An elite team of CIB Senior Analysts presented its semester-long research to senior officials from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in Columbia, South Carolina, as well as to Russia specialists in a separate event hosted by the FBI’s Russian National Language Board.

For the entirety of the spring 2025 semester, the CIB’s Applied Intelligence Project (AIP) studied a research topic that was assigned to them by the FBI. The research topic focused on the activities of Unit 29155 of Russian military intelligence, known as the Main Directorate of the Armed Forces’ General Staff, or GRU. Separated into two groups, the AIP Senior Analysts gathered a wide array of open-source data and established patterns of activity by GRU Unit 29155 in over 20 countries around the world.

Following the presentation at the FBI Columbia Field Office in April, the senior leadership of the FBI’s National Language Board invited the AIP group to present its research to a nationwide audience on the Microsoft Teams teleconferencing platform. This separate presentation took place in early May, with an audience of over 70 FBI analysts and special agents from over a dozen different Field Offices around the country.

The CIB wishes to thank wholeheartedly the FBI Columbia leadership for its hospitality, with special thanks to M.F. We are grateful their work in facilitating this fruitful exchange. A printed version of the CIB team’s intelligence product will be produced in late summer 2025.