Clandestine HUMINT

required background and skill sets HUMINT as a collection discipline differs from its more technical counterparts in many ways as the previous chapters have proven, and while the changing nature of targets has highlighted the need for case officers from more diverse ethnic backgrounds and language skills it was focused on the clandestine HUMINT collection as a process and as such did not delve into the modern requirements of a case officer conducting clandestine HUMINT collection. Therefore, this chapter

always be needed in some form or another. Out of the five intelligence collecting disciplines, human intelligence (HUMINT) is not only the type that has been around the longest, but it happens to be the most important as well as will always be needed within all the intelligence

Human intelligence (HUMINT) and technical intelligence (TECHINT) provide a unique capability of gaining information about our adversaries. Information acquired by these two collection methods allows government decision makers and military commanders to make informed decisions and to enable proper countermeasures to protect US interests. Although these collection methods provide vital capabilities and intelligence they don’t not come without limitations. The office that takes primary

HUMINT is the oldest discipline of collecting methods. To be HUMINT collector it need a significant amount of time, training, language training, and familiarize with culture of targeted area. After 9/11 and reform the intelligence community. HUMINT collection is become essential to support all the other collected intelligence like SIGINT, GEOINT, MASINT, without HUMINT, no analyst can put the pieces together for any intelligence subject or target. " The lack of HUMINT in intelligence operations leaves

and Intelligence Community (IC). The five basic collection components are (HUMINT, SIGINT, IMINT, GEOINT, and OSINT) which, allows for a variety of different forms of the collection in order to execute the overall mission. In order to understand how intelligence is important to the national security and policy makers, one must understand the intelligence process and the collection components. Human Intelligence (HUMINT) is defined as any information that can be gathered by human sources. The Central

U.S. Intelligence Community states that ?Collection activity can take any of several overlapping forms: open source collection, clandestine collection, human source collection and interrogation, and technical collection.? 1 These areas that Richelson refers to can be broken down into the following disciplines: open source intelligence (OSINT), Human Intelligence (HUMINT), Imagery Intelligence (IMINT), Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) and Measurement and Signature Intelligence (MASINT). OSINT is the

U.S. Intelligence Community states that ?Collection activity can take any of several overlapping forms: open source collection, clandestine collection, human source collection and interrogation, and technical collection.? 1 These areas that Richelson refers to can be broken down into the following disciplines: open source intelligence (OSINT), Human Intelligence (HUMINT), Imagery Intelligence (IMINT), Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) and Measurement and Signature Intelligence (MASINT). OSINT is the

targeted for interception or eavesdropping. Furthermore, these systems cannot acquire policy documents or weapons systems manuals hidden in some vault or commandeer systems components, etc. That is why there is the requirement for human intelligence (HUMINT) activities, which can get you planning documents, technical manuals, contingency plans, and weapons systems blueprints (Richelson 2011, pg.

intelligence collection source. U.S Intelligence agencies use different collection and analytical method that suit their collection function, structure and pro¬cess. For example, DNI/OSC relies on open source (OSINT), CIA uses human intelligence (HUMINT) tactic, DIA uses measurements and signatures intelligence (MASINT), NSA employs signals intelligence (SIGINT), and NGA utilizes imagery intelligence (IMINT) techniques for their intelligence collections (Clark, 2013). In most cases these INTs community

Intelligence Data Collection Programs To effectively analyze programs, intentions and ideological motives of Hezbollah several collection programs of the five types could be utilized to gather intelligence on Hezbollah. Collected information must undergo further conversion before it reaches the analysis phase to be used against Hezbollah (Gay, 2005) First, Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) could be used to gather intelligence information from open sources such as websites, social media sources,