INTEL REVIEWER INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY – integrated and neatly

TENETS OF INTELLIGENCE organized entity composed of units or agencies, which

1. Timely have intelligence interest and responsibilities.
2. Accurate INFORMER – one who gives information for a reward or
3. Usable price.
4. Complete INFORMANT – anyone who can furnish information.
5. Relevant

AXIOMS OF INTELLIGENCE – Facts that require no proof TRADECRAFT – any technique or trick that substantiates
because truth of these statements is obvious. a view of the work as a skilled occupation or craft.
1. Intelligence is crucial to internal security. It can 1. SURVEILLANCE – investigative activity of
provide warnings of threats, detailed keeping any person/people, place, or thing
knowledge of organizations, personnel, plans, under physical observation.
and actions. SURVEILLANT - person who performs and maintains
2. Intelligence is essential to all types of surveillance.
operations. SUBJECT – person, place or thing being observed.
3. Intelligence is the responsibility of all CONVOY – a confederate of the subject who follows
intelligence agencies. him in order to determine if he is under surveillance.
4. Intelligence of the government must be
superior to that of the enemy. 2. OBSERVATION AND DESCRIPTION – ODEX is an
individual’s awareness of his surroundings.
PRINCIPLES OF INTEL OPERATIONS 3. CASING - is the visual inspection of areas or
1. Intelligence is continuous. installation in order to determine its suitability
2. Intelligence operations and tactical operations for operational use – such as sites for safe
are inter-dependent. houses, personal meetings, caching, trainings of
3. Intelligence must be useful. agents, communications, or operational
4. Intelligence must be timely. activities.
5. Intelligence operations must be flexible. 4. INTERVIEW and ELICITATION - information is
6. Intelligence operations require imagination and obtained from another person who is aware
foresight that he is giving wanted information.
7. Intelligence must fit the needs of the user 5. INTERROGATION - a controlled conversation to
8. Intelligence requires careful and thorough obtain information.
planning 6. PROVOCATION - an action taken to incite
reaction by a known or assumed adversary,
CATEGORIES OF FINISHED INTELLIGENCE interrogee, source, or subject.
1. BASIC INTELLIGENCE – provides the 7. BRIEFING AND DEBREFING - Act of extracting
fundamental and factual reference material on from an Agent maximum amount of pertinent
a country or issue. and useful information obtained on a collection
2. CURRENT INTELLIGENCE – looks at day to day mission.
events; and or reports on new developments. 8. DOCEX - process of analyzing a document for
3. ESTIMATIVE – intelligence looks at what might extracting information of intelligence value.
happen, judges’ probable outcomes. 9. Informants / Agent Management (HUMINT)
4. WARNING INTELLIGENCE – gives urgent notice 10. Background Investigation
that something might happen. 11. Surreptitious Entry
5. RESEARCH -intelligence is an in-depth study of
an issue.
6. SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL – intelligence is
information on foreign intelligence.
INTELLIGENCE CYCLE – process by which information is PHASE 3: INFORMATION PROCESSING AND
acquired, converted into intelligence, and made COLLATION: ( Phase in which information becomes
available to policymakers. intelligence )
RECORDING - Reduction of information into writing or
CONSUMERS, DECISION-MAKERS, POLICY-MAKERS, some other form of graphical representation and the
USERS – from these people come the requirements that arranging of information into groups of related items,
initiate the cycle. and entered into the database.
Who are they? COLLATION - filtering and sorting information, including
1. President / Commander in Chief deciding what is potentially relevant to the needs.
2. Heads of Governmental Departments
3. AFP Commanders MEANS OF RECORDING
4. Head of the PNP and subordinate Directors 1. Intelligence Journal – chronological log of
down to the lowest Unit Commanders or Chiefs significant intelligence activities covering a
5. Local Government Units stated period usually 24 hours.
6. Intelligence Planners / Directors 2. Intelligence Workbook – a systematic
arrangement of subject heading which aids in
PHASE 1 : PLANNING AND DIRECTION OF sorting, evaluation, and interpreting
