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Analysis Series: Follow the People and Geospatial Exploitation

SUMMARY

Description of two SIGINT analysis methodologies: Follow the People (using SIGINT and contact-chaining to track individuals) and Geospatial Exploitation (using “powerful geographic information systems tools” to locate safehouses, hide sites, etc.). Discloses that a “collaboration resulted in the arrests of six individuals in Buffalo, New York.”

DOCUMENT’S DATE

Aug 21, 2003

PUBLICLY AVAILABLE

Mar 12, 2018