...security. In this paper, we are going to look at three countries that have valid resources in intelligence to be a major threat to the United States. China is a huge threat based on the country’s intelligence resources in HUMINT, SIGINT, and cyber capabilities. Iran’s HUMINT and MASINT intelligence collection methods are highly capable of being a number one contender against the United States. Lastly, Russia has a deep history in HUMINT intelligence with successful espionage and ELINT capabilities that no other European country has used before. These three countries are highly skilled and capable to be a major threat to the world. So which country’s intelligence capabilities is the number one threat? CHINA, IRAN, or RUSSIA? China, Iran and Russia are three countries that are equally capable to be a threat to U.S. national security. As stated above, each country is highly skilled in their respective intelligence collection method. The Chinese Spy Agency is an extremely effective organization that is comprised of twelve different bureaus of intelligence collection. Each bureau collects intelligence from HUMINT, SIGINT, cyber, and so on. China’s HUMINT collection is considered number one in the world, due to the fact that their agents never get caught. Iran’s HUMINT counterpart consists of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps that is not just based in Iran, but also in Syria, Afghanistan, and the United States. These guards are extremely capable in collecting intelligence and transferring...
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...activities will be analyzed. This comprehensive documentation will also define the circumstances surrounding the movement and how it touches on the PLF and how HUMINT will function in contrast to organization in question under these functioning factors: Political, Military, Economy, Social, Information, Infrastructure, Physical environment and Time. Moreover, this research sprouted from a number of online journals, websites and books published that express their standpoint and involvement based opinions on the PLF. At the very end of this paper you will have a clear comprehension into how the PLF was formed as a supplementary of the Palestinian Liberation Organization PLO, how it dictated and directed politics in their region and how HUMINT would respond in terms of operations to the effects of those underlying factors. The Palestinian Liberation FrontThe actuality of the Palestinian Liberation Front cannot be vehemently depicted in history without including the past activities of the Palestinian Liberation Organization PLO. How the movement got a slot in the political field of Arab-Israeli relations remains a mystery up to present date. Their methods and philosophies are still seen as ferocious and dangerous by most refined and broad-minded societal settings. How will these limitations impede HUMINT activities? Looking into the circumstances in which they live and how it touches on their...
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...of intelligence gathering. There is no doubt that China has increased their ability to gather intelligence in its neighboring countries and the world for that matter. The PRC’s second strongest intelligence gathering technique is the HUMINT technique. According to John Pike, “China has been extremely aggressive in its HUMINT collection activities in the United States. The PRC has more than 2,600 diplomatic and commercial offices in the United States. A substantial percentage of these personnel are actively involved in collecting intelligence. More than 40,000 students from the PRC also attend schools in the United States, and many of these students have been tasked to collect information from the Chinese government. In addition to these personnel, over 25,000 Chinese visit the United States each year as members of official delegations, and an additional 20,000 Chinese immigrants to the United States annually” (Pike 1997, 1). Therefore, due to the sheer number of potential HUMINT gatherers in and around the United States, I am categorizing their HUMINT discipline as capable. However, I have assessed them as capable rather than highly capable, because sheer numbers do not mean effectiveness. The ability still comes down to proficiency and if HUMINT gatherers are not properly trained than the intelligence they gathered may not be proper or relevant. The PRC’s strongest gathering technique is their ability to conduct CYBER intelligence collection and their overall ability to hack...
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...Alexandria Office located at 5453 Richmond Highway. Phoenix prides itself on the training services that are offered to their customers, their specialty is in Human Intelligence (HUMINT). Mission Statement Provide the highest quality intelligence-related training, augmentation support and specialized consultative and research/studies services to our government and private sector customers. Major Services PCG will provide off-the-shelf, or customized off-the-shelf training to meet specific agency needs related to security/intelligence management, organizational, and security/intelligence services, such as, but not limited to: • Security team building • Practical exercises • Trade show elicitation skills • Intelligence team building • Platform instruction • Security techniques • Elicitation techniques • Quality management • Security elicitation techniques • Strategic planning • Counterintelligence techniques • Security elicitation techniques • Training manuals • Presentation charts Here are some of the courses offered that focuses on their commitment to HUMINT Training: |Ten Week Courses |Five Week Courses |Four Week Courses | |Field Collection |Battlefield HUMINT Collection |Strategic Debriefing Advanced...
