Intelligence Fundamentals Professional Certification Study Set with Questions and Answers

Intelligence Disciplines -six basic disciplines -counterintelligence is a 7th -counterintelligence is also one of the several mission objectives outlines by our National Intelligence Strategy 1) Counterintelligence 2) Human Intelligence 3) Geospatial Intelligence 4) Measurement and Signature Intelligence 5) Open source intelligence 6) Signals Intelligence 7) Technical Intelligence Intelligence Disciplines: Counterintelligence -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 -activities are undertaken as part of an integrated DoD and national effort to detect, identify, assess, exploit, penetrate, degrade, counter, disrupt, deceive protect or neutralize, espionage, intelligence collection, sabotage, sedition, subversion, assassination, and terrorist activities, conducted for or on behalf of foreign powers, organizations persons, or their agents, or international terrorists organizations or activities directed against U.S. national security interests or DoD and its personnel, information, materiel, facilities, and activities Counter Intelligence Strategy -two pronged approach as part of a comprehensive CI strategy that feeds more effective CI functions Offensive: activities can include exploitation, penetration, degradation, disruption, deception, and neutralization Defensive: activities can include detection, identification, and assessment, protection and other countering activities Counterintelligence Activity Functions counterintelligence activities encompass five functions: 1) collection 2) analysis 3) production of intelligence 4) investigation; which include the detection, identification, exploitation, and/or neutralization of adversary intelligence threats directed against the US 5) Functional Services- activities that support other intelligence or DoD operations by providing specialized defensive CI services such as red teaming, or threat vulnerability assessments also known as TVAs. -CI Activities are undertaken to support the 4 CI missions Counterintelligence Missions 1) Countering Espionage 2) Support to Force Protection 3) Support to Critical Infrastructure Program 4) Analytic and Operational Support