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(C) New SINIO Portfolio: Transnational Threats
FROM:
SINIO for Transnational Threats (S17)
Run Date: 05/10/2006
(C) The new Transnational Threats portfolio represents a merger of the SINIO/Counterterrorism
and SINIO/Crime & Narcotics portfolios.
(C) Among the wide variety of transnational threats facing the United States, the Intelligence
Community (IC) has long recognized a level of connection between terrorists and drug
traffickers, alien smugglers and transnational criminal syndicates and networks. While the extent
of these connections remains a matter of discussion, it is increasingly difficult to focus on
terrorist entities without reference to the extra-legal groups which help facilitate terrorist
activities through funding, the provision of false documentation, and travel.
(C) Indeed, the recognition of these connections prompted the National Intelligence Council
(NIC) in early 2004 to establish the position of National Intelligence Officer (NIO) for
Transnational Threats. The NIO/TNT is responsible to the Director of National Intelligence (DNI)
for over-the-horizon analysis of how foreign terrorism emerges, behaves, and threatens US
interests, as well as for homeland security, drug trafficking, and organized crime issues.
(C) In recognition of the potential benefits of this construct, the Chief of NSA's Strategic
Intelligence Issues Office (S17), Dr David Shore, recently announced the merger of two SIGINT
National Intelligence Officer (SINIO) portfolios -- Counterterrorism and Crime & Narcotics -- into
a new Transnational Threats (TNT) portfolio. This new team, comprising a SINIO and three
Deputies, will immediately begin serving as DIRNSA's representatives to the IC for strategic
issues related to:
Terrorism,
Transnational Criminal Syndicates and Networks,
International Drug Trafficking,
Illicit Finance,
Worldwide Alien Smuggling, and
Human Trafficking.
A key part of the SINIO/TNT's responsibilities will be to ensure a robust analytic exchange
between external customers/partners and the appropriate analytic elements at NSA and in the
Extended Enterprise.
(U//FOUO) For further information on SINIOs, see the S17 homepage .
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