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...could have increased his pressure on the resistance currently on the island to prevent them from helping the invasion force. Additionally, he could have interrogated captured resistance fighters and known about the specifics of the invasion. Captured communication equipment could also have been used to access the invasion. Also, with use of the Soviet support they could have intercepted the communications between the resistance and the invading force and Castro’s forces could still be waiting for them. Some key assumptions here are the Soviets had the ability to intercept the communications and willing to provide it to Castro. Another would be his command and control ability of his forces. The last would be the apprehension of CIA HUMINT sources or contacts within the...
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...PROGRESS ASSIGNMENT #3 Maurice E. Simmons INTL 303: Introduction to Intelligence 28 December 2014 American Military University Many of the intelligence community’s (IC) greatest triumphs can be traced back to the use of multiple intelligence methods. As Clark so eloquently stated, “The game of intelligence collection is a multidisciplinary endeavor.” Employment of multiple platforms, sensors, and techniques provides advantages for the analyst to produce valuable strategic intelligence. Collaborative intelligence not only creates accurate and timely information, collaborative intelligence can also reduce wasteful endeavors. For example, a Congressional directed staff committee recently found the IC must increase collaboration among its intelligence systems. On the other hand, information based on a single source is deficient, and does not produce qualitative assessments. According to Anissa Frini, “Stovepiping keeps the output of different collection systems separated from one another and thus, it prevents one discipline from cross-checking another.” The lack of collaborated intelligence can lead to erroneous reporting and deception by the adversary. In order for policymakers to formulate strategic plans, information or rather intelligence gathered must have a holistic and integrated perspective. This paper will begin by highlighting the value of strategic intelligence to policymakers and leadership, the advantages of employing multiple intelligence methods,...
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...United States for the USSR and being paid a total of $4.6 billion for his treason. Ames‘ father had worked for the CIA during Aldrichs‘ childhood in Burma, where Aldrich spent most of his teenage years. In 1959 Aldrich Ames enrolled for a History major at George Washington University in Virginia from which he eventually graduated in 1967. During the time of his studies his father managed to give him the opportunity to work a part time job in the CIA. After his graduation he continues working for the CIA, now as a full time careerist. After CIA training he was assinged to Ankara, Turkey with his main task being to recruit new HUMINT Agents, which he was rather unsucessful at accomplishing. After continuous failure at his assigned task, he was re-deployed in 1972 to Langley, Virginia at the CIA Headquarters where he was re-tasked to recruit new Soviet HUMINT Agents. Yet again, being unsucessful of recruiting new sources, he was once again re-assigned to the CIA office in New York City in 1976, ironically tasked to recruit new Soviet informants of the U.N. delegation and Soviet consulate. Although he was still unsucessful in recruiting new Agents, he was exceptionally sucessful at managing those which had offered their service as Double Agents to the United States CIA, to which he became the official liasion as his new duty. In 1981 he was re-assigned to Mexico City, Mexico to which his, as a lobbyist in the U.S. sucessful, wife Nancy refused to accompany him. Ames decided to...
