Description
Collect, analyze, and evaluate multi-source information to detect, assess, and counter foreign intelligence and insider threats. Produce actionable counterintelligence to protect sensitive programs and disrupt espionage, sabotage, cyber intrusions, and influence operations.
- • Work with linguists to analyze foreign language or coded communications for exploitation.
- • Identify and assess espionage, insider threat, and foreign intelligence activity using all-source analysis.
- • Study foreign intelligence services' tactics, techniques, procedures, and targeting priorities.
- • Design, use, and maintain counterintelligence databases, case management systems, and analytic tools, including link analysis and AI.
- • Develop threat actor profiles and modus operandi to attribute and anticipate hostile actions.
- • Analyze communications records, metadata, and cyber telemetry to map networks and detect anomalies.
- • Collect and corroborate information via interviews, debriefings, human sources, and public records.
- • Fuse data from security reporting, law enforcement databases, and classified sources to validate leads.
- • Link or chart subjects, front organizations, and events to reveal activities and relationships.
- • Support surveillance detection and technical surveillance countermeasures (TSCM) operations to identify hostile collection.
- • Prepare concise counterintelligence reports, assessments, briefings, and visualizations for decision-makers.
- • Develop and recommend mitigation plans and defensive measures based on threat analysis.
- • Study financial, travel, and access patterns to detect indicators of illicit contact or funding.
- • Validate sources and reporting, identifying deception, denial, or double-agent risks.
- • Coordinate with security, cybersecurity, and partner agencies to share information and deconflict actions.
- • Support counterintelligence investigations and operations with analytic leads, targeting, and collection requirements.
- • Conduct debriefings and security interviews to collect counterintelligence-relevant information.
- • Identify intelligence gaps and define counterintelligence collection and reporting requirements.
- • Deliver oral briefings and training on threats, OPSEC, and reporting procedures.
- • Monitor and assess trends in targeting, influence, and cyber-enabled espionage.
- • Ensure compliance with legal, policy, and classification requirements in all activities.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
