Intelligence Collection & Analysis Course
Thursday October 3rd 2013
10 – 6
Course description:
The condensed Intelligence Collection & Analysis Course (ICAC) is a foundational level course that will teach you some necessary collection and analysis skills. The ICAC helps Patriots make sense of their communities and operating environments, with a focus on post-SHTF.
Collection
– Fundamentals of Human Intelligence (HUMINT)
– Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) Collection
– Collection Plans
– Interviewing and Tactical Questioning
Analysis
– Intro to Intelligence & Critical Thinking
– Intelligence Preparation of the Battlefield (*time dependent*)
– HUMINT Source Rating and Feedback
– Actionable Intelligence
– Intelligence Gaps & Collection Requirements
– Analysis and Control Element (ACE) Team Building
There are a limited number of seats available for this course.
In keeping with our motto that “Every Patriot is a Sensor”, it’s incumbent on all Patriots to collect information of intelligence value when able. On a tactical or community level, most collection should be passive instead of active. By passive collection, I mean collecting information that you overhear or come into contact with in the normal course of your duties; you’re not going out of your way to gather information. If everyone was James Bond, there’d be thousands of 007 movies. The best thing to do is unless you have been tasked to satisfy an intelligence requirement, to stay out of the way. There’s no sense in fifteen “collectors” asking the same individual about the same information. Chances are good that you’ll screw up the source, especially an unwitting source.
So it’s up to the ACE to task out collection to specific collectors on specific topics. Task the sheriff’s deputy to collect on the activities of the sheriff’s department. Task the armory neighbor to collect on the activities of the local National Guard armory. Don’t task the grocery store clerk to collection on what the sheriff’s department or the National Guard armory is doing. The grocery store clerk doesn’t have the placement and access to the information we’re looking for (unless we want to know of anyone making exceptionally large purchases, say, to sustain a force in the field).
Active collection – tactical questioning, interviewing, and “interrogation” – should be done by trained collectors, or at least with people with a modicum of understanding of what they’re doing and how it should be done. They must have placement and access to the information we’re looking for. It’s the same as the “gunfighter” concept: just because you have an AR-15 doesn’t make you a gunfighter. In fact, just like a guy who doesn’t know his way around a rifle who has a higher chance of causing or sustaining a casualty than being effective, so does the average person have a higher chance of spooking or tipping off an unwitting source than successfully collecting information of intelligence value.
Tactical questioning.