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...information. What type of intelligence(s) functions did they use? Answer: Open Source Intelligence (OSINT). 2. At the beginning of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and present, we (the U.S.) used what type of intelligence function for targeting, mapping, and regional monitoring on the battlefield? Answer: Imagery Intelligence (IMINT). 3. What type of intelligence functions include overt, sensitive, and clandestine activities and the individuals who exploit, control, supervise, or support these sources? Answer: Human Intelligence (HUMINT). 4. Department of Energy's national laboratories are a target of friends and foe because of their emphasis on the development of advanced technologies, many of which have military applications. What type of intelligence function is it? Answer: Technical Intelligence (TECHINT). 5. What type of intelligence is the culmination of the intelligence cycle and incorporates information derived through HUMINT, SIGINT, IMINT, MAS1NT, and OSINT? Answer: All Source Intelligence. 6. Your intelligence analyst told you he is observing a unit that travels to its refueling point the same time and way every day, and he believe you can destroy them with one air strike this time tomorrow. This unit is displaying which OPSEC indictor? Answer: An exposure. 7. Given sufficient data, an analyst can determine an OPSEC indictor in any activity or unit. Over time, analysts attempt to identify and record the profiles of their adversary’s activities or...
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...collecting, processing, exploiting, disseminating and storing intelligence, also referred as the intelligence cycle. Tasking is the first stage of the intelligence cycle. During this stage, one needs to know what are the specific requirements of the intelligence and how it can be satisfied. On the top of the “intelligence chain” the director of national intelligence (DNI) would have to determine what intelligence the intelligence community would need to pursue and the priority of the intelligence based mainly on the preferences of the policy makers. Once determined, the information is passed all the way down the chain to the analysts to prioritize the collection requirements. Collection is divided into four categories: HUMINT, SIGINT, IMINT and MASINT. HUMINT is done by sending out agents to collect information. It could be collecting information through conversation or collecting items of intelligence value. SIGINT is done by intercepting information with a collection equipment. IMINT uses space-based, aerial and ground-based systems to take infrared images. MASINT is the collection of data that describes distinct...
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...While serving as a noncommissioned officer in the United States Army, I was assigned to the S3 Planning & Operations Section for an intelligence battalion. My regularly assigned responsibility was being the Assistant Battalion Training Noncommissioned Officer. However, my duties included the gathering of intelligence from the field, communicating vital information to my superiors, and working within a Tactical Operations Center (TOC) environment. A TOC is a where the commander of a unit can obtain and disseminate vital, real-time intelligence and information. This environment honed my relative competencies and prepared me for my future exploits working in an Emergency Operations Center (EOC). Also, during my tenure as a soldier, I was assigned...
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...drink companies are not. For example, food chains like Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, and KFC only contain Pepsi products, whereas other chains contain Coca-Cola. One major goal of Fizzi Sizzi is to determine what restaurants have either of these products and use the menu, target audience, customer service, location, and operations to determine which direction may be best for our success. The best way to be successful is to mimic success, and as both organizations defy the odds for all of their achievements, we wish to do the same. Yet, it is understood that to become the best and to achieve success, there are certain levels of intelligence that may need to be obtained for the purpose of improving and understanding competition. Human Intelligence (HUMINT), Signals Intelligence (SIGINT), Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT), Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT), Measurement and Signature Intelligence (MASINT), Cyber Intelligence (CYBINT), Financial Intelligence (FININT), and Counterintelligence (CI) can all be used and considered for obtaining specific data from any organization, yet one must take into consideration the kind of data that is most useful. When attempting to obtain intelligence from an organization, it is important to understand the purpose of the action and how the data or information gained can benefit you and your organization. In this case, the intelligence holds two different objectives. One objective is to understand competition, and the other is to combat threats. To understand...
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...The United States has carried out intelligence activities since the days of George Washington, but only since World War II have they been coordinated on a government-wide basis. President .Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed New York lawyer and war hero, William J. Donovan, to become first the Coordinator of Information, and then, after the US entered World War II, head of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in 1942. The OSS – the forerunner to the CIA – had a mandate to collect and analyze strategic information. After World War II, however, the OSS was abolished along with many other war agencies and its functions were transferred to the State and War Departments. It did not take long before President Truman recognized the need for a postwar, centralized intelligence organization. To make a fully functional intelligence office, Truman signed the National Security Act of 1947 establishing the CIA. The National Security Act charged the CIA with coordinating the nation’s intelligence activities and correlating, evaluating and disseminating intelligence affecting national security. On December 17, 2004, President George W. Bush signed the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act which restructured the Intelligence Community by abolishing the position of Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) and Deputy Director of Central Intelligence (DDCI) and creating the position the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (D/CIA). The Act also created the position of Director of...
