Our Founder
Ed Ciriello, Intelligence Agent, Private Investigator, and Founder
Welcome to the exciting and rewarding world of the private investigator. You are about to enter an incredible new world. A world of challenge, satisfaction and prestige. There is nothing available anywhere at any price to equal what you are about to learn from our online-training correspondence school. Read this information carefully. It will change your life.
Meet Your Instructor
Ed Ciriello's long, illustrious career has spanned over 50 years as a private investigator and intelligence agent. Known as the "Dean of Detectives", he is the most respected leading instructor in the country today. As Founder and President of the Global School of Investigations online-training correspondence school, he has made his knowledge and expertise available to you. Ed will be your personal mentor while you learn everything you need to be a private investigator.
Ed took his first course in "how to become a detective" at 14, from a correspondence school. At 16, in 1951, he joined the US Army Security Agency, where he conducted his first undercover investigation during basic training. After his discharge, he enlisted in the US Navy as an agent of the Office of Naval Intelligence, serving with distinction in Korea, Cuba and Italy. After leaving the USN he began his private investigator career in New York City. By 1957 he was in Chicago, IL working for the Pinkerton's National Detective Agency, rising quickly from undercover agent to assistant manager. He was still under contract to the Central Intelligence Agency which led to his return to that service in Vietnam, in 1965.
Six years later, under a VC death threat he escaped from Saigon and surfaced in Iran as an intelligence advisor and instructor to the Shah's secret police. In 1973 he wrote his now famous investigator's training manual. He also created his own detective agency, Global Investigations, as well as this correspondence school, The Global School of Investigation. In 1975 he became a certified law enforcement teacher by the Nevada Board of Education. He continued both careers, working undercover in Saudi Arabia during Desert Storm, and returning a kidnapped child from Moscow, in 1999.
With his many TV appearances (ABC, NBC, CNN, etc.) as well as the subject of a best-selling novel, "The Honourable Schoolboy," by John LeCarre, his fame has lifted him from needed obscurity to the pinnacle of public recognition. Mickey Spillane, creater of the Mike Hammer detective novels and TV series said, "Your book, The Reluctant Warrior is one hell of a read."
In a recent ABC-TV 20/20 interview he was asked when he plans to retire. His answer was pure Ciriello. "Most people retire from work to do something they like. I have been honored and fortunate enough to do something I truly love. If I were to retire I guess I'd have to go to work! My trench coat may be torn and my dagger bent but I will continue to do what I have done, and loved, for as long as I can."
"I promise you the most practical, enjoyable, fact-filled learning experience of your life. And I will guide you every step of the way. Been there, done that. Maybe someday you will replace me and carry on my life's work. With my name on it, you know it has to be good."
Thanks for your interest,
Ed Ciriello
Private Investigator
Founder of The Global School of Investigation
