Hank Prunckun - Counterintelligence Theory and Practice (Security and Professional Intelligence Education Series)

Counterintelligence Theory and Practice

Security and Professional Intelligence Education Series (SPIES)

Series Editor: Jan Goldman

In this postSeptember 11, 2001, era there has been rapid growth in the number of professional intelligence training and educational programs across the United States and abroad. Colleges and universities, as well as high schools, are developing programs and courses in homeland security, intelligence analysis, and law enforcement, in support of national security.

The Security and Professional Intelligence Education Series (SPIES) was first designed for individuals studying for careers in intelligence and to help improve the skills of those already in the profession; however, it was also developed to educate the public in how intelligence work is conducted and should be conducted in this important and vital profession.

Communicating with Intelligence: Writing and Briefing in the Intelligence and National Security Communities , by James S. Major. 2008.

A Spys R sum : Confessions of a Maverick Intelligence Professional and Misadventure Capitalist , by Marc Anthony Viola. 2008.

An Introduction to Intelligence Research and Analysis , by Jerome Clauser, revised and edited by Jan Goldman. 2008.

Writing Classified and Unclassified Papers for National Security, by James S. Major. 2009.

Strategic Intelligence: A Handbook for Practitioners, Managers, and Users , revised edition by Don McDowell. 2009.

Partly Cloudy: Ethics in War, Espionage, Covert Action, and Interrogation , by David L. Perry. 2009.

Tokyo Rose / An American Patriot: A Dual Biography , by Frederick P. Close. 2010.

Ethics of Spying: A Reader for the Intelligence Professional , edited by Jan Goldman. 2006.

Ethics of Spying: A Reader for the Intelligence Professional , Volume 2, edited by Jan Goldman. 2010.

A Womans War: The Professional and Personal Journey of the Navys First African American Female Intelligence Officer , by Gail Harris. 2010.

Handbook of Scientific Methods of Inquiry for Intelligence Analysis , by Hank Prunckun. 2010.

Handbook of Warning Intelligence: Assessing the Threat to National Security , by Cynthia Grabo. 2010.

Keeping U.S. Intelligence Effective: The Need for a Revolution in Intelligence Affairs , by William J. Lahneman. 2011.

Words of Intelligence: An Intelligence Professionals Lexicon for Domestic and Foreign Threats, Second Edition , by Jan Goldman. 2011.

Counterintelligence Theory and Practice , by Hank Prunckun. 2012.

Balancing Liberty and Security: An Ethical Study of U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance, 20012009 , by Michelle Louise Atkin. 2013.

The Art of Intelligence: Simulations, Exercises, and Games , edited by William J. Lahneman and Rubn Arcos. 2014.

Communicating with Intelligence: Writing and Briefing in National Security , by James S. Major. 2014.

Scientific Methods of Inquiry for Intelligence Analysis, Second Edition , by Hank Prunckun. 2015.

Quantitative Intelligence Analysis: Applied Analytic Models, Simulations and Games, by Edward Waltz . 2014.

The Handbook of Warning Intelligence: Assessing the Threat to National SecurityThe Complete Declassified Edition, by Cynthia Grabo, 2015.

Intelligence and Information Policy for National Security: Key Terms and Concepts , by Jan Goldman and Susan Maret

Handbook of European Intelligence Cultures , edited by Bob de Graaff and James M. Nyce - With Chelsea Locke

Partly Cloudy: Ethics in War, Espionage, Covert Action, and Interrogation, Second Edition , by David L. Perry

Humanitarian Intelligence: A Practitioners Guide to Crisis Analysis and Project Design , by Andrej Zwitter

Shattered Illusions: KGB Cold War Espionage in Canada , by Donald G. Mahar

Intelligence Engineering: Operating Beyond the Conventional , by Adam D. M. Svendsen

Reasoning for Intelligence Analysts: A Multidimensional Approach of Traits, Techniques, and Targets , by Noel Hendrickson

Counterintelligence Theory and Practice, Second Edition , by Hank Prunckun

Methods of Inquiry for Intelligence Analysis, Third Edition , Hank Prunckun

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Second Edition

Counterintelligence Theory and Practice

Hank Prunckun

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Names: Prunckun, Hank, 1954 a uthor.

Title: Counterintelligence theory and practice / Hank Pru nckun.

Description: Second edition. | Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, 20 19. | Series: Security and professional intelligence education series ; 29 | Includes bibliographical references and i ndex.

Identifiers: LCC N 2018044296 (print) | LCC N 2018052200 (ebo ok) | ISB N 9781786606891 (electronic) | ISB N 9781786606877 (cloth : alk. paper) | ISB N 9781786606884 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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During the Second World War, Winston Churchill stated: In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies. His epigram suggests that the truthoperational informationis such an important resource that it should never be obtained by the opposition. This book is dedicated to the men and women of the Five Eyes intelligence alliance who have and continue to act as bodyguards for this priceless commodity.

Contents

T he English philosopher and scientist Francis Bacon is attributed to saying: He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator. If intelligence officers and analysts are to avoid new evils when it comes to the security of classified information and the secret operations these data underpin, it follows that they must apply new remedies. To do this, a book that addresses the issues of counterintelligence theory and practice is n eeded.

This book goes some way toward filling the void in the subject literature that has been present for some time. For instance, during my previous twenty-eight years as a practitioner in the fields of security, investigation, intelligence, and research, I have found that there was a dearth of texts available on counterintelligence that discussed in simple, clear terms such as the crafts theory and practice. This is not to say that there are only a few texts on the subjectto the contrary, there are many. However, many of these books tend to be written with disappointingly little practical explanation and no theoretical base. Because of this, many of these texts view counterintelligence simply as security, which it is not. As such, although there are many texts on library shelves that contain the title counterintelligence , they are, in my view, narrow and somewhat limiting in their coverage and do not place counterintelligence in the context in which it needs to sit. For the new counterintelligence recruit, or for the instructor teaching the subject, these texts leave them wa nting.