6.3 CASING

• Casing


  Reconnaissance or surveillance of a building, place or area to determine its suitability for intelligence use or its vulnerability in an intelligence operation
• Casing


  A visual inspection of an installation or an area
• Methods of Casing

  • Personal Reconnaissance
  • Map Reconnaissance
  • Research
  • Prior Information
  • Hearsay
• Preliminary Action


  1. Analyze your mission

  2. Study available overt information

  3. Check your resources

  4. Decide in advance what things you are going to look for
• Coverage


  • Location
  • Characterization of the Area
  • Approaches to the Area
  • Special Characteristics
  • People of the Area
  • Security Considerations of the Area
• Disposal Plan


  The disposal plan procedures that would be implemented for information and materials
• Escape and Evasion Plan


  The exit planning in the event of emergency from the immediate or focal point, the general area and completely from the area
• The Casing Report

  • Sketches
  • Photography
  • Commercial Pictures
  • Detail