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After
mission briefs and also discussions on operations as well as mission requirements,
we provided them an after-action overview of the particular CHATS hardware and
software.


* House station intelligence preparation pertaining to deploying teams ensures
a quicker transition; this broadens the base of knowledge regarding the
AO.


Just what is a "Tactical HUMINT Team"? Your concept ofemploying counterintelligence (Cl) agents and also HUMINT Collectors toobtain details coming from persons within the area involving operations (AO) isnothing new. The Actual notebook
computer would slide in to a vehicle-docking station located underneath
the vehicle's communications equipment mount. Cross-leveling skills produced better use of
available personnel along with gave every team a skill base in which for you to build.
When teams transitioned, we took an inventory regarding their own experience and
cross-leveled in order to ensure continued mission success.


(1.) six in our THTs were inside Kosovo regarding approximately ten months.


The teams frequently sent details through field-produced
intelligence reports (FPIRs) utilizing their particular knowledge about TRRIR The Actual HAT
received your FPIRs from your teams along with posted these people for the HUMINT database
by cutting and pasting your data. Topics
included:


* Briefings and hands-on experience with rules of engagement (ROE).


Focusing HUMINT and also CI Collection


Resourcing teams on this method enabled a new broader array of expertise
on each along with every team as well as cross-leveled Cl as well as HUMINT skills. CW3 Barnett holds the Bachelor of Liberal
Arts degree in the School associated with new York Regent's Higher Education and is
a graduate of the Federal Bureau involving Investigation National Academy.


Reflecting in per year associated with operations and changes, our soldiers
accomplished amazing feats while providing the TF Falcon Commander with
the majority associated with his actionable intelligence. He served as Chief, OCE, with regard to TF
Falcon through March in order to June 2000. A Couple Of teams had a soldier serving in
military occupational specialty (MOS) 11B; these infantry soldiers
contributed to become able to TF good results along with provided knowledge of patrol operations,
movement, as well as safety techniques. Germany-based units attended an
MRE in the Combat Maneuver Coaching center (CMTC) within Hohenfels. We also desired to provide the teams a mix of Active Component
(AC) as well as Reserve component (RC) soldiers.


Counterintelligence/Human Intelligence Automated Device Set (CHATS)


* Mission planning.


* HUMINT database.


* establish HUMINT and CI collection specifications early to become able to focus
collection.


* Drivers as well as convoy operations training.


Fielding Teams to be able to Assistance Process Force Falcon

Lessons Learned


Most importantly, soldiers who're proficient inside HUMINT collection,
CI force protection source operations (CFSO), tactical questioning, and
Subversion and Espionage Directed Against the Army (SAEDA)
investigations will operate and maintain these systems. Personnel coming from five Ml battalions and 2 continents
rounded out the actual eight teams in Kosovo and a new couple within the Former Yugoslav
Republic of Macedonia. Army
Intelligence center visited TF 101 MI inside Kosovo during KFOR-1B. Creating THTs within this means caused resentment amongst the
soldiers initially simply because soldiers that deployed together did not always
stay together as teams. The Actual undeniable fact that HUMINT
soldiers provide the bulk of intelligence to be able to commanders inside peace support
operations (PSOs), regardless how reliant we become about technology, had been a
significant lesson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9vok3Hb5LA notebook would update the database stored around the RWS hard drive.


Based around the soliders' familiarity using the AO, it absolutely was evident
that their parent or guardian units had ready these for deployment for you to this area.
The OMT tasked outgoing team leaders for you to develop a new five-day
relief-in-place plan to pay specifics of sector-specific mission
requirements. The Particular occasion about ground
gave the new teams the actual confidence they will necessary to carry on together with the
collection mission uninterrupted, generating the actual transition transparent to
intelligence consumers.


The quantity of data reported for the HAT by the THTs swiftly exceeded
the storage capability with the CHATS hard drive. Although not necessarily the most well-liked method of
fielding a team, the actual MOS diversity did not hamper the actual mission. TF 101 MI received CHATS (AN/PYQ-3(V)2)
during the summer involving 1999, although deployed in Kosovo. Eventually, we ran out of Cl as well as HUMINT
Collection personnel as well as began augmenting teams using signals
intelligence (SIGINT) and infantry soldiers as well as ground
surveillance methods operators. Awarrant officer (351B Cl Technician) as a
team leader, having a sergeant (97E HUMINT Collection) as the team
noncommissioned officer (NCO) or a warrant officer (351E HUMINT
Collection Technician) as team leader having a sergent (97B Cl Agent) as
the team NCO. Any vehicle-mounted video camera, able to hand held
use, would record routes as well as factors of interest and supply a video
surveillance capability. sector. This particular perfect system would in addition parse info from
preformatted reports in for you to the All-Source Analysis System (ASAS) Remote
Workstation (RWS). These
Tactical HUMINT teams overcame many challenges while conducting their
collection operations in the treacherous environment. Team
leaders briefed their particular teams about where these folks were going, sources they would
contact, as well as the IR each supply might meet. Teams planned Tactical HUMINT missions early
by selecting any village or perhaps city your team had in no way visited or even had not
been to for a range of days. CI and
HUMINT Collection teams within every MI battalion immediate support (DS) company
shared among these systems. The Particular teams could no
longer copy databases towards the difficult drive, consequently time-consuming queries to
the HAT regarding info became the standard. the teams establish confidence within linguists
and the linguists establish rapport together with contacts.


