Counterintelligence defined by the Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms correct answers
Proactive activities designed to identify, exploit, neutralize, or deter foreign intelligence
collection and terrorist activities directed against the US
Domestically correct answers The FBI primarily operates:
1. Protect the secrets of the US IC, using intelligence to focus investigative efforts, ad
collaborating w/ out government partners to reduce the risk of espionage and insider threats
2. Protect the nation's critical assets, like our advanced technologies and sensitive info in the
defense, intel, economic, financial, public health, and science and technology sectors
3. Counter the activities of foreign spies; Through proactive investigations, the FBI identifies
who they are and stops what they're doing
4. Keep weapons of mass destruction from falling into the wrong hands, and use intelligence to
drive the FBI's investigate efforts to keep threats from becoming reality correct answers Missions
of the FBI regarding counterintelligence
Counterintelligence Mission Center (CIMC) correct answers Through this, the CIA conducts
foreign ops by analyzing the capabilities, intentions, and activities of foreign intel services;
Conduct better vetting of those agents the CIA is recruiting for its espionage activities; Works to
prevent foreign intel agencies from discovering those agents that the CIA has recruited w/n their
intel orgs
Ministry of State Security (MSS) correct answers In 2010, this Chinese agency began rounding
up and executing Chinese nationals identified as spies as a result of CIA's failure to protect
sensitive communications with its agents
1. Counterintelligence support to military commands
2. (At the brigade level) Helps to assess the level of training of personnel in the unit to identify
threats to the mission and protect sensitive info
, 3. (In Germany, during Cold War) Operate undercover and visit local bars to engage service
members in-conversation to see what information about the unit they were willing to reveal
4. Conduct Dumpster Diving- sifting through office trash to see what had been thrown away and
whether any of the info discovered could provide details on unit readings
5. (During Exercises) Visit unit deployment sites to see what had been left behind once a unit
departs
6. (In intel agencies) Investigate insiders for potential recruitment by adversary intel services
correct answers Responsibilities of CI officers in various situations
James Angleton correct answers CIA officer; Sought out Soviet moles within the agency during
the Cold War; Controversial character b/c of his support of questionable tactics to target
suspected diversity agents
MHCHAOS correct answers Targeting of student dissident groups
Counter Intelligence Program (COINTELPRO) correct answers The FBI program involved
methods of espionage, infiltration, framing, and targeted killings of Black Panthers during a time
of heightened fears of revolutionary violence in the late 1960s
Economic Espionage Act correct answers A federal law that was created to assist CI personnel in
US corporations to prevent the theft of trade secrets
1996 Economic Espionage Act correct answers Under this act, the FBI works to protect trade
secrets from foreign espionage activities
1. Recognize the threat,
2. Identify and value trade secrets
3.Implement a definable plan for safeguarding trade secrets
4. Secure physical trade secrets and limit access to trade secrets
5. Provide ongoing security training to employees