CRIM 310 Chapter 7 – Flashcards

As defined in Executive Order 12333, Counterintelligence is information gathered and activities conducted to identify, deceive, exploit, disrupt, or protect against espionage, other intelligence activities, sabotage, or assassinations conducted for or on behalf of foreign powers, organizations, or persons, or their agents, or international terrorist organizations or activities.

- Defensive - Activities designed to keep adversaries from penetrating your service - Offensive - Activities designed to penetrate your adversary's service - Collection - Obtain national security-related information from your sources - CI is one of the most difficult topics to define

- U.S. Military Capabilities - U.S. Foreign Policy - High Technology - Government workers with secret clearances - Example: Ana Belen Montes - DOB 2/28/1957 Arrested 2001 DIA Analyst Spied for Cuba for 17 years 25 years in prison (no parole)

- The Process - The Application - The Interview - The Test - The Background Investigation - CARLA and FAB - The Polygraph - Lifestyle Polygraph (personal behavior) - Counterintelligence Polygraph (Foreign contacts, sleeper agent, handling of classified information)

- (1) IDENTIFY TARGET - Who are the bad guys? -Never Ask that - Where are they located? - How can I get access to them/their activities? - Who can help me to get information about them? - (2) PENETRATE TARGET - Human - Technical means

- (3) NEUTRALIZE TARGET - Arrest - PNG (Persona Non Grata) - Interview - Drone attack - (4) EXPLOIT SUCCESS - Give media briefing - Use example to keep others in U.S. government agencies from spying

- Need to know vs. responsibility to provide - Classification of Information - Sleeper Agents - Double Agents - Mole - Leaks - National Security Letters - Obtain financial data - Form of administrative subpoena - Not subject to judicial review - Come under a gag order - Have greatly expanded since 2001 - Wilderness of Mirrors - Damage Assessment - Graymail (as opposed to blackmail)

- Is a spy who is discovered working in the U.S. Government a counterintelligence success or failure?

- As the shield is a practical response to the spear, so counterintelligence is to intelligence. Just as it is in the interest of a state to enhance its ability to influence events through the use of intelligence, it is in its interests to deny a similar ability to its opponents. The measures taken to accomplish this end fall within the nebulous boundaries of the discipline now known as counterintelligence. - Taken from Information Gathering in Classical Greece, By Frank S. Russell