Intelligence Threat Assessments

Intelligence Threat Handbook

Interagency OPSEC Support Staff

June 2004

Table of Contents

Title, Overview (500 KB PDF file)

The Changing Nature of the Intelligence Environment

Foreign Espionage (3.5 MB PDF file)
The "Classical" Method of Targeting the United States: Russian Intelligence Organizations
A Different Approach to Targeting the United States: China's Intelligence Collection

Economic Espionage (2 MB PDF file)
Costs of Economic Espionage
The Outsider Threat - Foreign or Domestic Competitors
The Outsider Threat - Through Unwitting Accomplices
The Outsider Threat - From Foreign Intelligence Services
The Insider Threat - Moles
The Insider Threat - Espionage Entrepreneurs
Developing a Countermeasures Strategy
Outsider Threat Indicators
Insider Threat Indicators

Computers and the Internet (1.5 MB PDF file)
History of Internet Security
Threats to Computer Network Security
Website Content and OPSEC
Roots of Network Vulnerability
Outsider Attack Techniques
Insider Attack Techniques
Countermeasures

Intelligence Collection Disciplines

Selected Supplemental Intelligence Service Information (1.2 MB PDF file)

Russian Federation
People's Republic of China
Cuba
North Korea

The Economic Espionage Act of 1996 (230 KB PDF file)

Finding Information and Assistance (800 KB PDF file)

Selected Readings

Footnotes