# Hogan's Alley **Entity class:** Federal training facility **Organization:** [[wiki/Federal Bureau of Investigation|Federal Bureau of Investigation]] **Location:** FBI Academy, Quantico, Virginia ## Definition **Hogan's Alley** is the FBI's mock town for practical agent training. The Bureau says it was built with help from Hollywood set designers and uses actors portraying criminals, victims, and bystanders while trainees gather intelligence, process evidence, make decisions, and conduct arrests inside a manufactured but responsive environment. ## Significance Hogan's Alley is a physical demonstration of the [[wiki/Producer Function|producer function]]: a set, supporting cast, props, institutional back region, and controlled stream of events combine to produce consequential human context for trainees who do not control the whole world around them. ## Relationships - **operated by:** [[wiki/Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]]. - **method:** [[wiki/Scenario-Based Training|Scenario-Based Training]]. - **labor:** [[wiki/Role Player (Intelligence Training)|Role Players]] and Hollywood set designers. - **unresolved personnel question:** [[wiki/Hogan’s Alley set designers|Hogan’s Alley set designers]]. - **source:** [[research/The Producer Function in Intelligence Tradecraft and Dramaturgy|The Producer Function in Intelligence Tradecraft and Dramaturgy]]. ## Sources / Provenance - [FBI — Hogan's Alley Turns 30](https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/hogans-alley-turns-30) - [FBI — Tactical/Hogan's Alley](https://www.fbi.gov/how-we-investigate/hogans-alley)