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 tocollect,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 - jailhouse 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 criminalinvestigation 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.