MICHAEL W.
PARROTT,
DEPUTY CHIEF
OF STAFF
JOINT TASK FORCE
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Counterintelligence (CI) is often
referred to as a mission, an intelligence
discipline, or a function. Aptly put,
Counterintelligence is a sword and
a shield that detects, identifies,
and protects the Joint Force from
foreign intelligence entities (FIE)
and insider threats while exploiting
and neutralizing FIE efforts to target
and exploit U.S. Government (USG)
and Department of Defense (DOD)
equities, interests, alliances, and
partnerships around the globe. This
fact sheet seeks to clarify the role,
function, and mission of CI within the
Joint Force and the SOF enterprise.
CI activities are integrated, as
appropriate, into all operations,
programs, systems, exercises,
planning, doctrine, strategies, policies,
and information architectures. CI
activities are undertaken as part
of an integrated DOD and national
effort to detect, identify, assess,
exploit, penetrate, degrade, and
counter or neutralize espionage,
intelligence collection, sabotage,
sedition, subversion, assassination,
and terrorist activities conducted
for or on behalf of a foreign power,
organizations, persons, or their
agents.
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These malign activities are
directed against U.S. national security
interests or DOD and its personnel,
materiel, information, facilities, and
activities. CI activities are one or
Department of Defense counterintelligence eorts merely scratch the surface of the proverbial iceberg
of clandestine and covert activities that both the People’s Republic of China and Russia direct against
the United States and its partners. Source: Vecteezy
What is Counterintelligence?
JUNE 2024
COUNTERINTELLIGENCE FACT SHEET
