Intelligence Agencies
Types of Intelligence
Intelligence
Concepts
The Cold War
The IC in the news
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This agency is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States tasked with advancing national security through collecting and analyzing intelligence from around the world and conducting covert operations 

What is the CIA?

100

The United States established medical intelligence after this pandemic

What is the Spanish Flu?

100

 the intelligence term for knowing more than your opponent

What is decision advantage?

100

the definition of the cold war including who was involved and the powers involved

What was the period of geopolitical tension marked by competition and confrontation between communist nations led by the Soviet Union and Western capitalist nations including the United States. (1946-1991)?


100

Medical intelligence is monitoring this pandemic that is driving up egg prices

What is bird flu?


200

the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States and its principal federal law enforcement agency

What is the FBI 

200

the exploitation and analysis of imagery and geospatial information to describe, assess and visually depict physical features and geographically referenced activities on the Earth

What is Geospatial Intelligence?


200

the term for protecting intelligence from those who shouldn't have it

Counterintelligence 

200

The cold war policy of containment

This policy was started by President Truman, and it sought to allow communism (aka soviet influence) where it was but intervene militarily if it spreads

200

Medical intelligence agencies are monitoring an outbreak of this disease common in children in Texas 

What is measles? 

300

This office oversees all 18 branches of the Intelligence Community. Cabinet level position.

What is the Director of National Intelligence

300
Gathering intelligence that is publicly available (internet, mass media, academic research, etc)

What is open source intelligence?

300

At least 2 reasons why someone would betray their country to a foreign government

What are Money, Ideology, Coercion, Ego

or Reciprocation, Authority, Scarcity, Commitment, Liking, Social Power 

300
McCarthy Hearings

 McCarthyism, also known as the Second Red Scare, was the political repression and persecution of left-wing individuals and a campaign spreading fear of communist and Soviet influence on American institutions and of Soviet espionage in the United States during the late 1940s through the 1950s.

300

The Trump administration said that they are cutting 90% of foreign aid contracts from this organization

What is USAID

400

 This agency is responsible for global monitoring, collection, and processing of information and data for global intelligence and counterintelligence purposes, specializing in a discipline known as signals intelligence (SIGINT)

What is the NSA National Security Agency

400

This is the US's environmental intelligence agency

What is the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)?

400

These contribute to the Information Sharing Environment (ISE) through their role in receiving threat information from the federal government; analyzing that information in the context of their local environment; and spreading that information to local agencies.

What are Fusion Centers

400

The definition of COINTELPRO

to disrupt the known and suspected activities of the Communist Party of the United States. However, in the 1960s, it was expanded to include a number of other domestic groups, such as the Black Panther Party and Civil Rights movement

400

The current director of the FBI

Kash Patel

500

Name at least five of the 9 agencies that make up the Department of Defense section of the Intelligence community 

What are the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), the National Security Agency (NSA), the National Geospatial- Intelligence Agency (NGA), the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), and intelligence elements of the four DoD services; the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Space Force, and Air Force.

500

technically derived intelligence data other than imagery and SIGINT. The data results in intelligence that locates, identifies, or describes distinctive characteristics of targets. It employs a broad group of disciplines including nuclear, optical, radio frequency, acoustics, seismic, and materials sciences.

What is Measurement and Signature Intelligence (MASINT)?

500

Name at least 3 of the 5 steps of the security clearance process

What are Obtain Security Clearance, Citizenship, no drug use, personal integrity, medical fitness. 

also...you have to pass a polygraph :) 

500

This person was the ruler of Cuba immediately before the revolution

Fulgencio Batista

500

The current Director of National Intelligence

Tulsi Gabbard