Kathleen M. Puckett

About Kathleen M. Puckett

Dr. Kathleen M. Puckett spent 23 years as an FBI Special Agent, where she was primarily involved in the investigation and analysis of cases involving foreign counterintelligence and domestic and international terrorism. In the mid 1970s, Kathleen was an officer in the Office of Special Investigations in the U.S. Air Force, where she acquired an early knack for investigations of Soviet and East Bloc espionage. When she left the Air Force, she was heavily recruited by both the FBI and the CIA. By the mid 1980s she had learned Russian and was working against Soviet Intelligence in the San Francisco Division of the FBI. Between 1988 and 1994 she was a principal in “Project Slammer,” an interagency espionage study that involved extensive interviews of Americans convicted of espionage. In 1993 she became a founding member of the FBI National Security Division’s Behavioral Analysis Program (BAP), and was an operational and behavioral consultant to numerous high profile counterintelligence and counterterrorism investigations throughout the United States. Between 1994 and 1998 she was the primary behavioral expert during the UNABOM investigation. She assisted FBI Inspector Terry Turchie in the investigation of Eric Rudolph in North Carolina in 1998, and received the Attorney General’s Award for Distinguished Service the same year. In she completed a research internship that led to the production of a dissertation concerning the prediction of violence and the conferring of a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology. In 2001 Dr. Puckett conducted a multi-jurisdictional risk assessment study concerning lone domestic terrorists including Theodore Kaczynski, Timothy McVeigh and Eric Rudolph for the Counterterrorism Division of the FBI. From 2001 to 2007, Dr. Puckett served as the Deputy Senior Counterintelligence Officer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for the University of California, under contract to the U.S. Department of Energy. Specialties: Dr. Puckett provides behavioral threat assessment consultation to international corporations and governmental security agencies, and is a law enforcement consultant to the Program of Psychiatry and the Law at the University of California at San Francisco. She is a frequent presenter at law enforcement and mental health community forums on the psychology of terrorism, as well as her own unique findings on what makes America’s most complicated adversaries tick.

Experience

1. Partner

   Tk Associates, Llc

   Feb 2007 — Present · San Francisco, CA, US

   TK Associates, LLC is a San Francisco Bay Area based firm that provides unparalleled expertise and experience in dealing with the most difficult leadership and management issues of our time. The team that solved the most challenging cases of domestic terrorism in the history of the FBI now applies their innovative and uniquely effective perspective to “solving the unsolvable” problems confronted today by law enforcement, government and the corporate world.

Education

• Professional School of Psychology

  Doctor of Philosphy (Ph.D)

  1990 — 2000

• Professional School of Psychology

  Master of Arts

  1988 — 2000

• University of California, Santa Barbara

  Bachelor of Arts

  1968 — 1972