J. Larry Cunningham - Counter-Terrorism
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J. Lawrence Cunningham, a distinguished retired United States Secret Service agent, has broad experience in all aspects of executive protection, investigations, training and facility security. During his 20-year career with the USSS, Mr. Cunningham served five years with the Presidential Protective Division at the White House and conducted international security advances for Presidential visits to Canada, China, France, Grenada and Germany. He also coordinated and supervised the security arrangements for visiting dignitaries that included Pope John Paul II, Mikhail Gorbachev, Presidents of the United States, Presidential Candidates and other foreign Heads-of-State. He developed crisis management and emergency contingency plans for law enforcement personnel, motorcade routes, sites, and communications systems.

Mr. Cunningham also developed and prosecuted several domestic and international criminal cases involving telemarketing, computer hacking and high-tech fraud operations. His office developed precedent setting cases involving cellular phone fraud. In these efforts he streamlined the prosecution guidelines and procedures with the District Attorney and the U. S. Attorney.

Mr. Cunningham is an innovative trainer. While assigned to the USSS training division he helped develop the Secret Service mandatory fitness program, that subsequently has been adopted by numerous federal and local law enforcement agencies. Mr. Cunningham is an instructor in the U.S. State Department’s Anti-Terrorism Assistance Training Program and helps teach Senior Crisis Management course to foreign government security officials. Mr. Cunningham developed and implemented the dignitary security plan for the Stanford World Cup Soccer Venue in 1994. His duties encompassed the coordination of emergency training exercises interfacing law enforcement entities with Department of Defense officials and administering post orders and managing over 350 security personnel.

Mr. Cunningham provides security management services to a number of organizations and is sought for his knowledge of white-collar crime and risk assessments. He regularly makes presentations on a wide variety of subjects including cellular fraud, executive protection, and police fitness and stress management. He has conducted security surveys and vulnerability assessments at a number of domestic and foreign airports and developed and implemented security coordinator programs, including the creation of training manuals and a wide range of instructional programs. Additionally, he has made joint presentations to FAA officials regarding the establishment of security standards exceeding the Federal Aviation Regulations on behalf of various airport service clients. He has published related articles in the Security Management magazine for the American Society for Industrial Security.

Mr. Cunningham has prepared Responses for Proposals addressing stringent security protocols in a variety of areas to include the manufacture of Currency Paper solicited by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Mr. Cunningham speaks and writes German