (SPJ) tool called the Group
Analysis Protocol (GAP) which measures cognitive propensities based on a set of
intelligence questions. The GAP is a tool intended to help in the development of a target
audience analysis (TAA) package that can help shape the use of Tactics, Techniques, and
Procedures (TTPs) by augmenting heuristics. The SPJ is used primarily in developing
confidential human sources and has been field tested throughout 2016.
 SA Bringuel was a partner in the development of a structured professional judgment
(SPJ) tool used as a threat assessment instrument. The SPJ tool is intended to augment
the heuristics of an investigator/analyst in determining the level of threat during an
investigative assessment. This SPJ has been field tested throughout 2016.
Product Development/Publications -
 SA Andrew Bringuel is a published author and editor of the Terrorism Research and
Analysis Project (TRAP): A Collection of Research Ideas, Thoughts, and Perspectives, V.
1(2011).
 He wrote a chapter in the book titled Policing and Preventing Terrorism around the
Globe (2013)
 He wrote a chapter in the book Blood Sacrifices Violent Non-state Actors and Dark
Magico-religious Activities. N.p.: Iuniverse, 2016.
 SA Bringuel has co-authored a number of essays as a member of the FBI/BSU Futures
Working Group (FWG) published online at the website for the Society of Police Futurists
International (PFI).
 SA Bringuel contributed as an author to a recent white paper on ISIL’s effect on
recruiting foreign fighters published by DoD’s SOCENT in 2015.
Experience -
 Eastern Airlines, Inc. (6/1978 - 2-1990)

6. Ramp Service Agent, Shift Manager, Operations Manager, Station
Manager, Corporate Sales Manager
 Federal Bureau of Investigation (2/1990 - Present)
Supervisory Special Agent
Manage, consult, research, and instruct on behavioral matters dealing with individual and
group criminal behaviors
Skills-
 Management/supervision, program manager, consulting behavioral-based analysis, media
representative, crisis negotiator, researcher countering terrorism, human relationships,
emerging technologies, instructor - leadership, terrorism, policing practices, conflict
resolution, crisis management, curriculum design, criminal investigation and intelligence
based analysis, public speaker, undercover agent.
Achievements-
 Incentive award (1991)
Found key evidence in murder of Federal Judge, William Vance and testified at Federal and
state trials against Walter Leroy Moody.
 Quality Step Increase (1995)
Sustained work performance including working as an undercover Agent for a yearlong
intellectual property crimes operation targeting counterfeit goods.
 Incentive award and Attorney Generals Award (1999) was the lead investigating Agent
(Case Agent) on the Acmar landfill case which involved associates of a known organized
crime group from New York, New York.
 Quality Step Increase (2001)
Sustained work performance as program manager of the Information and Outreach Unit,
National Domestic Preparedness Office (NDPO). Conceived and implemented the
“Connecting Your Community” initiative to create interoperable communications through
Law Enforcement Online (LEO) among first responders, both Crisis Managers and
Consequence Managers during terrorist attacks. Published and edited the On-Scene
Commanders Guide for Responding to Chemical and Biological Incidents.
 Incentive Award (2008)
Performance as Acting Unit Chief of the Behavioral Science Unit (BSU)
 University of Virginia's Jefferson Award (2009)
Developed research on group formation, dynamics, and the rationalization process leading to
criminal radicalization
Education-
 Bachelor of Science (BS) (1978 - 1983) St. Leo University
 Master of Arts (M.A.) (2002 -2004) University of Virginia

7.  Numerous FBI certifications to including but not limited to FBI Supervisor’s Training,
FBI Media Reprehensive Certification, Basic Crisis Management Training, Behavioral
Science Unit Research Methods Certified, DoD Executive Security Terrorism Course
(Garmisch, Germany), Certified Crisis Negotiator Instructor, Certified Undercover
Agent , Reid Interview and Interrogation Training, Counterterrorism Advance Training,
SWAT Training, Surveillance Training, Basic and Advanced Foreign Counter
Intelligence Training, Basic Computer Forensics Training, Economic Espionage
Training, Certified Operational HAZMAT Training, Physical Security Training, Human
Targeting Training/Instructor Certification, Confidential Human Source Development
Training.
References -
 Available upon request.