6.7 INTELLIGENCE OPERATIONAL CYCLE

• Intelligence Operational Cycle


  The chronological development of collection activities from the time of basic requirements to the time of submission of the final products
• Intelligence Units Main Operational Activities


  • SPOT
  • RECRUIT
  • MANAGE
• Handling & Management Phase

  • Training
  • Briefing
  • Operational Testing
  • Dispatch and Reception
  • Communication
  • Debriefing
  • Payment
  • Disposition
  • Reporting
• Steps of the Intelligence Operational Cycle


  • Mission
  • Operational Planning
  • Spotting
  • Investigation and Assessment
  • Recruitment
• Mission


  The concise written statement of the directives broken down into objectives and further classified into pertinent targets as a result of the mission analysis in relation with one's capabilities and operational conditions
• Mission Characteristics


  • Reasonable (bounded by Law)
  • With sensible suspense data (database)
  • Within the capability (resources/training/personnel needed) of the Unit or Office
  • Clear
• Operational Planning


  The concept of the project. It involves the assignment of a specific task to each element or operating agency, operational support, coordination, administrative instruction and security
• Spotting


  The process of locating, identifying and gathering data on persons who appear to be of potential value to current operations or those which may conceivably take place on a later date. The spotting process must be done in a manner which leaves the agent candidates unaware of the spotting activity
• Spotting Characteristics


  • Responsive to the objective/requirements
  • Continuing process
  • Collective
  • Compartmented
  • Not be expensive
• Spotting Criteria


  • Placement - state of being located in the target area, or organization
  • Access - position relative to assignment that enables the person to obtain information, data from files, records, documents
  • Motives/Motivation - loyalties, possible inducements
• Investigation and Assessment


  This involves processing and collating the maximum information available on the agent candidate to determine his qualification, motivation, possible reactions to recruitment and suitability to undertake information collection activities. May reveal facts about the agent candidate that makes him unfit for the assignment
• Information to investigate on agent candidate


  • Strength
  • Weaknesses
  • Personality
  • Religion
  • Financial standing
  • Health and medical records
  • Political affiliations
  • Family background
  • Education
  • Mannerisms/habits
  • Associations
  • Language/dialects
  • Others
• Methods of Investigation


  • Personal investigation (surveillance, neighborhood check, undercover operations)
  • Documents and records checks
  • Interview and elicitation
  • Liaising
• Spotting Considerations


  • Understand what makes him/her tick and how to manipulate him/her
  • Identify his/her problems - spouse, girlfriend, boss, money, sexuality, etc
  • Become the friend he/she does not have
  • Feed his/her ego
  • Plant a seed
  • Appear trustworthy
• Motivation


  Incentive or drive that impels the Agent to work for the operative
• Motivation Types/Factors


  • Material or Money - need, greed, identification, career
  • Ideological
  • Coercion - extra-marital affairs exposure, sexual abnormalities, illegal activities (negative)
  • Emotional - love, hate, envy, fear, revenge, vanity
• Considerations Prior to Approach


  • Suitability - qualifications, motives, and other factors which make the Candidate Agent fit or appropriate for the objective's accomplishment
  • Accessibility - Candidate Agent's ability to place himself in the physical location of the target to perform the required information collection without detection or compromise
  • Susceptibility to Control - ability to comply with or submit to discipline and control
• Kinds of Agents


  • Double Agents - individuals who are simultaneously employed by 2 opposing intelligence agencies with only one of the agencies aware of the dual roles
  • Dual Agents - individuals simultaneously and independently employed by 2 or more friendly intelligence units/office
  • Intelligence Peddler - individual who sells information
  • Paper Mill - individual who offers a mixture of valid but outdated information, overt news, propaganda or sometimes outright fabrications
• Recruitment


  The formal acceptance of the agent candidate as an active member of the information collection effort. Access is the key. The objectives of recruitment are to obtain qualified and highly motivated agents and eliminate the danger of jeopardizing the mission in the recruitment process
• Steps in Recruitment


  • Assessment of the target
  • Planning the approach
  • Rapport development
  • Exploitation of motives
  • Cultivation and development of the right attitude
• Training


  A continuous matter and is accomplished both informally and formally. The goal of agent training is to provide the general knowledge and special skills so the agent can carry out effectively and securely the task assigned to him
• Briefing


  Consists of providing the agent with the most recent developments that may affect the operation; a general review of the operational facts and detailed instructions regarding the task itself
• Operational Testing


  Tasking an agent to obtain certain operational requirements applying all aspects taken during the training. It is an efficiency performance test
• Dispatch and Reception


  Defining the procedures to be followed by the agent when communication is sent to him as well as when he sends back communication
• Communication


  Outlining the system communication flow that must conform to the limits set by security in accordance with the operational requirements and consistent with the four (4) basic aspects of control, flow, continuity and security
• Debriefing


  This begins as soon as he has completed an assigned task in order to get the latest intelligence information and operational developments. It often serves as a favorable time for making clarifications. It should be thoroughly prepared in order to recognize significant information and to ask the right questions
• Payments


  An agent may receive regular payment for his services. Some who adhere to a certain strong moral and ideological code may not wish to accept money, but may have no objection receiving financial compensation of their clandestine collection effort
• Disposition


  Termination of the services of agents must be considered prior to recruitment. An agent may be terminated because of accomplishment of the mission, exhaustion of funds, agent being compromised, lack of access to the assigned target, and disloyalty on the part of the agent
• Reporting


  It is the means of transmitting the main product of clandestine collection effort
• Intelligence


  Basic information and knowledge
• Law Enforcement Intelligence (LAWINT)


  The end product (output) of an analytic process which collects and assesses information about crimes and/or criminal enterprises with the purpose of making judgements and inferences about community conditions, potential problems, and criminal activity with the intent to pursue criminal prosecution or project crime trends
• Goals of Law Enforcement Intelligence


  • Development of evidence for prosecution of criminal cases
  • Identification and seizure of illegal commodities (contraband and fruits of unlawful transactions)
  • Development of information to direct the allocation and deployment of law enforcement resources
• Intelligence Cycle


  An organized process by which information is gathered, assessed, and distributed in order to meet the needs of decision makers
• REPORTING


  The means of transmitting the main product of clandestine collection effort
• Goals of law enforcement intelligence (LAWINT)


  • Development of evidence for prosecution of criminal cases
  • Identification and seizure of illegal commodities (contraband and fruits of unlawful transactions)
  • Development of information to direct the allocation and deployment of law enforcement resources
• The intelligence cycle


  An organized process by which information is gathered, assessed, and distributed in order to fulfill the goals of the intelligence function, it is a method of performing analytic activities and placing the analysis in a useable form
• Steps of the intelligence cycle

  • Collection
  • Evaluation
  • Collation
  • Analysis
  • Reporting
  • Dissemination
• COLLECTION of Information


  The identification, location, and recording of unanalyzed information, typically from an original source and using both human and technological means, for input into the intelligence cycle to determine its usefulness in meeting a defined tactical or strategic intelligence goal
• Ways collection is accomplished

  • Routinized Input
  • Selected Access
  • Special Access
  • Casework Availability
  • Unsolicited Input
• Collecting good intelligence


  • You have to be innovative. It's not always pleasant, but sometimes the least pleasant efforts produce the best results. Going through the garbage of an intelligence target is usually very rewarding.