5.1-5.6

Which group of individuals initiate requests for intelligence?

What is the purpose of the IC's issue coordinators?

What activities are involved in the collection stage of intelligence gathering?

What is the purpose of examining finished intelligence from previous cycles?

How many basic types of intelligence collection are there?

What is the role of policymakers in intelligence gathering?

What guides the collection strategies in intelligence gathering?

Which type of intelligence involves the interception of signals, whether between people, between machines, or a combination of both?

What is the term used for representations of objects reproduced electronically or by optical means on film, electronic display devices, or other media?

Which type of intelligence provides scientific and technical intelligence information used to locate, identify or describe distinctive characteristics of specific targets?

What is the term used for intelligence derived from human sources, which is the oldest method for collecting information?

What is the term used for publicly available information appearing in print or electronic form, including radio, television, newspapers, journals, the Internet, commercial databases, videos, graphics, and drawings?

What is the term used for imagery and geospatial data produced through an integration of imagery, imagery intelligence, and geographic information?

Which type of intelligence involves the physical or electronic collection of information, and the continued holding of acquired information?

Which regulations detail the procedures related to the collection and retention of information for the Intelligence Community?

What type of content is more dynamic than news media content or gray literature?

Why must the acquisition and retention of social media content be real-time and constant?

What are examples of long-form social media content in a different format?

What is the purpose of exploitation in the intelligence process?

What is one of the significant challenges associated with using OSINT products?

What are the three phases of exploitation in the intelligence process?

Which category of finished intelligence addresses day-to-day events?

What is the purpose of Warning Intelligence?

Which category of finished intelligence includes an examination of foreign technologies?

What is the purpose of Research Intelligence?

What is the final step in the dissemination process of intelligence products?

Who receives the finished intelligence on a daily basis?

What triggers the intelligence cycle again?

What is the purpose of evaluation and feedback in the intelligence process?

When should a dialog between intelligence consumers and producers occur?

Which category of finished intelligence provides an examination of the technical development, characteristics, performance, and capabilities of foreign technologies?

What is the purpose of the evaluation and feedback stage in the intelligence process?

When does the dissemination of finished intelligence occur?

What triggers the intelligence cycle again?

What is the term used for intelligence derived from human sources?

Who receives the finished intelligence on a daily basis?

What is the term used for representations of objects reproduced electronically or by optical means on film, electronic display devices, or other media?

What is the purpose of the IC's issue coordinators?

When should a dialog between intelligence consumers and producers occur?

During the planning and directing stage of the intelligence process, what guides the collection strategies?

What types of activities are involved in the collection stage of intelligence gathering?

How many basic types of intelligence collection are there?

What is the term used for the gathering of raw information from various sources?

Which group of individuals interact with policymakers to identify core concerns and information requirements?

What is the term used for the integration of imagery, imagery intelligence, and geographic information?

Which individuals initiate requests for intelligence?

What is the term used for publicly available information appearing in print or electronic form, including radio, television, newspapers, journals, the Internet, commercial databases, videos, graphics and drawings?

Which type of intelligence involves scientific and technical intelligence information used to locate, identify or describe distinctive characteristics of specific targets?

What is the term used for representations of objects reproduced electronically or by optical means on film, electronic display devices, or other media?

What is the term used for intelligence derived from human sources, the oldest method for collecting information?

What is the term used for imagery and geospatial data produced through an integration of imagery, imagery intelligence, and geographic information?

Which type of intelligence involves the interception of signals, whether between people, between machines, or a combination of both?

What is the term used for scientific and technical intelligence information used to locate, identify or describe distinctive characteristics of specific targets?

Which of the following is NOT a technique used in information filtering during the processing and exploitation stage of the intelligence process?

What is one of the challenges associated with using OSINT products?

What is the term used for verifying whether the information is what it says it is during the exploitation phase of the intelligence process?

What is the term used for determining whether the information is trustworthy during the exploitation phase of the intelligence process?

What is the term used for relaying subject-matter expertise to the ultimate consumer during the exploitation phase of the intelligence process?

What is the purpose of the analysis and production phase of the intelligence process?

What is encouraged for analysts to include in their assessments during the analysis and production phase of the intelligence process?

During the processing and exploitation phase of the intelligence process, what techniques are used to filter information?

What is one of the challenges associated with using OSINT products?

What is the purpose of the analysis and production phase of the intelligence process?

What is one of the techniques used in the exploitation phase of the intelligence process?

What is the purpose of contextualizing in the intelligence process?

What is one of the phases involved in the exploitation process?

What is one of the challenges associated with evaluating credibility in social media content?

Which group of individuals interact with policymakers to identify core concerns and information requirements?

What activities are involved in the collection stage of intelligence gathering?

What are the six basic types of intelligence collection?

What does the examination of finished intelligence from previous cycles lead to?

When is information acquired through activities such as interviews, technical and physical surveillance, human source operations, searches, and liaison relationships?

What guides the collection strategies in intelligence gathering?

What is the purpose of examining finished intelligence from previous cycles?

