NCJ Number
149987
Journal
Police Journal Volume: 66 Issue: 3 Dated: (July-September 1993) Pages: 306- 309
Date Published
1993
Length
4 pages
Annotation
This article discusses the relationship between counter-intelligence and security in countering terrorism and presents a modality for cooperation between the two.
Abstract
Security services are necessary to monitor known or suspected terrorists and provide the controls to restrict their activities. Counter-intelligence agencies can infiltrate terrorist groups to destabilize and subvert them. Both are complementary forces but perform different operations. The objectives of counter-intelligence are to assess the country's vulnerability to foreign espionage, to watch for sabotage, and to identify those determined to undermine the established system of government. Security measures may be taken on the basis of counter-intelligence knowledge, but the function of the counter-intelligence activity proper is solely the production of knowledge about the plans, operations, and capabilities of organizations intent on subversive activities. Counter intelligence is conducted in three overlapping phases: detection, or the recognition of some actual or apparent evidence of subversive activity; investigation, or finding out more about this evidence; and research and analysis, which puts the information into such order that some use may be made of it. Detection techniques include surveillance; publicity (citizens made aware of the danger of subversive activities); and liaison, through which counter-intelligence agencies are afforded each other's cooperation and that of other public and private security agencies so as to maximize their range of observation for evidence of subversive activity or legal subversion.