Michele Rigby Assad | Former Intelligence officer in the CIA, International Security Consultant, Author of Breaking Cover and Keynote Speaker

Michele Rigby Assad

Former Intelligence officer in the CIA, International Security Consultant, Author of Breaking Cover and Keynote Speaker

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$20,000
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Merritt Island (Near Orlando), FL

Michele Rigby Assad
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Breaking Coverby Michele Rigby Assad

Breaking Cover

by Michele Rigby Assad
A real-life, can't-put-down spy memoir.
The CIA is looking for walking contradictions. Recruiters seek out potential agents who can keep a secret yet pull classified information out of others; who love their country but are willing to leave it behind for dangerous places; who live double lives, but can be trusted with some of the nation's most highly sensitive tasks.

Michele Rigby Assad was one of those people.

As a CIA agent and a counterterrorism expert, Michele soon found that working undercover was an all-encompassing job. The threats were real; the assignments perilous. Michele spent over a decade in the agency--a woman leading some of the most highly skilled operatives on the planet, secretly serving in some of the most treacherous areas of the Middle East, and at risk as a target for ISIS. But deep inside, Michele wondered: Could she really do this job? Had she misunderstood what she thought was God's calling on her life? Did she have what it would take to survive?

The answer came when Michele faced her ultimate mission, one with others' lives on the line--and it turned out to have been the plan for her all along. In Breaking Cover, Michele has at last been cleared to drop cover and tell her story: one of life-or-death stakes; of defeating incredible odds; and most of all, of discovering a faith greater than all her fears.

Michele Rigby Assad
Featured Keynote Programs

God's Looking for the Ordinary

This is a presentation on Breaking Cover in which Michele discusses how ordinary people can do extraordinary things when their faith in God is greater than their fear. From small town Central FL, to the frontlines of the war on terror, Michele shows how critical it is to trust God more than you trust yourself. When you place your faith fully in him, He'll take you to places you didn't even know existed.

Defying ISIS

The story of how a small group of committed Christians heeded the voice of God, and in months saved persecuted Christians from ISIS in Northern Iraq. Michele’s and her husband, Joseph’s counterterrorism, counterintelligence and operational skills honed in the CIA were put to use in the service of others after they left their 10 year careers in the agency. This event was covered by ABC’s 20/20 in an hour long special about the evacuation of 149 people from Northern Iraq to Slovakia. (December 2015)

Christian Persecution and the Roots of Terrorism

This is about Michele’s husband’s life story of being a persecuted Christian in the Middle East and how God is now using that experience to rescue persecuted Christians fleeing ISIS in Iraq and Syria. (Her husband, Joseph has an amazing story of how God brought him out of a bad situation.  He grew up in Assiout, which at that time, was the center of Islamic fundamentalism in the Middle East. The roots of al-Qa’ida emerged from Assiout, and many of Joseph’s classmates were terrorists. Talk about bullying in school—that’s a whole other kind of bullying!) 

The Courage to Find Your Calling

Michele uses the story of how she found and figured out her calling to help others do the same. How do you determine which direction to move in? How do you make decisions about your future? These are the things no one tells you about finding your way in life—i.e. the blueprints for God’s calling on your life are in your DNA. God made you a specific way to carry out very specific purposes in your life.  We are tools and each tool is made for specific tasks. And He will give us exactly what we need to make decisions, even if it’s just the next step and not the entire 5-year plan laid out in front of us.

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