The National Counterintelligence (CI) Strategy frames, key priorities for the U.S. government, consist of five objectives the Counterintelligence community must accomplish. The five objects consist of: identify, detect, exploit, disrupt and neutralize Foreign Intelligence Entity (FIE) and the insider threats. Further, the CI community must safeguard the United States interests, to include American interest abroad and cyberspace. 1
Additionally, the CI community must be able to identify key indicators of FIE intentions, targeting, capabilities, and assets available. Identifying those criteria the intelligence community will gain an understanding of the threat. 2 Once a threat has been identified and detected, the intelligence community considers
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Furthermore, each agency provides a unique program that promotes coordination between agencies. For example, the FBI shares unclassified information with local businesses on matters of national security issues. The DEA works closely with local law enforcement in matters of drug activities. Consequently, no agency within the fusion center has the capability to gather and analyze information that can integrate both international and national intelligence information.7
In short, the effectiveness of a fusion center realizes on the capability of a database that can store and combine information from all intelligence agencies. The goal of a fusion center is to have a collaborative workspace that “would allow the various agencies to participate actively in the analytical process.”8 Each agency conducting intelligence gathering needs the capability to gather, analyze, and disseminate information
The pros of electronic surveillance are extensive. The ability for agents of the United States Intelligence Community (IC) to intercept and process communications and information from foreign powers, agents of foreign powers, international terrorist organizations, and others who seek to engage in activities with such groups, provides the ...
Fusion centers are easily described by their name. They are a collaboration between several different agencies that combine to form one united Criminal Justice front against terrorism. All agencies, such as the FBI, Department of Homeland Security(DHS) and local police work together by analyzing and gathering potential information on threats and possible terrorist attacks against the United States. They also serve as a sort of hub to pass out information needed to other agencies. The making of Fusion Centers help make local law enforcements more capable in responding and fighting terror threats.
The Department of Homeland Security faces challenges of failure to coordinate and cooperate in the latest fight against computer crimes as well as more general intelligence-gathering operations. (...
USCYBERCOM unifies the command of the cyberspace efforts and units of the United States military. The United States Department of Defense also has outlined the principles that form its cyber defense strategy, building and maintaining ready forces and capabilities to conduct cyberspace operations, defend the DoD information network, secure DoD data, and mitigate risks to DoD missions. Be prepared to defend the U.S. homeland and U.S. vital interests from disruptive or destructive cyberattacks of significant consequence. Build and maintain viable cyber options and plan to use those options to control conflict escalation and to shape the conflict environments at all stages. Build and maintain robust international alliances and partnerships to deter shared threats and increase international security and stability. The five pillars of cyber security, confidentiality, integrity, availability, non-repudiation, and authentication. Protecting information from disclosure to unauthorized individuals, systems or entities, Protect information, systems, and services from unauthorized modification or destruction, Timely, reliable access to data and information services by authorized users, the ability to correlate a recorded action with its originating individual or entity, and the ability to verify the identity of an individual or entity
The CIA is pretty important to this country, yet some people don’t know what it does. The CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) is a government agency that as Wikipedia says, “tasked with gathering, processing and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence (HUMINT).” They don’t work much with domestic like the FBI; they do most of their work overseas. It has different divisions such as Analysis, Operations, Support, and Science and Technology (Wikipedia."Central Intelligence Agency"). They have had successful operations for instance locating Osama Bin Laden and arrest of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (Monroe et al.). There also some secret operations that have occurred, such as Operation CHAOS, Phoenix Program, and Muammar al-Qaddafi to name a few (Jason). When people find out about these operations it causes them to question events in history that
The United States has endured numerous security breaches and high security threats over the past two decades. After the attacks on 9/11, the office of Intelligence became a vital source in retrieving sensitive data and tracking down potential terrorists and their networks which could pose a threat to the American people and then forwarding that vital information to the Department of Homeland Security and other government agencies. Intelligence became a key role in “assessing threats to critical American infrastructures, bio-and nuclear terrorism, pandemic diseases, threats to the borders to the nation, and radicalization within American society” (Randol, 2009, p. 7). The sharing of homeland security intelligence has become a precedence for Congress and the government. Our nation must be one step ahead of any potential terrorists that want to harm our turf. Within this text the capabilities and limitations of both domestic and foreign intelligence in supporting homeland security efforts will be explained;
The National Security Act of 1947 created the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). President Truman’s vision of the CIA was a peacetime intelligence agency that provided early warnings in the event of an attack. After President Truman signed the National Security Act of 1947, a loophole was found. The National Security Act “instructed the CIA to correlate, evaluate, and disseminate intelligence and to perform ‘other functions and duties related to intelligence affecting the national security’ ” (Weiner 2007). The CIA used this wording of ‘other functions’ to conduct secret operations overseas and to practice cloak and dagger methods in obtaining intelligence. Since its establishment over sixty years ago, the CIA’s implementation of cloak and dagger intelligence gathering has evolved to developing a componen...