What is the term used for the physical or electronic collection of open source information?

Which type of intelligence involves the interception of signals, whether between people, between machines, or a combination of both?

What is the term used for the continued holding of acquired open source information?

Which type of intelligence provides representations of objects reproduced electronically or by optical means on film, electronic display devices, or other media?

What is the term used for intelligence derived from human sources?

What is the term used for publicly available information appearing in print or electronic form, including radio, television, newspapers, journals, the Internet, commercial databases, videos, graphics, and drawings?

What is the term used for imagery and geospatial data produced through an integration of imagery, imagery intelligence, and geographic information?

Which category of finished intelligence provides an examination of the technical development, characteristics, performance, and capabilities of foreign technologies?

What is the purpose of the evaluation and feedback stage in the intelligence process?

What is the purpose of the analysis and production phase of the intelligence process?

What is the term used for intelligence derived from human sources?

What is the term used for representations of objects reproduced electronically or by optical means on film, electronic display devices, or other media?

What is the term used for determining whether the information is trustworthy during the exploitation phase of the intelligence process?

What are the three phases of exploitation in the intelligence process?

What is one of the significant challenges associated with using OSINT products?

When should a dialog between intelligence consumers and producers occur?

True or false: The planning and directing stage involves determining the core concerns and information requirements of policymakers.

True or false: Collection is the stage where raw information is gathered from various sources.

True or false: The intelligence cycle begins with the examination of finished intelligence from previous cycles.

True or false: There are six basic types of intelligence collection.

True or false: Open, covert, electronic, and satellite sources can be used to gather information.

True or false: The collection stage involves activities such as interviews, surveillance, and human source operations.

True or false: The information gathered in the collection stage guides the production of appropriate intelligence products.

True or false: Social media content is more dynamic than news media content or gray literature.

True or false: Acquisition and retention of social media content must be real-time and constant.

True or false: Both long-form and short-form social media content can be presented in formats other than text.

True or false: Processing and exploitation involve synthesizing raw intelligence into a usable state.

True or false: Exploitation is also referred to as analysis.

True or false: Evaluating credibility of social media content is straightforward.

True or false: Contextualizing in the intelligence process involves relaying subject-matter expertise.

True or false: Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) refers to the interception of signals between people only?

True or false: Measurement and Signature Intelligence (MASINT) is used to locate, identify, or describe distinctive characteristics of specific targets?

True or false: Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) includes publicly available information in both print and electronic form?

True or false: Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT) involves the integration of imagery, imagery intelligence, and geographic information?

True or false: The collection of news media information for Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) is more challenging than the collection of gray literature?

True or false: Social media data can present legal issues related to the protection of U.S. persons?

True or false: The retention of news media information and gray literature for OSINT is equally challenging?

True or false: Dissemination is the process of distributing intelligence products to policymakers who requested them?

True or false: Finished intelligence is provided daily to the president and key national security advisers?

True or false: Current Intelligence addresses day-to-day events?

True or false: Estimative Intelligence looks backward to assess potential developments that could affect U.S. national security?

True or false: Warning Intelligence sounds an alarm or gives notice to policymakers?

True or false: Scientific and Technical Intelligence includes an examination of the technical development, characteristics, performance, and capabilities of foreign technologies?

True or false: Research Intelligence supports other finished intelligence products?

True or false: Evaluation & Feedback occurs before the intelligence has been received?

True or false: Feedback assesses the degree to which the finished intelligence addresses the needs of the intelligence consumer?

Dissemination is the process of distributing intelligence products to ______ who requested them.

Finished intelligence is provided daily to the ______ and key national security advisers who then make decisions based on this information.

These decisions may lead to requests for further examination, thus triggering the ______ cycle again.

There are five categories of finished intelligence. Current Intelligence: Addresses ______ events.

Estimative Intelligence: Looks forward to assessing potential ______ that could affect U.S. national security.

Warning Intelligence: Sounds an ______ or gives notice to policymakers.

Scientific and Technical Intelligence: Includes an examination of the technical development, characteristics, performance and capabilities of ______ technologies, including weapon systems or subsystems.

Research Intelligence: Supports other finished intelligence products (current, estimative, warning, and scientific and ______).

A dialog between intelligence consumers and producers should occur before and continue after the intelligence has been ______.

5.1. Planning and Directing: Determining what issues need to be addressed and what information must be gathered to provide the proper answers. Policymakers, including the president, his or her advisers, the National Security Council, and other major departments and agencies of government, initiate requests for intelligence. The IC’s issue coordinators interact with these officials to identify core concerns and information requirements. These needs then guide our collection strategies and allow us to produce the appropriate intelligence products. We begin by examining finished intelligence from previous cycles, which leads us to formulate a strategic plan for new intelligence gathering and analysis. 5.2. Collection: Gathering raw information from many different sources. In this stage, also known as data gathering, intelligence is acquired through activities, such as interviews, technical and physical surveillance, human source operations, searches, and liaison relationships. Information can be gathered from open, covert, electronic and satellite sources. There are six basic types of intelligence collection.

