![]() ![]() This is fraught with analytical issues – motive, understanding, deception etc – but this is why people should be trained to collect.Ĭompare that to being able to successfully gain access to a targets encrypted communications – you catch them in an unguarded moment, saying things over a medium they have assumed is secure. Most of the time you are reporting on what Person X claimes to have heard or seen Person Y do. With HUMINT we (humans) are more used to it and its the first thing that springs to mind when creating defences against counter penetration, sources are generally unreliable and its very, very rare to get a direct access. I dont mean to disparage IMINT but I have had less exposure to it, thats all. If I forced to choose, as a collector I would say HUMINT (but that is simply because I know how to do that) and as an Intelligence consumer I would ask for SIGINT (because in my experience this has proven the most valuable). Each have strengths and weaknesses and should be used together. It is also certainly true that some other source intelligence (SIGINT/IMINT) has been spoofed to spectacular effect, but I really fail to see that one dominates the others significantly. It is certainly a lot sexier and more publicised that vital intelligence comes from human sources. ![]() The exact same claim can be made by SIGINT and IMINT (and probably any other categories that are now in use). HUMINT is indeed a valuable part of any intelligence collection plan but it is not better than any other source by virtue of its source alone. Unusually, I think I am going to have to fly against the wind with some of the comments made here. The security man, along with everyone else in the embassy, knew that this particular “political officer” was actually the Central Intelligence Agency’s “Station Chief,”ĭid the CIA use “political officer” as a cover? Do they exist at the American Embassy? For some reason I had assumed this was something only the USSR did. ![]()
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