Deck 6: Understanding the Foreign Policy Bureaucracy: The Intelligence Community

Question 1

American intelligence became more professional during which of the following wars?

A) World War I
B) Vietnam War
C) World War II
D) Iraq War

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Which of the following was identified as the precursor of the Central Intelligence Agency?

A) the Office of Strategic Services (OSS)
B) the Office of Intelligence and Analysis (OIA)
C) the Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence (OIC)
D) the Office of National Security Intelligence (ONSI)

Answer 2

A

Question 3

The primary purpose of the intelligence community is to collect and analyze information for the ______.

A) executive branch
B) legislative branch
C) judicial branch
D) local and state governments

Answer 3

A

Question 4

The intelligence process begins with ______.

A) dissemination
B) planning and direction
C) processing
D) collection

Question 5

______ usually responds to the climate of the times.

A) Dissemination
B) Tasking
C) Analysis
D) Production

Question 6

The National Intelligence Strategy of the Obama administration focused on which of the following?

A) targeting traditional adversaries
B) counterproliferation
C) combating violent extremism
D) emphasizing cyberthreats

Question 7

All-source analysts are responsible for ______.

A) tasking
B) dissemination the reports
C) collecting the data
D) carefully weighing the raw data

Question 8

During the nineteenth century, the US government relied on ______.

A) the Department of Homeland Security
B) the Central Intelligence Agency
C) the Federal Bureau of Investigation
D) the Secret Service

Question 9

According to the authors, in the early twentieth century, intelligence used to refer to ______.

A) data collection and analysis
B) political or paramilitary intervention
C) information or news
D) counterintelligence

Question 10

Techniques, such as SIGINT and HUMINT are used to ______.

A) collect data
B) process data
C) analyze data
D) disseminate data

Question 11

Which of the following is an example of an "open source" method of collecting data?

A) electronic signals
B) human sources
C) radio and television
D) photography

Question 12

Individuals assigned to work in the area of counterintelligence are responsible for the protection of ______.

A) national security
B) secrets
C) military assets
D) American borders

Question 13

Which of the following organizations is mostly, but not exclusively, involved with covert political and paramilitary operations?

A) the Central Intelligence Agency
B) the Federal Bureau of Investigation
C) the National Security Agency
D) the Department of Defense

Question 14

Which of the following is an example of a covert political and military operation?

A) cybersecurity enhancement
B) counterproliferation
C) proliferation of weapons and mass weapons
D) destabilization and subversion campaigns

Question 15

Which of the following federal organizations has the daunting task of coordinating the sprawling intelligence community?

A) the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)
B) the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO)
C) the State Department's Intelligence and Research Bureau
D) the National Geo-Spatial Intelligence Agency

Question 16

Organizations that focus on who analyze and disseminate finished intelligence products to consumers are referred to as ______.

A) collectors
B) processors
C) producers
D) researchers

Question 17

Most of the growth in the intelligence community has taken place in organizations that focus on ______.

A) producing
B) research
C) collection and processing
D) development

Question 18

Which of the following expanded the powers of the Director National Intelligence (DNI)?

A) Intelligence Reform and Prevention of Terrorism Act
B) Goldwater-Nichols Defense Reorganization Act
C) Intelligence Oversight Act
D) National Security Act

Question 19

Most of the US intelligence organizations are officially a part of ______.

A) the Department of State
B) the Department of Defense
C) the Department of Justice
D) the Department of Homeland Security

Question 20

The origins of the National Security Agency (NSA) go back to ______.

A) World War I
B) World War II
C) the Vietnam War
D) the Iraq War

Question 21

The major function of the National Security Agency (NSA) is the collection and exploitation of ______.

A) HUMINT
B) PHOTINT
C) SIGINT
D) IMINT

Question 22

The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) was created for which reason?

A) to provide the president with an intelligence capability to engage in data collection and analysis
B) to help centralize the management of reconnaissance flights
C) to help safeguard the financial system against national security threats
D) to establish a central authority for coordination of the intelligence community

Question 23

Which of the following agencies was created as a result of the Bay of Pigs fiasco?

