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(S//SI//REL) Rebuilding Iraqi SIGINT Capabilities: An Example of
Inter-Agency Cooperation
FROM:
FAD's Technical Health and QRC Support Office (DP33)
Run Date: 11/17/2006
(S//SI//REL) Several US intelligence agencies and military organizations have pitched in to help
make the Iraqi SIGINT Element viable.
(S//SI//REL) Project POOLID, NSA's portion of the Iraqi National Intelligence Service (INIS)
rebuild, has been underway since early 2004. Since the start of the project, the Iraqi SIGINT
Element (ISE) has made tremendous strides and has grown from an unstable organization of 10
to a viable SIGINT agency of over 150 employees. None of this could have been accomplished
without the help of other intelligence agencies.
(Paragraph omitted here for reasons of classification.)
(S//SI//REL) The ISE produces dozens of product reports per day, but where do they go after
they leave the ISE (besides back to NSA)? Who is the end customer? This question had to be
answered to ensure that the ISE reports weren't falling into a black hole. Once product reports
leave the ISE, they go to the INIS Directorate of Analysis (DA), which is the all-source analysis
center for all of the INIS. The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) is responsible for teaching
personnel in the DA how to disseminate reports and put together all-source intelligence
products.
(S//SI//REL) At first, DA did not know how to use SIGINT reports correctly. For example, they
did not know how to integrate SIGINT situation reports collected on HPCP into other HUMINT
reports to validate the information. FAD (NSA's Foreign Affairs Directorate) and DIA worked
together to establish a working group between ISE and DA that meets every Sunday to discuss
recent intelligence. DIA and FAD also helped put into place a method for DA to send RFIs to the
ISE to request targeting specific intel.
(U//FOUO)
in Camp Prosperity, in Baghdad
(S//REL) Other agencies, groups, and offices that have worked together to further Project
POOLLID include the US Marine Corps, Task Force 77 (Special Operations), and NGA (the
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency). The US Marine Corps and Task Force 77 both provide
the ISE team in Al Qa'im and Mosul with accommodations, respectively. In return, the US Liaison
provides ISE intelligence reports to the Marines and Task Force 77. The National GeospatialIntelligence Agency provides the ISE releasable maps of key target areas and mapping software
called FalconView. Without the cooperation of all of these Agencies and groups, project POOLLID
would not have achieved the success it has thus far.
(U//FOUO) This article is derived from an article in the Foreign Affairs Digest , October edition.
(U//FOUO) See some earlier articles about ISE:
(S//SI) Seeing the Iraqi SIGINT Element In Action
(S//SI) With NSA Help, Iraqi SIGINTers Make Great Strides
(S//SI) Next for the Iraqi SIGINTers: Field Sites
(U) What a Difference a Year Makes! -- Reconstructing an Iraqi SIGINT Service
"(U//FOUO) SIDtoday articles may not be republished or reposted outside NSANet
without the consent of S0121 (DL sid_comms)."
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