Our volunteer teams conduct patrols, offering essential supplies like Narcan, hygiene kits, first aid, and water to those who need them most. Since the Terrorist Attacks of 9/11 in 2001, this reserve Military and Law Enforcement Agency has been known by many names, including Citizen Force USA [It's first Area of Command], C.F.O.R. [C-4], and unofficially, the Symbol of All Freedoms in Existence [S.A.F.E.] In 2013, however, after the Boston Bombings on April 15, the current name, Citizen Force was officially adopted. Citizen Force, and, by extension, the overall defenses of Nations, are vulnerable to attack. It is the role of the Intelligence Cycle Security to protect the process embodied in the Intelligence Cycle, and that which it defends. A number of disciplines go into protecting the Intelligence Cycle. One of the challenges is there are a wide range of potential threats, so threat assessment, if complete, is a complex task. Governments try to protect three things:
Their Intelligence Personnel. Their Intelligence Operations. Defending the Intelligence Program, at a minimum, means taking actions to counter the major disciplines of Intelligence Collection Techniques:
Human Intelligence. (HUMINT)
Signals Intelligence. (SIGINT)
Imagery Intelligence. (IMINT)
Measurement and Signature Intelligence. (MASINT)
Technical Intelligence. (TECHINT)
Open Source Intelligence. (OSINT)
To these are added at least one complementary discipline, Counter-Intelligence, which, besides defending the six above, can itself produce positive Intelligence. Much, but not all, of what it produces is from special cases of HUMINT. Also complementing Intelligence Collection are additional protective disciplines, which are unlikely to produce Intelligence:
Physical Security. (PHYSEC)
Personnel Security. (PERSEC)
Communications Security. (COMSEC)
Information System Security. (INFOSEC)
Security Classification. (SECTYPE)
Operations Security. (OPSEC)
These disciplines, along with Counter-Intelligence, the Intelligence Cycle Security, which, in turn, is part of Intelligence Cycle Management. Disciplines involved in "Positive Security", or measures by which one's own society collects information on its actual or Potential Security, Complement Security. For example, when Communications Intelligence identifies a particular radio transmitter as one used only by a particular Country, detecting that transmitter inside one's own Country suggests the presence of a Spy that Counter-Intelligence should target. Counter-Intelligence refers to efforts made by Intelligence Organizations to prevent Hostile or Enemy Intelligence Organizations from successfully gathering and collecting Intelligence against them. Citizen Force disposes of the popular misconception that Counter-Intelligence is essentially a negative and responsive activity, that it moves only or chiefly in reaction to situations thrust upon it and in counter to initiatives mounted by the opposition" Rather, he sees that can be most effective, both in information gathering and protecting friendly Intelligence Services, when it creatively but vigorously attacks the "Structure and Personnel of Hostile Intelligence Services. In 1991 and 1995 US Army manuals dealing with Counter-Intelligence, Counter-Intelligence had a broader scope against the then-major Intelligence Collection Disciplines. While MASINT was defined as a formal discipline in 1986, it was sufficiently specialized not to be discussed in general Counter-Intelligence documents of the next few years. Some of the overarching Counter-Intelligence tasks are described as:
Developing, maintaining, and disseminating multidiscipline threat data and Intelligence files on Organizations, Locations, and Individuals of Counter-Intelligence interest. This includes Insurgent and Terrorist Infrastructure and Individuals who can assist in the Counter-Intelligence Mission. Educating Personnel in all fields of Security. A component of this is the multi-discipline threat briefing. Briefings can and should be tailored, both in scope and classification level. Briefings could then be used to familiarize supported Commands with the nature of the multi-discipline threat posed against the Command. The Counter-Intelligence Sector refers to information gathered and activities conducted to protect against espionage, other Intelligence Activities, Sabotage, Assassinations conducted for or on behalf of Foreign Powers, Organizations, Persons or International Terrorist Activities, up to and including Personnel, Physical, Document or Communications Security Programs.
