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CI is defined as the effort made by intelligence bodies to prevent their enemy counterparts from successfully gathering and collecting useful intelligence. It is the role of intelligence cycle security to maintain the process embodied in the intelligence cycle by combining a variety of disciplines which often have to monitor a wide range of potential threats, making complete threat assessment a very complex task.
Most governments make Counterintelligence agencies separate and very distinct from their intelligence collection services. In the majority of countries, the counterintelligence is spread across several organizations and there is frequently a domestic CI service which is perhaps part of a larger law enforcement organization.
Great Britain utilizes this model with great success with their separate internal intel service known as MI5. Although MI5 does not have any direct police powers, it works in conjunction with Special Branch (an elite section of the British police), they can carry out arrests and conduct warranted searches.
Military organizations often have their own counterIntel forces, capable of conducting offensive, protective and counter-espionage operations. The term ‘counter-espionage’ is generally specific to countering human intel, but, since virtually all offensive CI entails exploiting human intel, the term ‘offensive counterintelligence’ is used often to avoid confusion.
In modern models of practice, a number of missions are associated with counterintelligence. Firstly, ‘defensive analysis’ or looking for vulnerabilities in one’s own organization , and, with due regard for risk versus benefit, closing any discovered gaps.
Secondly, ‘offensive counterespionage’ is the set of tactics that neutralizes discovered foreign intelligence service (FIS) personnel and arrests them or, in the case of politicians, expels them. Alternatively, it exploits FIS personnel to get intelligence for the allied side and or actively exploits the FIS personnel to harm the hostile FIS.
Now that threat is no longer restricted to the FIS, contemporary counterIntel missions have broadened somewhat exponentially. Threats have multiplied to include threats from non-national or trans-national groups, including internal enemies, organized crime and transnational based groups. Yet, ‘FIS’ remains the usual term for defining the threat faced by counterintelligence agencies.
Finally, ‘counterintelligence force protection source operations’ (CFSO) are human source operations conducted abroad and are intended to bridge the existing void in national level coverage in securing a field station or force from terrorism and espionage.
With todays modern technology, the spy gadgets of fictional spies such as James Bond and Jason Bourne are in reach to those of us not employed in her majesty’s secret service -here are afew examples that will allow you to listen in.
The ‘usb spy cobra’ installs a secret monitoring programme onto thecomputer, which will remain undetected by the computers firewall and anti-virus software, recording emails, keystrokes, IM conversations and websites visited on the computer.
Listening in to a mobile phone has never been easier than with the MobileMaster, which will notify you of when your target receives a call but also allow you to listen in, and will also sound the alarm when if the device is found.
Need to track the suspect but also hear what hes saying in the car? The GPS Maptracker will send the exact location of the car its planted in to your mobile, so you can follow them to their secret volcano base at a safe distance.
The UHF ballpoint pen contains a concealed microphone and transmitter and isolates any interference to get the clearest sound avaiable.
Featuring 37 hours worth of recording time and picking up sounds over a distance of 15ft, the Tube keychain voice recorder isone of the smallest voice recorders in the world.
Other interesting spy equipment that could come in handy.
Sneaking in under the cover of darkness? The Viper goggles are the lightest on the market at 9oz, water and fog resistant and come with easily adjustable headgear.
The pocket sized bug detector known as ‘Laserscan’ will scan the room and inform you of how bugged your room is, detecting all wired and wireless devices.
the ‘air freshner full system’ can be placed in any room to give you both audio and visual information of whats going on, whilst disgused as an airfreshner.
That text message that cracks the case wide open been deleted? The Textspy can recover deleted SIM card contents- text messages, numbers etc and send them to your phone within seconds.
with a 20ft radius and 2gb of memory, the Covert USB datastock voice recorder can record upto 5 hours of audio information and 33 hours of storage capacity.