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 INTRODUCTION
 DEFINITION OF TERMS
 COMBAT INTELLIGENCE AND
COUNTERINTELLIGENCE
 EVALUATION OF REPORT
 COUNTER-INTELLIGENCE

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 Intelligence Objective
“The acquisition of knowledge
concerning the insurgency movement, the
population, the weather and the geographic
features to provide a basis for political and
military decision – making essential to
counterinsurgency activities.”

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 Responsibility
o Intelligence is a command responsibility.
o Individual soldiers are responsible in
reporting to higher unit all the collected
information on the terrain, insurgents, and the
civilian community within the area.

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 Tasks
o Intelligence in platoon level is simply
information gathering and not the whole intelligence
system.
o Unit and individual soldiers are task to collect
specified information requirement, identify, recruit,
and utilize intelligence net; identify and confirm OB
personalities in the area; interrogate identified
personalities; surveillance and reconnaissance, and
others as maybe determined by higher headquarters.

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 Intelligence in counterinsurgency falls into
three categories.

a. Background Intelligence

b. Local Intelligence

c. Contact Intelligence

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 DEFINITION OF TERMS
INFORMATION – in unevaluated materials of
every description that derived from observation,
commo, reports , rumors, imagery and other
sources .

INTELLIGENCE - is the product resulting from the

collection, evaluation and interpretation of all
available information.

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SOURCE OF INFORMATION – are persons, things or
action from which information about the enemy,
weather of terrain is derived.

COLLECTION - is the systematic exploitation of

sources of information by the collection agencies

COLLECTION AGENCY - is any person, unit or

activity that collects and/or process information by
research, surveillance, interrogation or other
exploitation of resources.

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 Actions to neutralize the activities of hostile
intelligence organizations
a. Denying the enemy information about
the Army plans, intentions, and activities.
b. Detecting the enemy’s efforts to get
information.
c. Deceiving the enemy as to the Army
plans and intentions.

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 Principles of Intelligence Operations

a. Intelligence operations and

tactical operations are interdependent.
b. Timely and useful.
c. Flexibility in procedure.
d. Requires the use of their
imagination and foresight.
e. Adoption of constant security
measures.

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 Sources of Information
a. Prisoners of war (POW)
b. Captured documents
c. Enemy activity
d. Local civilians

However, you cannot be sure which side the civilians are

trying to help, so be careful when acting on information
obtained from them. Try to confirm that information by some
other means.

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 What to Report
a. S - ize.
b. A - ctivity
c. L - ocation
d. U - nit
e. T - ime
f. E - quipment.

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 Prisoners of War and Captured Documents
a. Handling POWs
1) Search POWs
2) Search POWs
3) Silence POWs
4) Speed POWs to the rear
5) Safeguard POWs when taking
them to the rear.

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 Prisoners of War and Captured Documents

b. Handling captured documents and
equipment.
1) Give them to your leader quickly.
2) Tag each item.
3) If the item was found on a POW,
put that POW’s name on the tag.

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 Counterintelligence Measures.
a. Practice camouflage principles and techniques.
b. Practice noise and light discipline.
c. Practice field sanitation.
d. Use proper radiotelephone procedure.
e. Use the challenge and password properly.
f. Not take personal letters or pictures into combat
areas.

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 Counterintelligence Measures.
g. Not keep diaries in combat areas.
h. Be careful when discussing military affairs (the
enemy may be listening).
i. Use only authorized codes.
j. Abide by the Code of Conduct (if captured).
k. Report any soldier or civilian who is believed to
be serving or sympathetic with the enemy.

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 Counterintelligence Measures.
l. Report anyone who tries to get information about
Army operations.
m. Destroy all maps or important documents if
capture is imminent.
n. Not discuss military operations in public areas.
o. Discuss military operations only with those
persons having a need to know the
information.
p. Remind fellow soldiers of their counterintelligence
responsibilities

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 EVALUATION OF REPORT

 RELIABILITY SOURCE
A – Completely Reliable
B – Usually Reliable
C – Fairy Reliable
D – Not usually reliable
E – Unreliable
F – Reliability cannot be judged

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 ACCURACY OF INFORMATION
1 – Confirmed by other sources
2 – Probably true
3 – Possibly true
4 – Doubtfully true
5 – Improbable
6 – Truth cannot be judged

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 DESCRIPTION OF THE SOURCE

S – SIGINT
T – Commander of unit /PO/AH
U – DPA/Intel specialist
V – Troops involved in operation
W – TI
X – Gov’t Officials/employee
Y – Civilian populace
Z – CED
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 Passive or offensive CI - those measures

design to conceal information from the
enemy.

 Active or defensive CI - those measures

design to physically block an attempt of the
enemy to gain info or his effort to engage in
sabotage and subversion.

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 General Purposes of CI Measures
1) Denial – prevents the enemy from
obtaining info like COMSEC, PHYSEC,
DOCSEC and counter recon.
2) Detection - use to expose and
neutralized enemy intel effort.
3) Deception – employed to misled the
enemy as true status or purpose of friendly
activities, personnel and weapons, strength,
disposition and logistical build-up.
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 SUMMARY

 INTRODUCTION
 DEFINITION OF TERMS
 COMBAT INTELLIGENCE AND
COUNTERINTELLIGENCE
 EVALUATION OF REPORT
 COUNTER-INTELLIGENCE

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