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A GLOSSARY OF INTELLIGENCE TERMS

Accommodation address: A mail address, usually a post
office box, for communication between agents and case
officers.

Agent: An individual who acts under the direction of
an intelligence agency or security service to obtain,
or assist in obtaining, information for intelligence
or counterintelligence purposes. The term is commonly
misused in the media to mean an intelligence officer.

Agent of influence: An individual who can be used by a
intelligence service to covertly influence foreign
officials, opinion molders, organizations, or pressure
groups in a way that generally will advance the
government's objectives, or to undertake specific
action in support of U.S. government objectives.

Agent provocateur: An individual, employed by an
agency urging illegal acts by those under suspicion.

Analysis: A stage in the intelligence processing cycle
whereby collected information is reviewed to identify
significant facts. The information is compared and
collated with other data, and conclusions that also
incorporate the memory and judgement of the
intelligence analyst are derived from it.

Assessment: Part of the intelligence process whereby
an analyst determines the reliability or validity of a
piece of information; also, a statement resulting from
this process.

Asset: Any resource - a person, group, relationship,
instrument, installation, or supply - at the
disposition of an intelligence agency for use in an
operational or support role. The term is normally
applied to a person who is contributing to a CIA
clandestine mission, but is not a fully controlled
agent of the CIA.

Bagman: An agent who pays bribes or carries money for
distribution.

Bigot list: A restrictive list of persons who have
access to a particular and highly sensitive class of
information. Bigot is read to mean narrow.

Black: Indicates reliance on concealment of an illegal
activity, rather than on cover.

Black bag job: Warrantless surreptitious entry,
especially conducted for purposes other than
microphone installation, such as physical search and
seizure, photographing documents or downloading
computer files.

Black propaganda: Propaganda that purports to emanate
from a source other than the true one. If no
attribution is given, it is called gray propaganda.

Blow: To expose - often unintentionally - personnel,
installations, or other elements of a clandestine
activity or organization.

Brainwashed: A person who has been the subject of
psychological techniques to alter thought processes
and loyalty.Bug. A concealed listening device or
microphone or other audio surveillance device; also,
to install the means for audio surveillance of a
subject or target.

Bugged: Contains a concealed listening device.

Burnt: Compromised. Can be used in relation to an
individual or an operation.

Burst transmission: A present message transmitted
rapidly to thwart hostile direction-finding
surveillance.

Case: An intelligence operation in its entirety; also,
a record of the development, methods, and objectives
of an operation.

Case officer: An Operations Directorate officer of the
CIA responsible for handling agents.
Cell: The basic unit of a covert espionage network.

Chekist: Member of the Russian intelligence services,
from Cheka, the first Soviet security service.

Cipher: Any cryptographic system in which arbitrary
symbols or groups of symbols represent units of plain
text.

Clandestine intelligence: Intelligence information
collected via covert resources.Classification. The
determination that official information requires, in
the interest of national security, a specific degree
of protection from unauthorized disclosure, coupled
with a designation signifying that such a
determination has been made. The designation normally
is termed a security classification.

Cobbler: A forger, a slang term popular with the
British.Code. A system of communication in which
arbitrary groups of symbols represent units of plain
text. Codes may be used for brevity or security.Code
word. A word assigned a classification and a
classified meaning to safeguard intentions and
information regarding a planned operation.

Collection: The acquisition of information by any
means and its delivery to the proper intelligence
processing unit for use in the production of
intelligence.

COMINT: Communications intelligence. Technical and
intelligence information derived from foreign
communications by someone other than the intended
recipient; sometimes used interchangeably with SIGINT.
It does not include foreign press, propaganda or
public broadcasts.

Company: the. Insiders' name for the Central
Intelligence Agency.Compartmentation. The practice of
establishing channels for handling sensitive
intelligence information. The channels are limited to
individuals with a specific need for such information
and who are therefor given special security clearances
in order to have access to it.

COMSEC: Communications security. The protection of
U.S. telecommunications from exploitation by foreign
intelligence services and from unauthorized
disclosure. COMSEC is one of the mission
responsibilities of NSA. It includes cryptosecurity,
transmission security, emission security, and physical
security of classified equipment, material, and
documents.Consumer. A person or agency that uses
information or intelligence produced either by its own
staff or other agencies.

Control: Physical or psychological pressure exerted on
an agent or group to ensure that the agent or group
responds to the direction from an intelligence agency
or service.

