DoD working on new human intelligence policy

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DoD working on new human intelligence policy
By John T. Bennett - Staff writer
Posted : Wednesday Aug 6, 2008 5:56:04 EDT

The Bush administration later this year will issue a revised version of the Pentagon’s internal policy that guides how military entities carry out human intelligence operations. The guidance is still being prepared and should be formally approved by senior Defense Department “in the next few months,” Mike Pick, a senior official with the new Defense Counterintelligence and Human Intelligence Center, told reporters at a briefing Tuesday.

The current directive was approved on Dec. 18, 1992, and is titled, “Centralized Management of Department of Defense Human Intelligence (HUMINT) Operations.”

But Pick said the DoD human intelligence policy is being rewritten to account for the major overhaul of the U.S. intelligence community orchestrated by the Bush administration in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. For instance, the new national intel apparatus features a Director of National Intelligence and an undersecretary of defense for intelligence.

The rewrite is intended “to just bring it up to date,” Pick said. Meantime, a new shop is being established within the Defense Intelligence Agency to replace the Counterintelligence Field Activity (CIFA), which the Pentagon shuttered this week. Army Maj. Gen. Theodore Nicholas has been tapped as the center’s director.

The counter and human intelligence center will act “as a traffic cop” that will oversee and coordinate those two missions across the military, DoD intel officials told reporters during the same briefing. Its predecessor began to take fire in 2005 when it was discovered CIFA had kept information about antiwar activists in one of its databases.


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