How should intelligence agencies best handle the inherent tensions associated with sharing intelligence among agencies while also protecting the information from too much harmful disclosure?

Task 1 – 1 page

How should intelligence agencies best handle the inherent tensions associated with sharing intelligence among agencies while also protecting the information from too much harmful disclosure?

Task 2 – 1 pages

Students will write a 1-2 page intel report on your country of your choosing from week 1; this is your intel collection assignment. Using various websites such as the State Department, FBI, CIA, news media, and other open sources, collect and gather intelligence about the country that you chose in the forum.

Each week you will report on the following topics:

Crime
Terrorism
Weather/Climate
Research and Development
Economics
Other Conflicts/War
Basically any news that is pertinent in that country. If there is nothing to report in a specific category please indicate this by saying in your report “Nothing significant to report”.
You will report on the same country every week and no two students will have the same country.

Task 3 – 2 pages

Read the chapters and answer each question below; these questions are also in the end of chapter sections. Submit your answers as a Word document.

Chapter 8
C8 Q1 – Which is easier to conduct: offensive counterintelligence or defensive counterintelligence? Why?
C8 Q2 – What might motivate an employee of a U.S intelligence agency to spy on behalf of another country?
C8 Q3 – What are the advantages and disadvantages of a country spreading disinformation?
Chapter 9
C9 Q1 – One section of this chapter asks whether, in the long term, covert operations have helped or hurt U.S. interests. What do you think? Why?
C9 Q3 – Some have argued that covert operations should be carried out exclusively by the military. Do you agree? Why or why not?

Last Completed Projects