Co-opted worker: A citizen of the country who is not
an officer or employee of the country's intelligence
service, but who assists that service on a temporary
or regular basis. In most circumstances, a co-opted
worker is an official of the country, but might also
be a tourist, businessman, scientist or student, for
example.

Counterespionage: Those aspects of counterintelligence
concerned with aggressive operations against another
intelligence service to reduce its effectiveness or to
detect and neutralize foreign espionage. This is done
by identification, penetration, manipulation,
deception, and repression of individuals, groups, or
organizations conducting or suspected of conducting
espionage activities in order to destroy, neutralize,
exploit, or prevent such espionage activities.

Counterinsurgency: Military, paramilitary, political,
economic, psychological, civic, and any other actions
taken by a government to defeat rebellion and
subversion within a country.Counterintelligence.
Activities conducted to destroy the effectiveness of
foreign intelligence operations and to protect
information against espionage, individual against
subversion, and installations against sabotage; also
refers to information developed by or used in
counterintelligence operations. See also
Counterespionage.Courier. A messenger responsible for
the secure physical transmission and delivery of
documents and materials.

Cousins: British MI6 [Secret Intelligence Service
(SIS)] name for CIA.Cover. A protective guise used by
a person, organization, or installation to prevent
identification with clandestine activities and to
conceal the true affiliation of personnel and the true
sponsorship of their activities.Cover-name. An alias.

Covert action: A clandestine activity designed to
influence foreign governments, events, organizations,
or persons in support of U.S. foreign policy, and that
conceals the identity of the sponsor or else permits
the sponsor's plausible denial of the operation;
sometimes called covert operations, clandestine
operations, and clandestine activity.

Cryptanalysis: The breaking of codes and ciphers into
plain text without initial knowledge of the key
employed in the encryption.

CRYPTO: A designation applied to classified,
cryptographic information that involves special rules
for access and handling.Cryptography. The enciphering
of a plain text so that it will be unintelligible to
an unauthorized reader or recipient.

Cut-out: A person used to conceal contact between
members of a clandestine activity or
organization.Damage assessment. An evaluation of the
impact of a compromise in terms of loss of
intelligence information, sources, or methods, which
may describe and/or recommend measures to minimize
damage and prevent future compromises.

Dangle: Someone who intentionally draws the attention
of a hostile intelligence service so that, through
mere contact, information may be learned about that
service.

DCI: Director of Central Intelligence. The President's
principal foreign intelligence advisor, appointed by
him with the consent of the Senate to be the head of
the intelligence community and Director of the Central
Intelligence Agency and to discharge those authorities
and responsibilities as they are prescribed by law and
by Presidential and National Security Council
directives.

DCID: Director of Central Intelligence Directive. A
directive issued by the DCI that outlines general
policies and procedures to be followed by intelligence
agencies under his direction; usually more specific
than a National Security Council Directive (see
NSCID).

Defector: A person who, for political or other
reasons, repudiates and flees his country, usually to
an adversary nation interested in what intelligence he
could provide about the country of origin.Defense
intelligence community. Refers to the Defense
Intelligence Agency (DIA), the National Security
Agency (NSA), and the military services' intelligence
offices including Department of Defense (DOD)
collectors of specialized intelligence through
reconnaissance programs.

Desk man: Controller or sub-controller at
headquarters.DIA. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA).
Department of Defense agency responsible for producing
military intelligence, created by directive of the
Secretary of Defense in 1961.

Disinformation: False or misleading information to
confuse or discredit the opposition.

Double agent: A person engaging in clandestine
activity for two or more intelligence or security
services who provide information to one service about
the other, or about each service to the other, and who
is wittingly or unwittingly manipulated by one service
against the other.

Drop: Clandestine transference of intelligence
information. Leaving material in a secret place for
pick-up later is a dead drop, as opposed to a live
drop, when people meet to pass material. The word
"Dubok" is Russian for a dead drop.

ECM: Electronic countermeasures. That division of
electronic warfare involving actions taken to prevent
or reduce an adversary's effective use of the
electromagnetic spectrum. Electronic countermeasures
include electronic jamming, which is the deliberate
radiation, reradiation, or reflection of
electromagnetic energy with the object of impairing
the use of electronic equipment used by an adversary;
and electronic deception, which is similar but is
intended to mislead an adversary in the interpretation
of information received by his electronic system.

