HUMINT

HUMINT

HUMINT

Introduction

Human intelligence is an intelligence whose information source is an individual, or specifically an information collection comes from human interaction. By extension, human intelligence is the set of processing activities of this type of information (collection, evaluation, analysis, dissemination) Human intelligence is distinct from the technical information (signals intelligence , image information), and open source intelligence.History

Since the Second World War, the CIA relied heavily on signals intelligence (SIGINT), this in order to minimize casualties on the ground. However, since the demise of the USSR and a number of information errors occurred during the 1990s and 2000s (the attacks of September 11, 2001 in mind), the HUMINT has again become a priority for the CIA. One of the reasons is that some agents of terrorism worldwide can be dispersed and it is rather difficult to draw a picture of the situation by relying on SIGINT only. Indeed, these organizations share some via telecommunications networks, focusing on the oral transmission of information from agent to agent, have virtually no fixed base, but have men in the world, ignoring borders.HUMINT Monitoring Terrorist Groups

Much modern interest in continuing networks of people is relevant to operations of terrorist networks, two loose categories of guerrillas who do not overlap completely. In reviewing the global structure of terrorist groups, there are two general categories of organization: networked and hierarchical. A terrorist group can use the type or a combination of the two models. Newer groups tend towards organizing or adapting to the possibilities inherent in the network model (Walton, 2003, pp 123-156).Misleading Information

The risk assumed by an information service for data and information obtained by this route is low compared to human operations (HUMINT). Since there is always motivation of some sort, the result is always positive, little data and information that the process of obtaining throws. So extensively compensates COMINT operations. Among the modalities COMINT existing radio communications have always played a special and important, even strategic might say. Just read the recent history for it. In the military environment have always used the latest technological advances in communication, for example, enhance the persuasiveness of the enemy; modality can be associated with psychological operations (PSYOPS). However, despite the extensive use of Internet (and extremely heavy emphasis placed by government in this environment and social networks) still survive old traditions, traditions which, due to its lack of theoretical use can become means of uncontrolled communication for citizens, groups of people, authorities and governments, which currently only appreciate the ...