Everyone knows of the mistreatment and horrors of the Holocaust, but how much do we know about the monsters behind them? The Gestapo was Nazi Germany’s secret police that had a unique yet powerful role in the Final Solution. They were known for their harsh torture tactics and the willingness to kill and torture whoever they needed to get what they wanted. Jews and other targeted groups of people were stricken with the fear and worry of the Gestapo coming to their door. The Gestapo was the definitely the most feared police force in Germany.
The U.S. Police Departments needed a more efficient way to share information across the geographic locations to help prevent and response to crimes faster. After the 9/11, fusion center, enhance their security operations to collect better intelligence. The fusion centers are regional and very efficient when it comes to delivering information to local governments. Bart Johnson started as a law enforcement 32 years ago and seen many changes, which occurred in the fusion center for police department. According to (Roberts, 2011), Johnson says “With better intelligence, you can focus resources where they are needed most,” (para. 3).
Intelligence collection and apprehension of criminals have occurred for many years; however, with the exception of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, these actions were performed by different organizations. Nonetheless, roles and responsibilities have changed since the attacks on September 11, 2001. Intelligence-led policing and the National Criminal Intelligence Sharing program were incorporated, and fusion centers were established to help gather intelligence from different levels of the government. Although law enforcement at the local, state, and tribal levels aid in intelligence collection, it is important to ensure that intelligence gathered to protect national security and law enforcement intelligence are kept separately. Even though law enforcement operations can strengthen intelligence operations and vice versa, complications can arise when the two actions are combined. Government agencies must also ensure that sensitive and secret information does not leak or is not compromised when sharing intelligence. Therefore the purpose is to describe intelligence and law enforcement operations, discuss the expectations of prevention and punishment, and discuss the benefits and consequences of combining law enforcement and intelligence operations.
Emerson Marcikic Mrs. Vandeguchte Honors English 10B 13 May 2024 Symbolism Essay H.G. Wells once said, “There's truth you have to grow into”. This relates to how being a child is all about having fun, but learning the reality of the world requires maturity. Jem and Scout Finch, the children of Atticus Finch, lived in Maycomb, Alabama in the nineteen-thirties during the Great Depression. The Finch children and their friend Dill become obsessed with Boo Radley, who has been trapped in a mysterious house for years. As they grow older, the children learn that there are bigger issues than Boo Radley: issues like racism.
United Sttes. Central Intelligence. Operations. By Richard Helms. United States Government. 14 Apr. 2013 .
The Central Intelligence Agency’s main responsibility is stated in its Vision statement: “We will provide knowledge and take action to ensure the national security of the United States and the preservation of American life and ideals” (www.cia.gov). The CIA’s job is to provide pertinent, timely, and un-biased foreign intelligence. They also act as an unseen force by conducting undercover action as ordered by the President in order to preempt threats or achieve objectives of the United States. The CIA is the only intelligence organization that is not subject to cabinet prerogative, making it reliable in it is unbiased in its reports, because it has no political agenda. There are six main types of intelligence by which the CIA collects information. Human intelligence (HUMINT) is information gathered by field operatives through overt and covert techniques (www.cia.gov). Communications intelligence (COMINT) is acquired from intercepted foreign communications (www.cia.go...
The art of Counter Intelligence is a framework of a spy network whose purpose of existence is to obtain intelligence data for analysis pertaining to national security . This structure and purpose of this paper is to conduit two contrasting objectives to the Counter Intelligence framework. Counter Intelligence of national government against national government and counter intelligence of citizenry against government are the objectives to be examined. The purpose of the examining these two contrasting objectives is to render whether counter intelligence measures are inherently damaging to either the citizenry of a national government or damaging to the national government(s).
The modern Military Intelligence professional needs to be an expert in his trade. Core competencies include commanding and controlling Military Intelligence Soldiers and combined armed forces during combat and intelligence gathering operations. Additionally, an MI officer must be able to coordinate employment of Military Intelligence Soldiers at all levels of command, from platoon to battalion and higher in U.S. and multinational operations. Further, an MI officer needs to be competent in all levels of intelligence gathering, particularly if they are an All-Source Intelligence Officer (35D). These fields include Imagery Intelligence (IMINT), Human Intelligence (HUMINT), Signals Intelligence (SIGINT), among many other types and disciplines of intelligence work. Lastly, an officer must be technically competent in what his or her soldiers do.