Elicitation: The acquisition of intelligence from a
person or group which does not disclose the intent of
the interview or conversation; a human intelligence
(see HUMINT) collection technique generally of an
overt nature, unless the collector is other than what
he or she purports to be.

ELINT: Electronic intelligence. Technical and
intelligence information derived from the collection
(or interception) and processing of foreign
electromagnetic radiations (noncommunications)
emanating from sources such as radar.Espionage.
Clandestine collection of intelligence.Executive
action. Generally a euphemism for assassination, used
by the CIA to describe a program aimed at overthrowing
certain foreign leaders, by assassinating them if
necessary.

Fabricator: An agent who provides false
information.False flag. A recruitment involving a
deliberate misrepresentation of one's actual employer
to achieve the recruitment.

Farm, the: Training school for CIA at Camp Peary in
Virginia.Field

Flap: A commotion, controversy, or publicity that is
the result of a bungled intelligence operation.

Flaps and seals man: Expert at undetected opening and
closing of the mails.

Flutter: To conduct a polygraph or lie detector test,
CIA term.

Friends: A British term of reference used by MI5 for
MI6.

Galoshes day: When galoshes were issued by the KGB to
its officials for winter work - "a bad day."

Gebist: Russian slang for the SVRR officer, formerly
used for KGB officers.

Gray propaganda: See Black propaganda.

Hard target: A country, installation or institution
that is difficult for an agent to penetrate. Thus,
also soft target meaning the reverse.

Honey trap: Operation to compromise an opponent
sexually.

HUMINT: Human intelligence. Intelligence information
derived from human sources.

IC: Intelligence community. Refers, in the aggregate,
to the following American executive branch
organizations: the Central Intelligence Agency, the
National Security Agency, the Defense Intelligence
Agency, offices within the Department of Defense for
the collection of specialized national foreign
intelligence through reconnaissance programs, the
Bureau of Intelligence and Research of the Department
of State, intelligence elements of the military
services, counterintelligence elements of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation, intelligence elements of the
Department of the Treasury, intelligence elements of
the Department of Energy, intelligence elements of the
Drug Enforcement Administration and staff elements of
the Office of the Director of Central Intelligence.

Illegal: An officer or employee of an intelligence
organization who is dispatched abroad and who has no
overt connection with the intelligence organization
with which he is connected or with the government
operating that intelligence organization.

Illegal residency. An intelligence apparatus
established in a foreign country and composed of one
or more intelligence officers, and which has no
apparent connection with the sponsoring intelligence
organization or with the government of the country
operating the intelligence organization.

Illness: Russian slang term for arrest.Infiltration.
The placing of an agent or other person in a target
area within hostile territory or within targeted
groups or organizations.

Informant: A person who wittingly or unwittingly
provides information voluntarily, under pressure or
for money to any agent, intelligence, or
counterintelligence or law enforcement agency. In
reporting such information, this person will often be
cited as the "source."

Informer: Pejorative term for an informant.

INR: Bureau of Intelligence and Research. The U.S.
Department of State's intelligence service.In place. A
recruited agent who has not physically defected and
remains in his official position is said to be an
"agent in place."Intelligence analyst. A professional
employee of an intelligence organization who engages
in analysis of information gathered by clandestine and
open means.

Intelligence cycle: The steps by which information is
assembled, converted into intelligence, and made
available to consumers. The cycle comprises four basic
phases: (1) director, the determination of
intelligence requirements, preparation of a collection
plan, tasking of collection agencies, and a continuous
check on the productivity of these agencies; (2)
collection, the exploitation of information sources
and the delivery of the collected information to the
proper intelligence processing unit for use in the
production of intelligence; (3) processing, the steps
whereby information becomes intelligence through
evaluation, analysis, integration, and interpretation;
and (4) dissemination, the distribution of information
or intelligence products in oral, written, or graphic
form to departmental and agency intelligence
consumers.

Intelligence estimate: An appraisal of intelligence
elements relating to a specific situation or condition
to determine the courses of action open to an enemy or
potential enemy and the probable order of their
adoption.

Intelligence officer: A professional employee of an
intelligence organization who engages in clandestine
intelligence activities.

Interception: Generally refers to the collection of
electromagnetic signals such as radio communications
by sophisticated collection equipment without the
knowledge of the communicants for the production of
certain forms of signals intelligence.

