PROPOSALS FOR UPGRADING INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY EFFORTS DIRECTED AGAINST INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM

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• Publication Date: April 21, 1982
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21 April 1982
PROPOSALS FOR UPGRADING INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY EFFORTS
DIRECTED AGAINST INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS ..................................... i
INTRODUCTION ................................................... 1
PROGRESS SINCE 1977 ............................................ 1
PRESENT ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT ............................ 4
INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY CONCERNS AND INFORMATION GAPS........... 7
Concerns .................................................. 7
Gaps ...................................................... 8
CURRENT PRIORITY LEVELS ........................................ 9
COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS ........................................ 10
Collection ................................................ 10
HUMINT ............................................... 10
SIGINT ............................................... 17
IMAGERY .............................................. 20
Analysis .................................................. 21
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CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
International terrorism, which is both an intelligence and a
counterintelligence problem, poses a complex collection and analytic challenge
for the Intelligence Community. The numbers and diversity of terrorist
groups, the often sporadic nature and transnational flow of terrorist group
activities, and the worldwide dispersion of terrorist group operational areas,
makes it an elusive target. Because international terrorism is a government-
wide problem, it also poses an equally imposing management challenge--one
which has grown steadily as the Washington counterterrorism network
particularly the non-intelligence portion of it, has expanded.
The individual departments and agencies of the Intelligence Community are
better equipped today to address the problem of international terrorism than
they were five years ago when the first study of this type was undertaken.
This has been a slow process, however, impeded to a considerable degree both
by organizational shifts in the Community and by inertia with regard to the
management aspects of the problem, the latter fueled by a lack of firm
guidance based on a well-defined national counterterrorism policy. The
increased priorities accorded the problem since 1979, as well as increases in
the threat itself, have fostered organizational shifts that have tended to
focus departmental efforts more on international terrorism and paved the way
for the direction of additional collection and analytic resources against the
problem. Moreover, a wide-ranging series of additional pertinent
enhancements, prt
ly in the collection arena, are presently either under
way or planned. Despi
te these improvements, the Community's overall capabilities with
regard to international terrorism remain limited. This is due in large part
to the scope and nature of terrorism itself, but also to some extent to the
fragmented approach the Community continues to take to the problem. To be
sure, collection and analytic problems abound which additional resources, both
manpower and dollars, would alleviate. But there are long-standing questions
of coordination of effort--both within and outside the Community--that should
be resolved first in order to promote improved effectiveness and better use of
existin resources against the terrorism problem.
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