Intelligence and Secret Service Definition of Terms
Intelligence and Secret Service Definition of Terms
Intelligence and Secret Service Definition of Terms
1. Overt/Open – overt info. Are obtained from open and easily available sources like
magazines, reports and files.
2. Covert/Close
1. Regular
2. Secondary
3. Emergency
1. Selection
2. Investigation
3. Approach
4. Testing
Briefs – the form in which the finished product of intelligence is presented to the commander in
the police department.
Ciples – are fundamental guides to action, broad statement of truth from which others are
derived.
Coding – is the process of putting the codes and ciphers to plain text message.
Criminal Syndicate – it is a stable business with violence applied and directed at unwelcome
competitors.
Criminal World – the social organization of criminals having its own social classes.
Cryptoanalysis – is the process of putting the plain text message to codes and cipher.
Cryptograph – the art and science of making, devising, inventing, or protecting codes and cipher.
Counter Intelligence – type of intelligence activity which deals with defending the organization
againsts it criminal activities.
1. Physical Security – a system of barrier placed between the potential intruder and the
material to be protected.
2. Personnel Security – includes all security measures designed to prevent unsuitable
individuals of doubtful loyalty from gaining access to classified matter,securing facilities
and to prevent the appointment, employment, or retention as employees of such
individuals.
3. Operational Security – measures taken in conducting operations or action in a secure and
efficient manner.
4. Security Survey/Inspection – conducted in order to assist the chief of office in
determining the security measures required to protect key installation from possible
sabotage, espionage, subversion and unauthorized disclosure of or access to classified
defense information or materials.
5. Community Security – is the protection resulting from all measures designed to deny
unauthorized person information of value which may be derived from the possession
and study of communications or to mislead unauthorized persons and the interpretation
of the result of such study.
Covert Operation – if the information is obtained without the knowledge of the person against
whom the information or document may be used or if the method or procurement is done not
in an open manner.
1. Top Secret
2. Secret
3. Confidential
4. Restricted
Evaluation – it is the critical appraisal of information as a basis for its subsequent interpretation
which includes determining the pertinence of information and the reliability of the source.
- to judge the information as to its truthfulness or importance.
Financial Gain – the most common reason why an informer is giving information.
Information – are knowledge, data, news, opinion or the like transmitted from one person to
another.
Integrate – to make the entire or all the information the subject matter.
Interpret – to explain the meaning or to expand the information from the unknown to known.
Intelligence – product resulting from the collecting information concerning an actual and
potential situation and condition relating to foreign activities and to foreign or enemy held
areas.
Kinds Of Surveillance
1. Surveillance of place
2. Tailing or shadowing
3. Undercover investigation or Roping
Line Intelligence – types of intelligence which is of immediate nature and necessary for more
effective police planning and operation.
Method of Casing
Need To Know Principle – in intelligence dissemination, even a ranking law enforcer who has no
business on the classified information is not furnished the report.
OB File – identification, location, and knowing the intents of criminal syndicates, notorious
characters and even people with subversive desires must be made available for use.
Order Of Battle – an intelligence document describing the identity, strength, command structure
and disposition of the enemy/criminals.
Organized crime – it is the combination of two or more persons for the purpose of establishing
criminal activity.
Overt Operation – if the information or document are procured openly with out regard as to
whether the subject of the investigation becomes knowledgeable of the purpose for which it is
being gathered.
Safe House – a clandestine place where the intelligence agent and his superior meet.
Stool Pidgeon – an individual who sells information to different groups of law enforcers.
Strategic Intelligence – intelligence which is primarily long range in nature with little or no
immediate practical value.
Surveillance – to gather general information over a wide area and takes a longer time frame.
Wilhelm Von Stieber – a CIA intelligence officer who spied for soviet union from 1985 – 1994, he
had perpetrated the costliest breach of security in the agency's history.