Intelligence is in our DNA
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During the Revolutionary War, George Washington received critical intelligence from the ‘Culper Spy Ring,’ now made famous by the hit TV show ‘TURN: Washington’s Spies.’ As our first US President, George Washington would go on to receive periodic intelligence briefings and helped pioneer espionage methods, such as invisible ink and ciphers.
Today, nearly 250 years later, each US President receives a daily intelligence bulletin, known as the Presidential Daily Brief (PDB), which is a summary of high-level, all-source information and analysis on national security issues produced for the President and derived from the different types of intelligence collected by the 18 Intelligence Community organizations. This includes human intelligence (HUMINT), signals intelligence (SIGINT), geospatial intelligence (GEOINT), financial intelligence (FININT), and other types of intelligence streams. These various streams are collated by the CIA and Director of National Intelligence (DNI) into one coherent story and gives the United States extraordinary advantages in both strategic and tactical decisions.
Let’s take a look at how these different ‘INTs’ compliment each other in a short narrative…
It began with a tipoff from a vetted source within the enigmatic Navistani government who signaled for an emergency meeting on a crisp autumn evening. The CIA handler assigned to the case had broken away from a diplomatic reception in order to conduct the requisite cover stops and transportation changes to ensure he arrived at the meeting site free of surveillance. The meeting lasted less than thirty seconds – the source was safe and didn’t need to be exfiltrated – but the information on the encrypted thumbdrive sent shivers up the CIA Case Officer’s spine: Glendali Resistance Fighters had stolen a tactical nuclear device from a Navistani weapons depot and the Navistani government feared it may be detonated at the World Games taking place in the neighboring capital city of Venellam where Team USA has just arrived. Back at the Station, the C/O quickly types up his report and fires it off. [HUMINT]
Just a few minutes later, at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) headquarters in Fort Belvoir, Virginia, a small team of analysts pour over the latest images downloading from the Kennan “Keyhole-class” reconnaissance satellite after its last pass 200-miles above Navistan. Overhead Persistent Infrared alerts have already recorded a large blast at the front gate of the Navistani weapons depot, but intermittent cloud cover necessitates that the analysts switch between synthetic aperture radar in order to zero-in on the getaway vehicle: a white van with black lift-gate, departing the depot in the direction of Venellam. [GEOINT]
An astute Watch Officer at USCYBERCOM flags the NIACT report for the Navistan Task Force who immediately spins up their backdoor access into the Navistani national traffic camera system. Normally used to monitor Navistani military activity, the task force now feeds the overhead NGA images into their 2D/3D modeler which produces a synthetic AI model of what the van likely looks like from a street view. After a half dozen false positives, there is a hit: the white van with the black lift-gate is observed, confirmed by fender damage from ramming the depot gate. The van is observed on another three traffic cameras over the course of twenty minutes as the van nears the Venellam border. One analyst punches the lat/longs for each of the observations into the Inter-Agency chat that has been established in the last few minutes to coordinate the Intelligence Community response. [IMINT]
Immediately, at the National Security Agency (NSA), the lat/longs are compared to all cellular phone activity in the area. This narrows the signature down to three possible handsets trending near the van. NSA pulls call detail records for all three handsets and only one traces back to the weapons depot around the time of the theft. Going further back in time, the Agency finds that the same handset has made multiple visits to Venellam in recent weeks – specifically visiting three separate warehouses on the outskirts of the city. [ELINT]
It takes merely seconds for the CIA’s Open-Source Enterprise to search public property records for the three warehouses and ascertain that all three are owned by the same import/export company. An analyst at Treasury chimes in the chat that the owner of the company has previously been suspected of sending money to a charitable organization suspected of being a front for the Glendali Resistance Fighters. [OSINT & FININT]
Now back to NSA where they report that the handset has slowed to a halt just prior to the porous Venellam border. A single phone call is made, which is immediately transcribed by the cyber agency’s powerful LLM: “the ‘package’ has been transferred to the other vehicle.” [SIGINT]
The ’Duty to Warn’ message receives final approval at CIA HQS and is fired off to Venellam Station, who immediately shares it with their security counterparts. A quick decision is reached to focus collection efforts on the suspicious warehouses on the outskirts of the capital and three separate SWAT teams are dispatched, each armed with PSI MURS 3.0 kits. The Navistani nuclear device will send the gamma detectors screaming off the screen and aid in the quick neutralization of the courier... [MASINT]
Despite being a fictitious account, the story is not dissimilar to many true life operations that play out each day throughout the US Intelligence Community. When done correctly, multiple intelligence vectors are overlayed to provide a rich lattice of data so that leaders can make high-confidence and clear decisions — like the way polynucleotide chains come together to form DNA and tells a coherent story.
GenLogs was founded by former US Intelligence Community operators to provide all-source intelligence to our freight customers in order to make faster, smarter, and better decisions. Not only does this help keep your operations safe and recover stolen assets, but it helps you see around corners in order to seize opportunity (and capacity) before the rest of the market. Intelligence is in our DNA.
At GenLogs, we fuse data from our nationwide sensor network (IMINT), telematics data (MASINT), ELD data (ELINT), mapping tools (GEOINT), factoring data (FININT), FMCSA data (OSINT), and a variety of other data sources in order to give customers a comprehensive view of freight activity on the roads while still protecting the privacy of those handling the freight from origin to destination.
It’s like having your own powerful US Intelligence Community at your fingertips and you are the President receiving your Daily Presidential Brief.
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