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...What do you think the enduring strategic and tactical level lessons of OP HUSKY are for the British Army? 'Every soldier must know, before he goes into battle, how the little battle he is to fight fits into the larger picture, and how the success of his fighting will influence the battle as a whole.' Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, KG, GCB, DSO, PC, nicknamed "Monty" and the "Spartan General". This essay will examine a number of lessons learnt from OP HUSKY July 9th 1943 during World War II. Both strategic and tactical examples will be drawn upon in order to relate to current day/ future operations. Prior to the lessons the question requires further explanation to provide greater accuracy within the analysis. The two main areas for development within the question are the terms strategic and tactical. Strategic can be defined as 'relating to the gaining of overall or long-term military advantage'1 Tactical on the other hand can be defined as 'relating to or constituting actions carefully planned to gain a specific military end.'2 The Allied invasion of Sicily, codenamed OP HUSKY, was one of the major campaigns and naval landings of World War II. It began on the night of 9th - 10th July 1943 and was a combination of a large scale amphibious and fairborne operation proceeded by a six weeks of inland combat. The first strategic lesson that can be learnt is the need for co-ordination and integration of all arms and...
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...Regional Slating for Intelligence Military Occupational Specialities A Square Peg in a Square Hole Master Sergeant Paul R Carey CMR 445 Box 231 APO AE 09046 +49 0152 0425 2074 paulrcarey@gmail.com In a May 2015 edition of the Marine Corps times, the acting undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness stated “this is a moment that calls for revolutionary change in the human resources practice of the DoD”. This article, and several other publications, including “Bleeding Talent: How the U.S. Military Mismanages Great Leaders and Why It's Time for a Revolution” by Tim Kane, have long called for change within the military personnel slating system, and have attributed a disturbing loss of talent to this anachronistic human resources system. Nowhere is this more evident than in the intelligence occupational specialities within the Marine Corps, where a lack of technical expertise within its intelligence specialists and counterintelligence/human intelligence fields have made Marine Corps intelligence a well-rounded enterprise, but an enterprise lacking in depth and specialization. To solve this experience shortfall and give commanders the tactical and technical expertise in specific geographic regions, Marines in intelligence military occupational specialities should be exclusively assigned to a geographic region for their career. The Regional Cultural Language and Familiarization (RCLF) program officially stood up in October 2012 through the publication of MARADMIN...
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...the civilian on the battlefield [COB] lives, Mission or the purpose of the COB, priority intelligence requirement [PIR] related questions, Stuff- where did event occur, any documents/weapons found on the individual, is he from this town/village/area/or is he showing up for the first time, etc). 2. Conduct traffic control point (TCP) Screening (Specific questions listed in the TQ Smart Card) of COBs using basic questions: Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How. 3. Accurately and timely report information gathered during JUMPS and TCP Screening and ensure you use as a reference the Indicators of Counter-Intelligence (CI) and Human Intelligence (HUMINT) interest (provided on TQ Card), using the SALUTE (size, activity, location, unit, time, equipment) report format. 4. Submit reports to either your chain of command, S2 or an attached Tactical HUMINT Team (THT). Performance Steps Tactical Questioning (TQ) is expedient initial questioning for information of immediate tactical value. TQ is generally performed by members of patrols, but can be done by any 000 personnel. 1. Be aware of conditions such asa. Armed Elements. (1) Location offactional force. (2) Location of minefields. (3) Location of any other potential threats. b. Dwellings. (1) Condition of the roofs, doors, and windows. (2) Condition of power lines, water, and sanitation. c. Infrastructure. (1) Condition of roads and bridges. (2) Presence of functioning stores, service stations etc. (3) Availability and condition of crops and...
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