Larry C. Johnson - Security
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Larry C. Johnson heads the Palisades Security Consulting team's counter-terrorism/security group.  He is a recognized authority on terrorism, handles physical security, corporate due diligence, intellectual property, and crisis management projects.
 
Since founding BERG Associates in 1998, Mr. Johnson has conducted investigations in product counterfeiting and money laundering in Latin America and the Caribbean.  He has directed forensic audits of businesses allegedly involved with money laundering.  He regularly briefs on terrorism in the U.S. State Department's Senior Crisis Management Seminar for foreign governments and helps design terrorist war games for the U.S. Department of Defense. 
 
Mr. Johnson routinely analyzes terrorist incidents for TV, radio, and print, including the Jim Lehrer News Hour, CNN, National Public Radio, ABC’s Nightline, NBC, the New York Times, and the BBC. Mr. Johnson has authored several articles for publications, including Security Management Magazine ,the New York Times , and The Wall Street Journal . He has lectured on terrorism and aviation security around the world, including the Center for Research and Strategic Studies at the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, France.  He represented the U.S. Government at the July 1996 OSCE Terrorism Conference in Vienna, Austria.  Mr. Johnson also analyzed the U.S. Government’s databases on chemical and biological weapons in 1996.  
 
From 1989 until October 1993, Larry Johnson served as a Deputy Director in the U.S. State Department’s Office of Counter Terrorism, where he managed crisis response operations for terrorist incidents in Lebanon, Asia, Central America, the Caribbean, the Persian Gulf, and Europe. He also helped organize and direct the US Government’s debriefing of US citizens held in Kuwait and Iraq, which provided vital intelligence on Iraqi operations following the 1990 invasion of Kuwait.
 
Mr. Johnson’s expertise includes aviation and maritime security. He participated in the investigation of the terrorist bombing of Pan Am 103 and directed crisis management operations that resolved several hijackings.  Under Mr. Johnson’s leadership the U.S. airlines and pilots agreed to match the US Government’s two million-dollar reward. Mr. Johnson also supervised the multi-million dollar U.S. Anti-Terrorism Assistance Training Program, which provided training to more than 15,000 security officials from over 70 nations.
 
From 1985 through September 1989 Mr. Johnson worked for the Central Intelligence Agency. During his distinguished career, he received training in paramilitary operations, worked in the Directorate of Operations, served in the CIA’s Operation’s Center, and established himself as a prolific analyst in the Directorate of Intelligence. In his final year with the CIA he received two Exceptional Performance Awards.
 
Mr. Johnson is a member of the American Society for Industrial Security. He taught at The American University’s School of International Service (1979-1983) while working on a Ph.D. in political science.  He has a M.S. degree in Community Development from the University of Missouri (1978), where he also received his B.S. degree in Sociology, graduating Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa in 1976.