Michael Coyne is a career counterintelligence analyst, recently retired from the Federal Bureau of Investigation.  He started his federal service in 1990 as a Presidential Management Intern (now Fellow) working on budget formulation and justification for FBI, including the supplemental funding request for resources during the first Persian Gulf War.  He started his intelligence career in 1992, assigned to a mix of strategic and tactical counterintelligence analysis projects for several functional issues and geographic regions as the FBI assessed the post-Cold War foreign intelligence threat.  In 2006, he went on a Joint Duty Assignment as the first-ever FBI analyst to be the National Counterintelligence Officer for the Middle East and South Asia at what is now the National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC).

As an NCIO, he was responsible for integrating IC collection and analysis efforts through a series of interagency exchanges which yielded well-received Sense of the CI Community reports on specific country threats.  From 2008 to 2019, he was selected as the FBI’s first Senior National Intelligence Officer for Counterintelligence, where he worked with FBI and CI Community counterparts to assess and respond to a growing array of intelligence threats.  From 2019 to 2022, he was the first FBI analyst selected to be a National Intelligence Officer in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s National Intelligence Council (NIC).  At the NIC, he led a team providing high-level, IC-coordinated analyses for CI Community, broader IC, and policymaker customers.  From 2022 until retiring in December 2024, he was the first-ever Chief of the National Counterintelligence Management Group and Deputy National Intelligence Manager for Counterintelligence at NCSC.  There, he led a large team in integrating CI Community collection, analysis, priorities, resource, and warning efforts.

He is a proud graduate of the International Relations and History programs at Michigan State University (1988, Go Green!) and is still coping with the reality that he completed his Master’s in Political Science at the University of Michigan (1990).

He is a very lucky husband and proud father of three, all of whom do their level best to keep him humble.