The IC’s issue coordinators interact with these officials to identify core concerns and information requirements. These needs then guide our ______ strategies and allow us to produce the appropriate intelligence products.

We begin by examining finished intelligence from previous cycles, which leads us to formulate a strategic plan for new intelligence gathering and ______.

Gathering raw information from many different sources. In this stage, also known as data gathering, intelligence is acquired through activities, such as interviews, technical and physical surveillance, human source operations, searches, and ______ relationships.

Information can be gathered from open, covert, electronic and ______ sources.

There are ______ basic types of intelligence collection.

Determining what issues need to be addressed and what information must be gathered to provide the proper answers. Policymakers, including the president, his or her advisers, the National Security Council, and other major departments and agencies of government, initiate requests for ______.

SIGINT involves the interception of ______

IMINT involves representations of objects reproduced electronically or by optical means on ______

MASINT is scientific and technical intelligence information used to locate, identify or describe distinctive characteristics of specific ______

HUMINT is intelligence derived from ______

OSINT is publicly available information appearing in print or electronic form, including radio, television, newspapers, journals, the Internet, commercial databases, videos, graphics, and ______

GEOINT involves imagery and geospatial data produced through an integration of imagery, imagery intelligence, and geographic ______

The collection phase of OSINT includes the identification of potentially useful information and the ______ of that material

Exploitation seeks to determine whether the information is what it purports to be and what its value is to the IC. Exploitation is also sometimes referred to as ______.

A great deal of time in analyzing OSINT must be spent on separating the reliable, 'good' intelligence from the ______.

The finished product should provide analytical conclusions guided by the ______ sources.

Evaluating credibility, like authentication, is fairly straightforward for traditional media content and gray literature but extremely difficult for ______ content.

Contextualizing allows the open-source analyst to relay subject-matter expertise to the ______ consumer.

Analysts integrate the data into a coherent whole, put the evaluated information in context, and produce finished intelligence that includes assessments of events and judgments about the implications of the information for the ______.

They are encouraged to include alternative scenarios in their assessments and to look for opportunities to warn about possible developments abroad that could either provide threats to or opportunities for, U.S. security and ______ interests.

Information filtering techniques include: Exploiting ______

Exploitation seeks to determine whether the information is what it purports to be and what its value is to the ______

One of the most significant challenges associated with using OSINT products is the sheer volume of information that is publicly available and the degrees of reliability inherent in that ______

Analyzing OSINT must be spent on separating the reliable, “good” intelligence from the ______

We break exploitation down into three phases: ______, evaluating credibility, and contextualizing

A credibility measure seeks to determine whether the information is trustworthy—that is, whether it was provided without intent to deny or deceive and whether its source has ______

Contextualizing allows the open-source analyst to relay subject-matter expertise to the ultimate ______

The IC’s issue coordinators interact with these officials to identify ______ concerns and information requirements.

We begin by examining finished intelligence from previous cycles, which leads us to formulate a strategic plan for new intelligence gathering and ______.

In this stage, also known as data gathering, intelligence is acquired through activities, such as interviews, technical and physical surveillance, human source operations, ______, and liaison relationships.

There are six basic types of ______ collection.

Dissemination is the process of distributing intelligence products to ______ who requested them.

There are ______ basic types of intelligence collection.

Determining what issues need to be addressed and what information must be gathered to provide the proper answers. Policymakers, including the president, his or her advisers, the National Security Council, and other major departments and agencies of government, initiate requests for ______.

Dissemination is the process of distributing intelligence products to ______ who requested them.

MASINT is scientific and technical intelligence information used to locate, identify or describe distinctive characteristics of specific ______.

How many basic types of intelligence collection are there?

What is one of the challenges associated with using OSINT products?

What is one of the significant challenges associated with using OSINT products?

Which category of finished intelligence provides an examination of the technical development, characteristics, performance, and capabilities of foreign technologies?

Which type of intelligence provides scientific and technical intelligence information used to locate, identify or describe distinctive characteristics of specific targets?

OSINT is publicly available information appearing in print or electronic form, including radio, television, newspapers, journals, the Internet, commercial databases, videos, graphics, and ______.

What is the purpose of the analysis and production phase of the intelligence process?

Signals Intelligence (SIGINT): The interception of ______, whether between people, between machines, or a combination of both

Imagery Intelligence (IMINT): Representations of objects reproduced electronically or by optical means on film, electronic display devices, or other ______

Measurement and Signature Intelligence (MASINT): Scientific and technical intelligence information used to locate, identify or describe distinctive characteristics of specific ______

Human-Source Intelligence (HUMINT): Intelligence derived from ______ sources, the oldest method for collecting information

Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT): Publicly available information appearing in print or electronic form, including radio, television, newspapers, journals, the Internet, commercial databases, videos, graphics and ______

Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT): Imagery and geospatial data produced through an integration of imagery, imagery intelligence, and geographic ______

The collection of social media data also raises legal issues related to the protection of U.S. ______