Test 4 Flashcards
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The constant production of intelligence analysis has a lulling effect on the consumer
True
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Intelligence analysis is free; never ordered and never paid for.
True
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Intelligence analysts rarely write short term reports because long term analysis dominates
False. Short term reports (Estimates) are now oriented and in demand. Long term is just lip service
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Some argue that the intelligence community fails to supply long term analysis.
False. Some argue that NIEs take long term form and are in production
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Intelligence analysts don’t like having to make changes in their estimates fearing for their credibility
True
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Analysts tend to err on the side if brevity leaving managers with little to edit
False. Analysts tend to not err on the side of brevity, and are admonished to tell the miracles, not the lives of the saints involved in making them happen
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Intelligence professionals prefer to be seen jaded as apposed to naive 90% of the time
True
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To deal with new intelligence situation, intelligence producers remain alert and report on issues and/or non-developments
True
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Analysts work with much feedback and tend to make reflections when moving from one cruises to the next
False. There is not much feedback or self examination
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The NSC has provided oversight guidance to intelligence analysts
True
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The PFIAB was created in 1961 to provide advice to the president regarding intelligence matters
True
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Covert Action is viewed as a unnecessary tool of US policy
False. It’s is a Repugnant philosophy and an important US policy tool
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Since the 1970’s plausible deniability has been replaced with presentable accountabilty
True
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The FBI conducts a majority of covert actions
False. CIA
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The attack on the World Trade Center gave Washington a new enemy and changed conception of how to deal with that new enemy with emphasis on Special Operation Forces
True
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There are specific international laws banning assassinations
False.
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The use of excessive, intrusive intelligence has done much to discredit the west, making it’s secrets seem little different from KGB
True
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Over 60% of soviet diplomats were believed to be spies during the Cold War
True
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Intelligence agents act as miles, and penetrate the enemy as an agent in place to obtain foreign intelligence
True
The consumers of intelligence analysis
Policy makers
According to St. Aquinas, the characteristics of acceptable war
Ordered by a proper authority
Cause must be just
Intention of promoting good or avoiding evil
Types of covert actions
Propaganda
Political operations
Economic operations
Paramilitary
During 1988, covert operations made this country worse off
Panama
During the Kennedy administration, this man was on he top if the assassination list
Fidel Castro
What are the different names for assassination
Executive action
Terminate with extreme prejudice
Neutralize
What has made assassinations easier to commit?
Technology in the form of long range missiles
The protection of Americas secrets from hostile, even sometimes friendly foreign powers
Counterintelligence
A person who manages a spy
Handler
A foreign agent leaves their homeland and relocates to another country, and then they give secrets to the country they move to is known as a …
Defector with knowledge
What does a mole serve?
Penetrate and obtain intelligence
Sabotage and alert
Under which conditions does the government believe a threat can be terminated
American law, when in the face of immediate mortal danger – Self Defense. Police officers and soldiers in war are generally excused as doing their jobs, except when action doesn’t follow immediate threat or danger
Operations meant to block, disrupt or destroy intelligence operations
Counterintelligence operations
Under what condition would most people accept covert action
When approved by president or congress, objectives are clearly spelled out, high probability of success, minimal loss of life, no economic threat, no psychological threat to citizens
Americas new enemy, post Cold War
Al-Qaeda
What should be considered when deciding to use covert actions
Just cause Just intention Proper authority Last resort Probability of success Proportionality Discrimination and control
Who established the counterintelligence center in 1986?
William J. Casey
Counterintelligence efforts
Counterespionage (offensive)
Security (Defense)
Surreptitious surveillance of various kinds, interrogation