Interrogation: A systematic effort to procure
information by direct questioning of a person under
the control of the questioner.

Invisible ink: The oldest tool still used by spies.
Lemons are still useful when technology fails.(See
also Secret Writing)

Legend: Invented name and biography to hide the
identity of a spy.

MI: Military intelligence. Basic, current, or
estimative intelligence on any foreign military or
military-related situation or activity.

Microdot: Photograph of a message reduced for
concealment to microscopic size.

Mole: A penetration agent, an individual working for a
foreign intelligence service within his own country's
intelligence organization; the term was popularized in
the novels of John LeCarre [David Cornwall].

Monitoring: The observing of, listening to, or
recording of foreign or domestic communications for
intelligence collection or intelligence security
(e.g., COMSEC) purposes.

Music box: Radio transmitter.

Naked: Operating without back-up or cover.

Nash: "One of ours," Russian for a recruited
agent.National intelligence. Intelligence produced by
the CIA that bears on the broad aspects of U.S.
national policy and national security. It is of
concern to more than one department or agency.

Neighbor: Other branch of intelligence service.

Network: A spy ring working for one chief.

NFIB: National Foreign Information Board. A body
formed to provide the Director of Central Intelligence
with advice concerning: production, review, and
coordination of national foreign intelligence; the
National Foreign Intelligence Program budget;
interagency exchanges of foreign intelligence
information; arrangements with foreign governments on
intelligence matters; the protection of intelligence
sources or methods; activities of common concern; and
such other matters as are referred to it by the DCI.
The board is composed of the DCI (chairman) and other
appropriate officers of the Central Intelligence
Agency, the Office of the DCI, Department of State,
Department of Defense, Department of Justice,
Department of the Treasury, Department of Energy, the
offices within the Department of Defense for
reconnaissance programs, the Defense Intelligence
Agency, the National Security Agency, and the Federal
Bureau of Investigation; senior intelligence officers
of the army, navy, and air force participate as
observers; a representative of the Assistant to the
President for National Security Affairs may also
attend meetings as an observer.

NIA: National Intelligence Authority. An executive
council created by President Truman's executive order
of January 22, 1946, which had authority over the
simultaneously created Central Intelligence Group (see
CIG); predecessor of the National Security Council.

NIE: National Intelligence Estimate. An estimate
authorized by the DCI of the capabilities,
vulnerabilities, and probable courses of action of
foreign nations; represents the composite view of the
intelligence community.

NSC: National Security Council. Established by the
National Security Act of 1947 and placed within the
Executive Office of the President in 1949, the NSC
advises the President on matters relating to national
security with respect to the integration of domestic,
foreign, and military policies; comprised of the
President, Vice-President, Secretary of State, and
Secretary of Defense, with the Director of Central
Intelligence and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
acting as advisors.

NSCID: National Security Council Intelligence
Directive. Intelligence guidelines issued by the NSC
to intelligence agencies. NSCIDs are often augmented
by more specific Director of Central Intelligence
Directives and by internal departmental or agency
regulations. See also DCID.

Onetime pad: Simple encoding method with five letter
groups used only once.

Order of battle: Information regarding the identity,
strength, command structure, and disposition of
personnel, units and equipment of any military force.

Overt: Legally gathered information from published or
quotable sources.

Paper mill: A fabricator who provides false
information consistently and in volume; see also
Fabricator.

Paroles: Key words for mutual identification among
agents.

Piscine: Literally, swimming pool. Headquarters of the
French DGSE.

Penetration: The recruitment of agents within or the
planting of agents or technical monitoring devices
within a target organization to gain access to its
secrets or to influence its activities.

PHOTINT: Photographic intelligence. Information or
intelligence derived from photography through
photographic interpretation.

Pickle Factory: Insiders' name for the Central
Intelligence Agency.

Pitch: The act of persuading a person to be an agent;
a pitch made without the benefit of any prior
cultivation of the person in question is a cold pitch.

Plain text: Unencrypted communications; specifically,
the original message of a cryptogram expressed in
ordinary language.

Playback: Information which captured or compromised
agents are forced to continue transmitting.

Plumbing: Assets or services supporting the operations
of CIA field stations, such as safe houses,
unaccountable funds, investigative persons,
surveillance teams.Pocket litter. The misleading
documents and materials an agent carries to protect
his identity and cover background if apprehended.

