Project Aletheia

Professor Laurence Alison, Ph.D., University of Liverpool, UK, focuses on high-profile critical incidents, and has 28 years of experience working on applied projects for law enforcement and security services. He currently provides training to the FBI, CIA, and US military, as well as law enforcement and security authorities within the UK, including UK counterterrorism personnel and the British Army, in evidence-based interrogation methods.

Steven J. Barela is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Geneva (Switzerland) in the Department of History and Philosophy of Law and is also an Associate Research Fellow at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights. Barela is a co-editor of the sweeping volume Interrogation and Torture: Integrating Efficacy with Law and Morality capturing global insights on interrogation from science, law, and morality. Moreover, as Editor, he led the Chairperson’s Editorial Group on the “Principles of Effective Interviewing for Investigations and Information Gathering” (Méndez Principles) and participated in the Drafting Groups.

Cal Corley is a former Assistant Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and head of the Canadian Police College, which provides advanced training to Canadian police services. With extensive operational and executive-level experience, he also served as the RCMP Senior Envoy to Mexico and the Americas, and on Canada’s Privy Council Office, within the Security and Intelligence Secretariat.

Timothy Janowick is the Deputy Mission Advisor for the Department of Justice, International Criminal Investigation Training Assistance Program (ICITAP) Regional Program Office in Ukraine. He was the Chief of Police of the Mount Prospect Police Department in Illinois, is a member of the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP), International Managers of Police Academy and College Training (IMPACT) Section, and is on the Advisory Board of the International Law Enforcement Educators and Trainers Association (ILEETA).

Professor Pär Anders Granhag, PhD, Department of Psychology at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. His research includes cognitive psychology, in particular human judgment and decision-making, memory, and meta-memory. He has also conducted extensive research on the psychology of deception, the psychology of interrogation, and the psychology of criminal investigations and the courts. He is the founder and director of the Research Unit for Criminal, Legal, and Investigative Psychology (CLIP), which has been singled out for its excellence in producing research.

Frazier Thompson retired in 2019 from the FBI as a Senior Executive with over 24 years of federal law enforcement service, including serving as the Director of the High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group (HIG) and the Chief of the FBI Counterintelligence Training Center, with assignments to Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. He is currently the Global Security Manager for a global Fortune 500 company.

Andrew Thompson is a Certified Fraud Examiner and Senior Investigator at a world-leading law firm that has prosecuted some of the most significant securities fraud cases in recent memory, including Boeing’s 737-Max safety issues and Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica scandal. His operational experiences developing HUMINT sources, interviewing homicide suspects, and providing close protection to heads of state have all been informed by his academic pursuits in psychology and law.

Robert McFadden is a 30-year veteran of the US federal law enforcement, intelligence, and counterintelligence communities and held several high-profile positions, including NCIS Deputy Assistant Director. He served in numerous assignments in the Near and Middle East and was the NCIS case agent for the investigation of the attack on the USS Cole, the 9/11 al-Qa’ida task force, and assisted in the investigation and interrogation of terrorist suspects held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba for trials before military commissions.

Mark Severino retired from the Los Angeles Police Department, as a Detective Supervisor in the Major Crimes Division after serving thirty-five years. Mark was frequently requested to assist the FBI and DHS in Counter Terrorism and Organized Crime investigations. Mark had coordinated investigations that were briefed at the highest level of the U.S. Government and had received international media attention by “The Wall Street Journal” regarding an investigation that involved terrorist funding. Mark has also provided classified briefing to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Homeland Security, Subcommittee on Intelligence, regarding complex investigations that originated from the City of Los Angeles. Mark served as liaison between the Los Angeles Police Department’s Major Crimes Division and the U.S. Government’s High Value Detainee Interrogation Group.

There are two active undercover police officers within a major metropolitan police department on the Advisory Council, whose names remain undisclosed for operational security reasons. Their undercover duties include counterterrorism operations, homicides, corruption, narcotic operations, and human trafficking. They have been training in HIG-sponsored interrogation techniques and have incorporated these techniques into their practice.

Jemma Williams

Jadaera Lorenzo

Karen Niremberg

Emily Ives

Jessica Palatnik

Jadaera Lorenzo

Karen Niremberg

Emily Ives

Jemma Williams

Amanda Malandruccolo