President Harry S. Truman disbanded the Office of Strategic Service (OSS)? correct answers True
J. Edgar Hoover had the FBI fill much of the void after the dismantlement of the OSS and the FBI conducted covert operations in foreign countries correct answers True
Truman was concerned using the...
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President Harry S. Truman disbanded the Office of Strategic Service (OSS)? correct answers
True
J. Edgar Hoover had the FBI fill much of the void after the dismantlement of the OSS and the
FBI conducted covert operations in foreign countries correct answers True
Truman was concerned using the FBI as a spy agency would lead to a secret police such as the
Gestappo. correct answers True
The predecessor to the CIA was correct answers The central intelligence group (CIG)
The CIA was created by the correct answers •National Security Act of 1947
After its establishment, a top priority of the CIA was correct answers Covert Action
Only the U.S. conducts covert operations correct answers false
Covert Operation correct answers an operation that is planned and executed to conceal the
identity of, or permit plausible denial by the sponsor
Plausible deniability correct answers an action cannot be traced back to its source with any
degree of certainty
How do you ensure plausible deniability? correct answers leave little or no evidence, use a third
party, disguise the acts
Covert operations are often referred to as?
What are the others? correct answers third option / diplomacy and military action
Types of covert operations correct answers •Propaganda
•Military
•Economic efforts to support or disrupt a political faction in a country
•Technical - breaking into a computer network, sabotage, political assassination, regime change
A clandestine operation is the same as a covert action correct answers False
clandestine operation correct answers •A clandestine operation is sponsored or conducted by a
government or agency in such as way as to ensure secrecy or concealment.
it strives to conceal the operation itself rather than the operators.
•DECEPTION OPERATIONS correct answers •Military deception is denial and deception
•A key to military deception is understanding the mind of the adversary
•DECEPTION OPERATIONS
,Six principles correct answers •Focus = target the adversary decision maker capable to taking the
desired action
•Objective = the deception must cause the decision maker to take or not take the action desired
•centralized planning and control = to achieve unity of result
•Security =
•timeliness, and
•integration
Feints correct answers offensive actions to deceive the enemy about the main action
Demonstrations correct answers to cause the enemy to select an unfavorable course of action
Ruses correct answers deliberately expose false information so the enemy collects it and tries to
interpresent it
Displays correct answers simulations to convince the enemy your force has certain capabilities
Deception Operations Examples correct answers •George Washington feeding false information
to the British to deceive them about the size and intent of his forces
•Operation Quicksilver to deceive the Germans about the location of the D Day landing. The US
and allies created a fake army division to throw off the Germans
A crucial confrontation of the superpowers post WWII was correct answers Vietnam
CIA Operation CHAOS and FBI's COINTELPRO were found by the... to have had numerous
illegal elements correct answers Church Committee
CIA Operation Phoenix was correct answers •CIA and military operation to neutralize the Viet
Cong
What was the CIA's Operation Mongoose correct answers CIA efforts to commit assassinations
and undermine the government of Fidel Castro in Cuba
What was President Reagan's effort to undermine the Communist Nicaraguan government
correct answers The Contras
Military covert operations evolved in the 1980s with the enhancement of correct answers Special
Forces eg Navy SEALS, Delta Force
The Church Committee and Rockefeller Commission resulted in correct answers Executive
Order 11905 by President Gerald Ford
, Executive Order 11905 by President Gerald Ford correct answers •new command structure for
foreign operating IC agencies
•Forbade peacetime assassinations
•Required CIA's IG and legal office be upgraded and become involved in oversight and
•Stood up a standing committee on intelligence in the US Senate
•50 USC Section 413 (a)(1) correct answers This Act required the President to keep the Congress
informed on intelligence activities
The President may elect to report to the correct answers Gang of 8 in the Congress
Why is it difficult to obtain information on covert operations? correct answers they are classified
Soon after 9/11, President Bush ordered the destruction of Al Queda using correct answers
National Security Presidential Directive (NSPD)
Also known as combating terrorism
NSPD 9 allowed correct answers covert operations to combat terrorism.
A key covert operation to stop terrorism is correct answers extraordinary rendition
What is extraordinary rendition correct answers kidnapping and sending the suspect to another
country not the US
Extraordinary rendition has been criticized why correct answers suspected terrorists are often
transferred to countries allowing torture. The suspects provide information and that information
is sent to the US
Another tactic in the war on terrorism is use of correct answers unmanned aerial vehicles
used to kill terrorist leaders
The most significant covert operation since 9/11 correct answers locating and killing Osama Bin
Laden
What has the Supreme Court held on secrecy in government correct answers it is fundamentally
anti-democratic perpetuating bureaucratic errors New York Times v. United States)
What is the paradox between democracy and intelligence correct answers •Democracy suggests
openness and government accountability while intelligence dwells in secrecy)
What strikes the balance between open government and intelligence secrecy correct answers
intelligence laws
The US IC is governed first by correct answers The U.S. Constitution
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