Polygraph: A lie detector. A machine to indicate
whether a suspect is lying by measuring nervous
reflexes.

President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board
(PFIAB): A group of prominent private citizens
appointed by the American President to advise him on
matters of foreign intelligence. PFIAB's influence
varies with each administration. It has been used as a
supplementary Inspectorate General over clandestine
operations.

Principal agent: An agent who recruits other agents
and then manages the resulting network.

Product: Finished intelligence reports disseminated by
intelligence agencies to appropriate consumers.

Proprietaries: Ostensibly private commercial entities
capable of doing business, which are established and
controlled by intelligence services to conceal
governmental affiliation of intelligence personnel
and/or governmental sponsorship of certain activities
in support of clandestine operations.

Raven: Originally a Russian term for a male seducer
used to lure a woman into sexual compromise; see also
honey trap.

Raw intelligence: A colloquial term meaning collected
intelligence information that has not yet been
analyzed and converted into intelligence product.

Resident director: Russian: "Rezident"; the chief of a
Soviet or Russian foreign intelligence group, the
rezidentura, operating under official cover from an
embassy.

Requirement: A general or specific request for
intelligence information made by a member of the
intelligence community.

Safe house: A seemingly innocent house, apartment or
premises maintained by an intelligence organization
for conducting clandestine or covert activity in
relative security.

Sanitize: To delete from or revise a report or
document to prevent identification of the intelligence
sources and methods that contributed to or are dealt
with in the report.

Secret writing: Messages written with an invisible
substance, ranging from lemon juice to sophisticated
chemicals that appear under certain conditions.

Sensitive: Requires special protection from
disclosure, which could cause embarrassment,
compromise or threat to the security of the sponsoring
power.

Sheep dipping: Using a military instrument (e.g an
airplane) or officer in clandestine operations,
usually in a civilian capacity or under civilian
cover, although the instrument or officer will
covertly retain its or his military ownership or
standing. Also, placing individuals in organizations
or groups in which they can become active in order to
establish credentials so that they can be used to
collect information of intelligence interest on
similar groups.

Shoe: False passport.

SIGINT: Signals intelligence. The interception,
processing, analysis, and dissemination of information
derived from foreign electrical communications and
other signals; includes communications intelligence
(see COMINT) and electronics intelligence (see ELINT).

Sleeper: A previously placed spy ready to be activated
at a suitable moment.

Source: A person, device, system or activity from
which intelligence information is obtained.

Spook: American slang for a spy.

Sterilize: To remove from material to be used in overt
and clandestine actions any marks or devices that can
identify it as originating with the sponsoring
organization or nation.

Strategic intelligence: Intelligence required for the
formation of policy and military plans and operations
at the national and international levels.

Stringer: An occasional or free-lance spy; same term
as is used for a free-lance journalist.

Surveillance: Systematic monitoring or observation of
a target.

Swallow: Russian for a female seducer used to lure a
man into a honey trap; generally in plentiful supply
among the Russian nationals employed at the U.S.
Embassy in Moscow.

Swim: To travel (Russian).

Tactical intelligence: Intelligence supporting
military plans and operations at the military unit
level. Tactical intelligence and strategic
intelligence differ only in scope, point of view, and
level of employment.Take, the. Intelligence fruits of
spying.

Target: A person, agency, facility, area, or country
against which intelligence operations are directed.

Targeting: With regard to COMINT, the intentional
selection and/or collection of telecommunications for
intelligence purposes.

Target of opportunity: An entity (e.g., government
entity, installation, political organization, or
individual) that becomes available to an intelligence
agency or service by chance, and provides the
opportunity for the collection of needed information.

Tapping: Telephonic intercepts.

Terminated with Extreme Prejudice: American slang for
murdered.

Tradecraft: The techniques of espionage; also, the
technical equipment used in such activity, such as
electronic eavesdropping equipment and miniaturized
radios.

Turned: Persuaded or bribed to change sides.

Walk-in: Anyone who walks in volunteering services or
information, usually a foreigner who enters another
nations' embassy.

Watchers: Officers keeping persons under surveillance.

Watch list: A list of words, such as names, entities
or phrases, that can be employed by a computer to
select required information from a mass of data.

Wet job: Russian: "Mokri dela" ["wet affair"], an
operation in which blood is shed, a murder.

Witting: Knowing, conscious as in a "witting
conspirator."