Intelligence and Secret Service

Definition of Terms:

Intelligence Agency - is a government agency responsible for the collection,analysis or exploitation of

information and intelligence in support of law enforcement,national security,defense and foreign policy
objectives.

Intelligence Officer - is a person employed by an organization to collect,compile and analyze information

which is used to that organization.

Counter Intelligence - refers to effort made by intelligence organizations to prevent hostile or enemy
intelligence organization from successfully gathering and collecting intelligence against them.

Human Intelligence - category of intelligence derived from information collected and provided by human
sources.

Dead Drop/Dead Letter Box - is a method of espionage trade craft used to pass items between 2
individuals using a secret location and thus not require to meet directly.

Live Drop - 2 persons meet to exchange items or information.

Dead Drop Spike - is a concealment device used to hide money,maps,documents,microfilm and other
items.
Cut-Out - is a mutually trusted intermediary,method or channel of communication,facilitating the
exchange of information between agents.

Espionage/Spying - involves a government or individual obtaining information that is considered secret

of confidential without the permission of the holder of the information.

Agent Handling - is the management of agents,principal agents and agent networks by intelligence
officers typically known as case officers.

Case Officer - is an intelligence officer who is trained specialist in the management of agents and agent
network.

Agent - acts on behalf of another whether individual,organization or foreign government, works under
the direction of a principal agent or case officer.

Cryptography - is the practice and study of techniques for secure communication in the presence of
third parties called adversaries.

Eaves Dropping - Is the act of secretly listening to the private conversation of others without their
consent.

Propaganda - is a form of communication that is aimed at influencing the attitude of a community

toward some cause or position.

Flip - apprehended criminals who turn informants.

Snitches - jail house informants.

Means of Information Gathering

1.Overt

2.Covert

Intelligence Cycle - is the process of developing unrefined data into polished intelligence for the use of
policy makers.

1. Direction - intelligence requirements are

determined by a decision maker to meet his/her

objective.

2. Collection - is the gathering of raw information

based on requirements.

3. Processing - converting the vast amount of

information collected into a form usable by

analyst.

4. Analysis - conversion of raw information into

intelligence. It includes:

(1) integrating

(2) evaluating

(3) analyzing data and preparing intelligence

product.

5. Dissemination - is the distribution of raw or

finished intelligence to the consumer whose needs

initiated the intelligence requirement.

6. Feedback - is received from the decision maker

and revised requirement issued.

Evaluation - systematic determination of merit, worth and significance of something or someone using
criteria against a set of standards.

Collation - is the assembly of written information into a standard order.

Crime Triangle

1. the offender

2. the victim

3. the location

Crime Intelligence - information compiled, analyzed and/or disseminated in an effort to anticipate,

prevent, or monitor criminal activity.

Strategic Intelligence - information concerning existing patterns or emerging trends of criminal activity
designed to assist in criminal apprehension and crime control strategies for both short and long term
investigative tools.

Tactical Intelligence - information regarding a specific criminal event that can be used immediately by
operational units to further a criminal investigation plan tactical operations and provide for officer
safety.

Open Source - refers to any information that can be legitimately obtained e. free on request, payment of
a fee.

Source - the place or person from which information is obtained.

Intelligence Assessment - is the development of forecasts of behavior or recommended courses of

action to the leadership of an organization based on a wide range of available information sources both
overt and covert.
Intelligence Analysis - is the process of taking known information about situations and entities of
strategic, operational, or tactical importance, characterizing the known and with appropriate statements
of probability. the future actions in those situations and by those entities.

Cryptanalysis - from the Greek word Kryptos-hidden and Analyein-to loosen or to unite - is the art of
defeating cryptographic security systems and gaining access to the contents of encrypted messages
without being given the cryptographic key.

Intelligence and Secret Service Definition of Terms

2 Methods Of Collecting Information

Overt/Open – overt info. Are obtained from open and easily available sources like magazines, reports
and files.

Covert/Close

3 Defined Objectives Of Police Intelligence

To assist the commander in the success of the team

Discover and Identify criminal activities

To assist in the apprehension of criminals

3 Types Of Channels In Special Communication Systems

Regular

Secondary

Emergency

4 Phases/Steps of Informant Recruitment

Selection

Investigation
Approach

Testing

Area of Interest – subject of information gathering (person,place,things or an activity)

Briefs – the form in which the finished product of intelligence is presented to the commander in the
police department.

Bugging – the placement of a hidden microphone in a particular room to obtain information.

Burned – the agent was identified and known.

CIA – established in 1946.

Ciples – are fundamental guides to action, broad statement of truth from which others are derived.

Classification/Types Of Police Intelligence

Strategic Intelligence

Counter Intelligence

Line Intelligence

Coding – is the process of putting the codes and ciphers to plain text message.
Collate – to bring together and compare the truthfulness of the information.

Collection – to accumulate knowledge on a subject or area of interest.

