Reza Kahlili is a former CIA operative who worked in the Iranian Revolutionary Guards. His award winning memoir, A Time To Betray, is required reading for U.S. Government intelligence training programs, and chronicles his life as a spy inside the Iranian regime. Kahlili is a senior fellow at EMPact America and also teaches at the U.S. Department of Defense’s Joint Counterintelligence Training Academy (JCITA) and at the Centre for Counterintelligence and Security Studies. “Reza Kahlili” is a pseudonym for security purposes.