Counterintelligence Perspective

Plan of Action: Counterintelligence considerations must be included in mission planning to ensure that the operational community is aware of adversarial attempts to manipulate, deceive, or thwart their missions. As operations progress, a continued counterintelligence perspective also permits mission planners to take advantage of intelligence gathering opportunities that would otherwise be missed. This perspective is critical as we conduct our analysis of adversarial intelligence services and their relationship to terrorist organizations. In coordination with the National Counterterrorism Center, the counterintelligence community will produce an actionable analysis to support the disruption of terrorist operations and safeguard U.S. intelligence

interests. This is both a collection challenge that the counterintelligence community must support and an analytical challenge that we must meet. We will conduct a common effort to address the most critical gaps in our knowledge of these targets, and, based on those gaps, we will contribute to the integrated collection strategies of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). We will also provide strategic analysis, counterintelligence insight, and policy options to the National Security Council, the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board, and the DNI to support their national security deliberations. We will report our assessments of the intelligence environment on a regular basis and will suggest actionable alternatives as appropriate. Even with the most rigorous of security and counterintelligence practices, we can expect compromises of classified information and operations. We must, therefore, conduct prompt and appropriately coordinated damage assessments that provide a strategic evaluation of the risk to U.S. national security while initiating actions to mitigate damage and prevent further