Team Triad

April, 2015 - Middle East peace hangs in the balance as the U.S. and its partners conduct difficult negotiations with Iran to end its nuclear weapons program. As negotiations enter their final phase, the CIA loses its only two sources inside the Iranian nuclear establishment. A high-value NSA capability against Iran is compromised. U.S. nuclear negotiators sense Iran knows sensitive aspects of their strategy. Iran has penetrated deep into the heart of the U.S. negotiations effort.

The FBI creates Team Triad – an FBI-CIA-NSA team - to stop the Iranian espionage in time to save the negotiations. Josh Shirazi, a brilliant, Navy-trained, Iranian-American Signals Intelligence analyst, and Daniel Dechado, an NSA tech genius, add innovative cyber and Signals Intelligence techniques to the counterespionage and Human Intelligence talents of their extraordinary FBI and CIA teammates. The only hope of success is to combine Team Triad’s uniquely American mix of analytic skills with counterespionage techniques, Human Intelligence, communications intercept, cryptanalysis, language analysis, cyber techniques, imagery, social media, and luck.

Team Triad discovers someone is feeding Iranian decision-makers false information alleging U.S. duplicity.

One suspect and his married girlfriend are tracked in their red Ferrari in breathtakingly spectacular and delicious southwest Italy – to Amalfi, Ravello, Positano, Sorrento, Capri, and Pompeii.

Another spy trail appears to lead to Capitol Hill.

This challenging spy hunt is infused with the flavors of delicious food, mellow wine, foreign cultures and societies, and history.

Team Triad explores the complexities and challenges of intelligence analysis.

The author has forty-four years’ experience in the U.S Intelligence Community, with service in the Naval Security Group and at the National Security Agency. He has substantive experience with almost every aspect of the NSA intelligence production cycle - from user requirements, through collection, traffic analysis, cryptanalysis, foreign language analysis, intelligence analysis and reporting, dissemination, support to military operations, and crisis support. He studied eleven foreign languages from four very different language families.

He was awarded the National Intelligence Medal of Achievement, NSA’s Exceptional Civilian Service Award, and two NSA Meritorious Civilian Service Awards for his analytic successes.