Paul M. Joyal has more than 45 years of experience in security and intelligence, international affairs, with special concentration in Russia and the former Soviet Republics.
He served 10 years in the United States Government with the US Capitol Police and was the chief investigator of the US Capitol Bombing of 1983. In that capacity he identified a Congressional staff member linked to the terrorist’s organization that bombed the US Capitol. He then was asked to become director of security and chief counterintelligence officer for the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) from 1983-1989 under Senator Goldwater. There he successfully thwarted a Soviet KGB attempt to cultivate a SSCI staffer, transition another into a position outside the Committee for failure to comply with security requirements. He identified a Member of the Committee who leaked Committee Sensitive material to the press and later exposed the attempt of a Senator to remove Chairman Boren from his position in a Senatorial coup for his own political Presidential ambitions.
After the Committee he founded his Security Company Integer and was involved in a number of government analytic projects. was a lead contract analyst of “Project Slammer”. This was an Intelligence Community (IC Staff) study based on interviews of convicted former US government employees for espionage. The study was conducted to recommend improvements in the background investigation process for access to Sensitive Compartment Information (SCI). He also participated in US Defense Department working group on analyzing seized records regarding Iraqi weapons of mass destruction front company acquisition networks and other projects.
Paul has been active in Russia and Georgia since 1991. He published for ten years the Daily Report on Russia for the Soviet Republics, a business intelligence newsletter on Political, Business and Economic affairs in the former Soviet space. He consulted with many fortune 100 countries including AT&T, Merck and Pratt Whitney, etc. He was appointed Georgia’s first lobbyist in the United States. He also served as advisor to the Minister of Defense and the National Security Advisor. He was appointed expert advisor for the Security and Defense Committee of the Georgian Parliament. He worked on Georgia’s original NATO membership proposal and obtained US Congressional funding for the first transfer of US significant military equipment, ten US military helicopters (Iroquois-Huey’s) to the Ministry of Defense. He was advisor to the Georgian International Pipeline company and instrumental in obtaining American support for the Early Oil and BTC pipelines. Additionally, he obtained financial support from the US Congress to modernize the Georgian Customs agency and the establishment the Georgian Border Guard service, displacing the Russian KGB border guards.
In 2002, Paul was decorated by President Eduard Shevardnadze with Georgia’s highest civilian award, the Order of Honor, for significant contributions to Georgia's independence, security, and integration into the Western community of nations.
In 2003 and 2004, Mr. Joyal was active in Iraq in several private capacities.
Paul remains a frequent commentator on Intelligence, Homeland Security, International Affairs, and the former Soviet Union. He has made numerous radio and television appearances and has written many articles on the topics of Russian and post-Soviet affairs, intelligence, security issues, terrorism, and law enforcement. His media appearances include NBC, ABC, CBS news; CNN, Crossfire; CNBC, The Real Story; Lifeline, C-SPAN; PBS; BBC, World Report; ABC's Nightline; NET, Washington Watch; Worldwise; Freedom's Call and others.
Paul has been featured in television and cable programs: the May 28, 2014, CNBC Kudlow Report “American Greed” on the FBI Zeus Trojan malware case, where he appeared with security expert Prof. Gary Warner; he was featured on the March 2012 NBC Rock Center broadcast on the FBI's Trident Breach international cybercrime takedown, and the award-nominated NBC Dateline program (February 2007), “Who Killed Alexander Litvinenko - Death of a Secret Agent” and NBC Dateline hour long “The Real Blacklist” in 2015 about Paul’s shooting after the Who Killed Alexander Litvinenko Dateline broadcast. He also appears in Netflix’s “Spycraft” series and Curiosity’s “Traitors and Patriots.”
He presented briefings on Cyber Threats and Russian information hybrid warfare: a new form of active measures in Washington, at the Suits and Spooks conferences in DC 2014, and London 2015. In January 2015 he presented to the Cyber Security Institute on Russian Information Warfare and others at five GovSec conferences in Washington DC.
In April 2016, he was the keynote speaker at the BSidesCharm 2016 conference, Baltimore Convention Center on “Russian Cyber Threats and Electronic Warfare”.
His article “Russian Cyber Threats and Information Warfare” which appeared in the Spring issue of inFocus quarterly by the Jewish Policy Council, was selected for the Joint Military
Professional reading series in April 2016 by Lt. General H. R. McMaster, Futures Command. He additionally published “Cybercrime: Russian Tools to Infiltrate, Subvert, and Control” inFOCUS Fall 2007 that focused on Russian operations in Ukraine.
He presented a briefing on the history of Russian Active Measures and evolution of Information Warfare at the two Miami area joint federal and state half day education sessions in 2019 and 2020 as well as US Army’s Asymmetric Warfare Headquarters in April 2021.
Paul was recognized, along with Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey and NYPD Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly, by the Respect for Law Alliance of NYC as one of the principal leadership awardees of the Golden Eagle Award, “Defender of Counterintelligence and Homeland Security.” In 2011 was recipient of the Linda Franklin National Achievement Award, the FBI’s National InfraGard’s highest honor where he served 6 years on its National Board of Directors and previously as the Maryland President.
He is currently finishing a book, along with Chris Monday, on the Soviet/Russian Bioweapons Conspiracy, charting the history of this disinformation myth from the 1950s to the present, most notably regarding Ukraine and Russian domestic propaganda.
Paul holds a master’s degree in international relations from The Catholic University of America.
He is currently a partner at LCDM Tech that is deeply involved in Ukraine supporting the military with add on cutting edge technologies for indigenously produced Ukrainian UAV’s. LCDM Tech is a veteran owner company of special operators who specialize in next general warfare architecture.
Paul has now founded CybrCi Productions and Services to continue his security, cyber and counterintelligence advisory. He continues to work with Ukraine Hero’s Group, Documentary division. He was one of the principle narrators in their award winning documentary CyberWar 2022.