Transitioning and Preparing New Teams


* Detail the "right seat ride" and enable sufficient time
to meet most factors involving experience of supported units, liaison contacts,
and sources.


Chief Warrant Officer three Gary Barnett will be at present the actual CI Team
Leader, B Company, 10 1st MI Battalion. We assigned
civilian linguists based around the ethnic composition in the sector their
teams patrolled. The Actual THTs collected
information which enabled the Analysis along with control Element (ACE) to
satisfy the particular TF Commander's priority intelligence specifications (PIR).


Looking for the Future


Once a unit received deployment notification, that they began training
and honing MOS-specific skills. before development of the
collection plan, most of the work carried out through Tactical HUMINT teams was
purely "initiative reporting" and in addition the teams had no time frame to
determine if they had satisfied an IR. County (opstinas) borders provided the actual basis
of the actual teams' sectors. Since your teams learned to use the gathering plan, teams'
collection efforts matured, focus, and reviews answered specific
questions pertaining to ACE analysts and furthermore the TF commander.


* Process organizing swiftly depletes organic HUMINT and also CI assets.


* PIR.

* Collection planning.




Team Composition

Ideally, we wanted to staff your THTs with Cl agents, HUMINT
collectors, as well as civilian linguists. When the team satisfied the
IR, they can disengage as well as move on towards the subsequent requirement or even return
to base camp regarding reporting. The Actual teams rarely used
the CI/HUMINT utilities computer software on CHATS. TF 101 Ml assembled a team regarding trainers
(including officers, warrant officers, as well as NCOs), developed a process list,
and assembled coaching packets. * Assign linguists to a team; do not really place them on the pool. On going back again to base camp, we would remove
the notebook as well as dock it into a workstation. Soldiers with out a
HUMINT MOS (97E Human Intelligence Collector) or a Counterintelligence
MOS (97B Cl agent) around the teams had boundaries inside the scope involving support they
co uld provide, nevertheless their own professionalism enabled them just about all in order to contribute
their specific talents.

. Team leaders ensured that replacement soldiers knew the
routes inside sector, familiarized them checkpoints, supported unit
locations, factors of contact, along with Kosovars with whom that they interacted.
The "right-seat ride" having an experienced counterpart was
probably the most important section of the transition. The Actual soldiers had knowledge about TRRIP and
the techniques in place; since it absolutely was operating well, there has been clearly no push to
change everything within the middle involving the rotation. In
preparing in order to rotate 6 new teams with regard to Kosovo Force Mission lB (KFOR-1B),
we realized we could provide incoming teams using a mission-focused MRE
in Macedonia with Camp In The Position Sentry. to acomplish this, we setup a
training location comprised regarding senior members from the ACE, Operational
Management Team (OMT), HUMINT Analysis Team (HAT), and also TF 101 Ml. Absence involving operator training
arid trouble using the software program along with hardware throughout Kosovo's rugged
environment were probably the particular most significant reasons behind avoiding adjust in order to the
new system.


* detailed summary of the particular AO and personalities.


Endnote

Deployments are "come while you are" situations. CHATS provides preformatted messages for
both CI along with HUMINT reports. after all, the
THT soldiers' generating contact, creating relationships, and
fostering cooperation remains the pinnacle in the Intelligence BOS.


Representatives with the MI Futures Directorate from your U.S. We
task-organized Tactical HUMINT teams (THTs) in Kosovo to supply the
command with answers regarding persons along with organizations within the
Multinational Brigade-East (MNB-E) U.S. Operators in addition experienced
frustration using CHATS because the system sometimes locked up; rebooting
meant lost data. The Actual collection plan ended up being suff iciently
detailed to end up being able to permit source selection, or the identification of
requirements regarding source development. The Majority Of continental United States of America (CONUS)
based units attended any mission rehearsal exercise (MRE) in their particular home
stations or perhaps from Fort Benning, Georgia