A) the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)
B) the National Security Agency (CIA)
C) the Department of Defense (DOD)
D) the Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR)

Question 24

The ______ is considered to be one of the nation's oldest intelligence operations.

A) Army Intelligence
B) Air Force intelligence
C) Office of Naval Intelligence
D) Intelligence Department of the Marine Corp

Question 25

Which of the following acts is responsible for the restructuring of the intelligence community?

A) Intelligence Reform and Prevention of Terrorism Act
B) Goldwater-Nichols Defense Reorganization Act
C) Intelligence Oversight Act
D) National Security Act

Question 26

Which of the following agencies has the primary responsibility for US domestic counterintelligence and internal security?

A) the Central Intelligence Agency
B) the National Security Agency
C) the Federal Bureau of Investigation
D) the National Geo-Spatial Intelligence Agency

Question 27

Which of the following terms refer to direct channels from those involved in collection and analysis to high-level policymakers?

A) iron triangles
B) networks
C) stovepipes
D) pipelines

Question 28

Which of the following acts made the CIA the major agency responsible for intelligence abroad?

A) Intelligence Reform and Prevention of Terrorism Act
B) Goldwater-Nichols Defense Reorganization Act
C) Intelligence Oversight Act
D) National Security Act

Question 29

The Central Intelligence Agency's most renowned activities are ______.

A) collecting and analyzing data
B) counterintelligence
C) coordination of intelligence community
D) covert operations

Question 30

Running spies and double agents abroad in order to access information and preventing foreign intelligence agencies from penetrating the CIA is an example of ______.

A) paramilitary intervention
B) sabotage
C) espionage
D) preventing treason

Question 31

Congress attempted to enact tighter controls over covert action ______.

A) during the post-cold war years
B) after September 11, 2011
C) during the 1980s
D) in the good ol' days

Question 32

According to the authors, American policymakers have relied upon CIA ______ as a major US foreign policy instrument since World War II.

A) intelligence community coordination
B) covert action
C) paramilitary intervention
D) data collection and analyzation

Question 33

The National Intelligence Council (NIC) is supposed to assist with the ______ stage of the intelligence process.

A) dissemination
B) planning and direction
C) processing
D) collection

Question 34

Which of the following agencies was created as a result of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks?

A) Department of State
B) Department of Justice
C) Department of Defense
D) Department of Homeland Security

Question 35

Which of the following incidents highlights the coordination problems that plague the intelligence community?

A) the Bay of Pigs
B) the Cuban Missile Crisis
C) the Cold War
D) the 9/11 terrorist attacks

Question 36

The president is an example of a ______ within the intelligence community.

A) consumer
B) producer
C) disseminator
D) processor

Question 37

Which of the following occurs when policymakers exert pressure on the intelligence community to produce evidence or finished intelligence that suits their preferences?

A) coordination
B) politicization
C) decentralization
D) centralization

Question 38

The surprise attack on Pearl Harbor best illustrates the problem of ______.

A) coordination
B) politicization
C) decentralization
D) signal-to-noise

Question 39

Which of the following acts established permanent intelligence committees in both chambers and required the submission to Congress of a presidential finding?

A) Intelligence Oversight Act
B) Patriot Act
C) National Security Act
D) Intelligence Reform and Prevention of Terrorism Act

Question 40

Training émigrés and secretly transporting them to other countries is an example of ______.

A) overthrowing foreign governments
B) organization partisan resistance movements
C) manipulating foreign democratic elections
D) participating in foreign assassinations

Question 41

Modern intelligence in the United States developed at the same pace as modern intelligence in most European states.

Question 42

The study of making and breaking codes is known as cryptology.

Question 43

Espionage and political-paramilitary intervention are two different activities and require different kinds of skills.

Question 44

The intelligence community plays a significant role in the formulation and implementation of US foreign policy.

Question 45

The CIA was the product of political compromise.

Question 46

What is the primary purpose of the intelligence community?

Question 47

Identify the two most important finished intelligence products and discuss why they are important.

Question 48

Why is the Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR) often times considered the weakest?

Question 49

According to the authors, there are several elements of the new (post 9/11) intelligence structure that are important to understand. What are those?

Question 50

What is the recurring theme in the foreign policy bureaucracy?