11 October 2012
James Atkinson Admits to Being a Spy
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 23:14:07 -0400
From: "James M. Atkinson" <jmatk[at]tscm.com>
To: TSCM-L Mailingin List <tscm-l2006[at]googlegroups.com>
Subject: [TSCM-L] {6254} LinkedIn - Coming in, Out of the Cold
The following is my updated LinkedIn profile, which some of the list members
will find of interest.
http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=15178662
Yes, I was an official spook, a spy, a contractor spook actually, and yes
the CIA, U.S. State Department, FBI, the U.S. Army were all some of my major
clients, along with a host of their cut-outs, other agencies. I have been
to Capital Hill to work more then a few times.
It is time for me to reveal what I have been doing professionally for the
past few decades, and to "come in out of the cold" as it were, and to depart
the wilderness of mirrors and to focus on strictly private sector work.
This update explains a lot more about my background and credentials, the
huge number of courses where I have been able to learn spectrum analyzers
from the inside out, and expertly learn dozens of major signals intelligence
systems; considerable number of TSCM courses; peripheral courses; computer
programming courses; cell phone system courses, and essentially keeping on
the leading edge of state-of-the-art technologies for over 30 year in order
to keep a few steps ahead of the eavesdroppers I spent decades hunting. I
aggressively sought out and attended massive, just massive numbers of technical
courses, and got NDA'd to death in order to take many of the very expensive,
and proprietary classes, but it was always a valuable investment.
TSCM, Hardware Engineering and Software Engineering, has always been my core
skill set for the last 35 years, but also the other disciplines needed to
detect and control "electronics leaking secrets" or systems being provoked
into leaking secrets.
I also have training that I have not listed, and that I wish to remain private,
and perhaps in the Spring I will list what is missing. Suffice to say, I
am very good at locating the flaws that crime scene technicians commit, I
know how to identify tainted or planted evidence, and how to catch forensics
expert faking test results, and how to run gels, read CODIS, and explain
the molecular basis of what as found, and why the evidences is often not
what the forensics people claim it is. I studied forensics and crime scene
processing in order to apply the methods to TSCM applications, and to refine
how I did bug sweeps.
Along the way, I became an extremely good photographer, and capable of either
investigative, legal, technical, or fine arts photography. Note: If you need
a skilled photographer for anything, I am the person you want to talk to.
I am really quite skilled in fine arts portraits, and I have several online
portfolios of my work if anybody in interested. I am skilled in all elements
of digital and film based photography, darkroom work, digital processing
in Photoshop, and skilled in the studio, or on location. My evidence photographs
and large-scale courtroom exhibits really rock, seriously, they as amazingly
good (and quite inexpensive). If you are a PI or an attorney and you need
photography, let me know. If you are a PI and you need a photographer, also
let me know. My portraits are just stunning, and often time they make people
cry because they are done so well.
I also became a well-respected tactical instructor, and I have listed the
places and schools where I am or was officially certified as an instructor,
armorer, or similar certifications. I do not care at this time to list the
horde of courses that I needed to take in order to become certified as an
instructor, but it as quite a lot.
I have also included some (but not all) of my medical training, and medical
certifications and credentials as well; including the patents, I am pursing,
and the medical device designs I have prototyped.
I have also listed the Courts where I have been accepted or certified by
the court as an expert witness, and where I gave expert testimony in the
case, but this is actually a partial list. You might notice that I have been
certified as an expert to Congress more then once, and the CIA has certified
me as a subject matter expect to perform as a Presidential Advisor. I have
a few more court expert certifications to add, but I need to get clarification
of exactly how the court defined me (i.e.: hat topic).
You will also note, that I design hardware, and write software to make the
hardware do really cool things, but that I design and prototype, and then
sell the designs off to be manufactured by a .gov contractor. If you want
TSCM hardware of software developed from scratch let me know, I have awesome
engineering course.
I am also very skilled on the hard-core hardware side of things with data
and telephone (and cellular telephone) systems, transmissions systems, switching
systems, and everything that flows across our major national fiber networks.
I am also very skilled with wiring and cabling (phone and data networks),
and specialize in long haul single mode fiber optic systems, or highly
specialized fiber optics like undersea cable and landings, and fiber optic
systems for "special clients" I also remain the only TSCM firm in the country
who can definitively prove or disprove a fiber optic systems has been
compromised, like the huge foreign intercept of a major fiber optic trunk
(attached to classified US Government facilities) in Reston, VA a few years
back.
I would ask that if you are not already linked to me, that you issue me an
Invitation request, so that I can link back to you.
LinkedIn also has a "Recommendations" feature so that you can write a
recommendation for me for either a position I held, a school I attended,
or a project I was involved in, and I would deeply appreciate any recommendations
that you can to provide on my behalf.
There is also the "Endorsements of Skills and Expertise" and if you could
please click on the ones that you feel I am competent in, or the ones you
have seen me perform I would be greatly appreciative.
So remember; Invite, Recommend, Endorse...
and I will reciprocate when it is appropriate to do so.
http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=15178662
It has been a long journey from a teenage keypunch operator to a TSCM Expert
called on by the President, the Congress, and most of the U.S. Intelligence
community, with a stack of credentials.
However, it is now time to depart the wilderness, and to come in from the
cold, and go back to college part time.
If you need TSCM, or engineering work, or photography, or any of the other
skills I have listed, please let me know because I am seeking select assignments
that will not interfere with the college courses that I am taking at present.
Thank You.
--
James M. Atkinson. President and Sr. Engineer
"Leonardo da Vinci of Bug Sweeps and Spy Hunting"
http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=15178662
Granite Island
Group
http://www.tscm.com/
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546-3803
jmatk[at]tscm.com
(978) 381-9111
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