Cooperative Members of the Community - a rich source of information on criminals, criminal activities
and even subversive groups.

Criminal Syndicate – it is a stable business with violence applied and directed at unwelcome
competitors.

Criminal World – the social organization of criminals having its own social classes.

Cryptoanalysis – is the process of putting the plain text message to codes and cipher.

Cryptograph – the art and science of making, devising, inventing, or protecting codes and cipher.

Counter Intelligence – type of intelligence activity which deals with defending the organization againsts
it criminal activities.

Counter Intelligence Security Measures

Physical Security – a system of barrier placed between the potential intruder and the material to be
protected.

Personnel Security – includes all security measures designed to prevent unsuitable individuals of
doubtful loyalty from gaining access to classified matter,securing facilities and to prevent the
appointment, employment, or retention as employees of such individuals.

Operational Security – measures taken in conducting operations or action in a secure and efficient
manner.
Security Survey/Inspection – conducted in order to assist the chief of office in determining the security
measures required to protect key installation from possible sabotage, espionage, subversion and
unauthorized disclosure of or access to classified defense information or materials.

Community Security – is the protection resulting from all measures designed to deny unauthorized
person information of value which may be derived from the possession and study of communications or
to mislead unauthorized persons and the interpretation of the result of such study.

Counter Surveillance – if a surveillance team is watched by the supervisor or a designated unknown

individual to know if the team is doing its job as planned or is being watched by companions of the
subject.

Covert Operation – if the information is obtained without the knowledge of the person against whom
the information or document may be used or if the method or procurement is done not in an open
manner.

Detection of Criminal – the primary purpose of police counter intelligence.

Decipher – to reconvert the cipher into plain text message.

Documentary Security Classifications

Top Secret

Secret

Confidential

Restricted

Encipher – conversion of plain text message to ciphers.

Evaluation – it is the critical appraisal of information as a basis for its subsequent interpretation which
includes determining the pertinence of information and the reliability of the source.

- to judge the information as to its truthfulness or importance.

Financial Gain – the most common reason why an informer is giving information.

Frederick The Great – father of organized military espionage.

Information – are knowledge, data, news, opinion or the like transmitted from one person to another.

Integrate – to make the entire or all the information the subject matter.

Interpret – to explain the meaning or to expand the information from the unknown to known.

Intelligence – product resulting from the collecting information concerning an actual and potential
situation and condition relating to foreign activities and to foreign or enemy held areas.

- product resulting from collection, evaluation, analysis, integration, and interpretation of available
information concerning area of interest.

Interpretation – determining the significance of the information with respect to what is already known
and it draws conclusions as to the probable meaning of the evaluated information.
Kinds Of Surveillance

Surveillance of place

Tailing or shadowing

Undercover investigation or Roping

Line Intelligence – types of intelligence which is of immediate nature and necessary for more effective
police planning and operation.

Method of Casing

Personal Reconnaissance – the most effective

Map Reading

Research Work

Operational Data Research

Military Intelligence – it is an evaluated and interpreted information concerning an actual or possible

enemy or theater of operations including weather and terrain together with the conclusions drawn
therefrom.

Need To Know Principle – in intelligence dissemination, even a ranking law enforcer who has no
business on the classified information is not furnished the report.

OB File – identification, location, and knowing the intents of criminal syndicates, notorious characters
and even people with subversive desires must be made available for use.

Order Of Battle – an intelligence document describing the identity, strength, command structure and
disposition of the enemy/criminals.
Organized crime – it is the combination of two or more persons for the purpose of establishing criminal
activity.

Overt Operation – if the information or document are procured openly with out regard as to whether
the subject of the investigation becomes knowledgeable of the purpose for which it is being gathered.

Parker – internal affairs is my defense and intelligence is my offensive arm.

Police Counter Intelligence – it is the detection, prevention, or neutralization of any activity inimical to
the harmony and best interest of the police organization.

Police Intelligence – an evaluated and interpreted information concerning organized crime and other
major police problems.

Reconnaissance – to gather specific or detailed information at a particular time and place.

Roping – undercover assignment, form of investigation in which the investigator assume a different and
unofficial identity/cover story in order to obtain information.

Safe House – a clandestine place where the intelligence agent and his superior meet.

Schulmoister – Napoleon's secret military agent.

Security Inspection – conducted in order to determine degree of compliance with established security
policies and procedures.

Stool Pidgeon – an individual who sells information to different groups of law enforcers.
Strategic Intelligence – intelligence which is primarily long range in nature with little or no immediate
practical value.

Sun Tzu – he was the writer of the book “Art of War”.

Surveillance – to gather general information over a wide area and takes a longer time frame.

Tactical Interrogation – a process or method to obtain information from a captured enemy.

Walshingham – protector of queen Elizabeth.

Wilhelm Von Stieber – a CIA intelligence officer who spied for soviet union from 1985 – 1994, he had
perpetrated the costliest breach of security in the agency's history.