information in the preparation of intelligence
THE COLLECTION EFFORTS
reports.
 Normally performed by Intelligence Staff
3. Enemy Situation Map – a graphic
Officers
representation of the current enemy situation.
 Management of the entire effort
4. Periodic Status Report on Threat Groups
 A system for analyzing requirements.
(PSRTG)
 Management of the entire cycle
5. Identification Files – files of criminal
COLLECTION PLAN – a dynamic tool used to coordinate
personalities, location of illegal or suspected
and integrate the efforts of all collection units and
illegal activities, vehicle registry used by
agencies.
criminals, and other threat groups, list of and
INTELLIGENCE COLLECTION PLAN – systemic process
data on dubious organizations, telephone
used by most modern forces and intelligence services.
numbers of suspects, criminal, and other
suspicious police characters.
FIVE STAGES IN ICP DEVELOPMENT
1. Requirements/Objectives
PHASE 4 : ANALYSIS AND INTELLIGENCE PRODUCTION
2. Assets, resources, and deterrents
 is the heart of intelligence.
3. Priorities
4. Tasks
ANALYSIS - determination of the significance of the
5. Evaluation and Updates
information relative to the information and the
intelligence already known and drawing deductions
PHASE 2 : COLLECTION OF INFORMATION
about the probable meaning of the evaluated
 Refers to the systematic exploitation of sources
information.
of information by collection agencies and the
delivery of the information obtained to the
PARAMETERS OF EVALUATION
proper intelligence unit or agency.
1. Pertinence – determination of the area of
TYPES OF SOURCES
operation and who needs it, if so by whom and
1. Open Sources – 90% are derived from these.
when.
2. Non-Open Sources – 10%, requires covert and
2. Reliability – determination of the sources of
clandestine operations.
information by which it was collected and
evaluated.
3. Accuracy – probable truth of the information.
RELIABILITY OF SOURCE (Letter) PHASE 5 : DISSEMINATION AND USE
A – Completely Reliable - given when it is known that  Delivery of intelligence to users in a suitable
the source has long experience and extensive form via courier or personal contact.
background with the type of information reported  The distribution of raw or finished intelligence.
B – Usually Reliable - indicates source of known
integrity
C – Fairly Reliable- indicates source of known integrity PHASE 6: EVALUATION AND FEEDBACK
D – Not usually Reliable - Significant doubt about  Continuous assessment of intelligence
authenticity, trustworthiness, or competency operations during each phase of the intelligence
E – Unreliable - Lacking in authenticity, trustworthiness, cycle to ensure that the commander’s
and competency; history of invalid information. intelligence requirements are being met.
F – Reliability Cannot Be Judged - Lacking in  Assess the value of the intelligence that has
authenticity, trustworthiness, and competency, history been provided.
of invalid information.

ACCURACY OF INFORMATION (Numeral)

1 – Confirmed by Other Sources - information
originates from a source other than that of already
existing information on the same subject.
2 – Probably True - if no proof can be established, and if
no reason exists to suspect that the reported
information comes from the same source
3 – Possibly True - if it reveals that the reported
information, on which no further information is yet
available, are compatible with the previously observed
behavior of the target.
4 – Doubtfully True - reported but unconfirmed
information
5 – Improbable - reported information which is not
confirmed by available data and contradicts the
experience assumed to be reliable
6 – Truth Cannot be Judged - if the investigation of a
report reveals that a basis for rating 1 to 5 is not given,
the reported information is classified as “truth cannot
be judged.”

STEPS IN THE INTERPRETATION OF INFORMATION

Assessment – sifting and sorting of evaluated
information to isolate insignificant elements with
respect to the mission and operation of the unit.
Integration – combination of elements isolated in
analysis with other known information to form a logical
picture on hypothesis of enemy activities or influence of
operational area characteristics on the mission of the
unit.
Deduction – designed to answer the question “what this
information means in relation to the enemy situation,
weather, and area of operation.