W2 NIS Flashcards
What are key distinctions in identifying intelligence services?
Foreign or Domestic?
Civilian or Military?
Navy or army intelligence
Collection or Counterintelligence?
Attached to which government department?
Reputation and Modus Operandi?
The USA
What did 9/11 Create?
Homeland security, made to share intelligence.
Concept of the Intelligence Community.
Specialised agencies for almost everything.
The USA
What are the four pillars of the CIA?
- Directorate of Intelligence
- National Clandestine Services
- Directorate of Science & Technology
- Directorate of support
The USA
What is the Directorate of Intelligence?
Analysis and Strategic and coordinating bodies
The USA
What is the National Clandestine Services
Formerly Directorate of Operations
Paramilitary capacities, HUMINT focus
Both covert and clandestine operations
The USA
What is the Directorate of Science & Technology
R&D
IT solutions and infrastructure
TECHINT, MASINT, CYBINT
The USA
What is the Directorate of Support?
Human Resources
Medical and security services
(Basic) IT-support
Russia
What agency’s do the Russians have?
FSB (largest service, KGB successor, mostly domestic and counterintelligence)
SVR (foreign intelligence)
GRU (still military intelligence)
Russia
Legacy of KGB
Committee for State Security”
Originated from the Stalinist Cheka (secret police) and the Stalinist NKVD
All services agency
700.000 employees
Russia
The “Litvinenko Effect”
Alexander Litvinenko, former FSB officer (defector), was in 2006 poisoned with Polonium-210 and died in London
Possibly assassinated by (former?) Russian intelligence assets for promoting (true or false?) conspiracy theories and divulging state secrets
Potentially a continuity with former Soviet-era assassination programs
People’s Republic of China
What is their intelligence based on?
Deep integration of intelligence gathering into policymaking; strong linkage between intelligence organs and governmental decision-making
People’s Republic of China
The Ministry of State Security (Guojia Anquan Bu)?
Little information
China’s main (civilian) intelligence organisation
Formed in 1983 by a merger between the Ministry of Public Security and the Investigations Department of the Chinese Communist Part
Extensive use for legal covers
Isreal
What are the historic roots of their intelligence agency.
Intelligence sections of the various Jewish grassroots organisations in the battle for Palestine (Yishuv, Haganah etc.)
Israel
What are the three services in Isreal?
Aman (military intelligence)
Used to be most influential until they made a big mistake. Yom Kippur Failure
Mossad (foreign/overseas intelligence)
Shin Bet (domestic/counterintelligence)
