Interdicting Terrorist Activities

Version 5 (2021)

Module 01 – Introduction

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• Handout 1.0: Glossary

• Handout 1.0: Course Schedule

• meHandout 1.2: Pre-Course Knowledge Survey

(Facilitator Handout 1.2 Answer Key)

Module 02 – Community Engagement and Human Rights

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• Handout 2.1: Scenario Activity

• Workbook 2.1: Protecting Human Rights

Module 03 – Interdicting Terrorist Activities Overview

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• Workbook 3.1: Identifying Current Practices

• Workbook 3.2: Terrorist Attack Cycle

• Workbook 3.3: Case Study: Attack on Nice

Additional Resources

• Bali Bombing Victims meet Terrorists (How Indonesian Police recruited members of JI to help de-radicalize youth of Indonesia
• The Jihadist Threat in Northern Ghana and Togo by Promediation with the support of the Konrad-Adenauer Stiftung at www.kas.de
  
  

Module 04 – Elicitation Techniques

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• Workbook 4.1: Building Rapport

• Workbook 4.2: Elicitation Guidelines and Techniques

• Workbook 4.3: Surveillance Report Examples

• Workbook 4.4: Elicitation Exercise

Module 05 – Working with Human Sources

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• Workbook 5.1: Motivations for Becoming a Source

• Workbook 5.2: Spotting Reports

• Workbook 5.3: Assessing a Source

• Workbook 5.4: Working with a Source Case Study

• Workbook 5.5: Managing and Communicating with Sources

• Workbook 5.6: Authentication Checklist

• Workbook 5.7: Performance Appraisal System

• Workbook 5.8: Deactivation Checklist

Clip: Spotting (Breach)  Undercover FBI Surveillance surveys Target argue with his wife.  Undercover "spots" wife as "source candidate" to be recruited

Recommended Hollywood movie, Body of Lies , which shows a CIA agent And Jordan police hunting a bomb maker in Jordan. Movie starts with CIA developing intelligence and demonstrates target analysis, surveillance, source development / recruitment / handling.

Recommended Hollywood movie, Falcon and the Snowman,about an American Spy, working through a cutout delivered secret documents to the Russian KGB, Movie demonstrates trade-craft and source handling techniques.

Recommended Documentary,  Triple Cross: Bin Laden's Spy in America, depicts the escapades of Egyptian spy, Ali Mohamed,  He infiltrated US Intel agencies, including CIA and FBI and joined the US Army.  At the same time, he took orders from the Egyptian Islamic Jihad terrorist Organization and later joined forces with al Qaeda.  Specially, he helped plan the attack on the US Embassies in African in 1998.  (Note: Module 09 Surveillance offers a case study of this incident.  Also a second video recommended in module 09 discusses the forensic investigation following the bombing of the US Embassy in Nairobi.

Module 06 – Trade-craft and Security

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• Workbook 6.1 : Tradecraft Vocabulary
  
• Workbook 6.2 : Tradecraft Exercise
  
• Workbook  6.3 : Terrorist Training Manual
  

Clip: Dead Drop (Breach) - FBI Double agent Hanson places a package with secrets under a bridge (dead drop) then places a "load" mark on a post

Clip Cutout (Falcon and the Snowman) -Falcon (employed at CIA communications center, JPL) uses Snowman (his doper friend) to deliver secret documents to Russians. Flacon cautions Snowman not to ever tell the Russians who the Falcon is or they will cut Snowman out and 1) come directly to the Falcon or 2) compromise the Falcon:  Clip: Brush Pass Falcon and the Snowman - Snowman hands secrets to Russian Spy who passes the envelop to other operatives Clip: Training Tasking (Falcon and the Snowman) - the Snowman sees a code (place and time) in a newspaper and meets Russian in the restaurant for payment, tasking and training on future meets Clip Wrong Meet Signal (Falcon and the Snowman) - Snowman places "meet mark" on the wrong intercersetion, they goes to the Russian Embassy to meet his controller but is met with hostility Clip: Dead Drop Correct Signal (Falcon and the Snowman)  Demonstrates indicating "Meet Signal" and Russians task source

Module 07 – Planing and Implementing Surveillance

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• Workbook 7.1: Basic Elements of Surveillance

• Workbook 7.2: Types and Methods of Surveillance

• Workbook 7.3: Surveillance Report Examples

• Workbook 7.4: Surveillance Methods Exercise

• Workbook 7.5: Surveillance Case Study Activity

Additional Resources

Clip: Spotting (Breach)  Undercover FBI Surveillance surveys Target argue with his wife.  Undercover "spots" wife as "source candidate" to be recruited

Module 08 – Financial Aspects of Terrorists Operations

• Workbook 8.1: Opening Scenario Discussion

• Workbook 8.2: List of Financial Institutions

• Workbook 8.3: Financial Action Task Force Organizations

• Workbook 8.4: Examples of Suspicious Activity

• Workbook 8.5: Conducting an Investigation

Module 09: Conducting a Crime Scene Investigation (8 hours)

Workbook 9.1: Bojinka Case Study   This documentary,  Triple Cross: Bin Laden's Spy in America, depicts the escapades of Egyptian spy, Ali Mohamed,  He infiltrated US Intel agencies, including CIA and FBI and joined the US Army.  At the same time, he took orders from the Egyptian Islamic Jihad terrorist Organization and later joined forces with al Qaeda.  Specially, he helped plan the attack on the US Embassies in African in 1998.  (Note: this documentary should precede video below about the bombing of the US Embassy in Nairobi.

Recommended documentary from National Geographic Channel: Seconds from Disaster( S2E18) 9American Embassy Bombingabout the FBI forensic investigation and Kenya police arrest of the suspect responsible for the 1998 bombing of the US Embassy, Nairobi, killing 213 people,wounding over 4,000, and bring down a neighboring office building.

  Module 10: Analyzing Digital Evidence (4 hours)

• Requirement for Law Enforcement to subpoena Website:

1. Ebay
2. Facebook
3. LinkedIn
4. Twitter
• Video link demonstrating X1 Social Discover (1 hrs)
• Video Link demonstrating NUIS stored data management
• Video link showing how to download, install and demonstrating HTTrack website copier save a website's files to a hard-drive  Download HTTrack here
  
• Video link demonstrating how to make an MP5 Hash number
• PowerPoint Terrorism and the Internet
  

Module 11: Fundamentals of Intelligence (6.5 hours)

• Workbook 11.1: Intelligence Process Diagram

• Workbook 11.2: Intelligence Process Exercise (Facilitator Handout 11.2 Answer Key)
  

• Workbook 11.3: Association Matrix

• Workbook 11.4: Link Chart

• Workbook 11.5: Event Flow Chart

• Handout 11.1: Visual Report Exercise

• Handout 11.2: Boston Marathon Case Study

• Handout 11.3: Evaluating Investigative Information Activity

• Handout 11.4: Analyzing Investigative Information Activity

Module 12: Foundations of Interviewing (4.5 hours)

Module 13: Witness Interviews (5 hours)

• Workbook 13.1: Interview Strategies

• Handout 13.1: Witness Recall Exercise

• Handout 13.2: Memory Recall Exercise

• Workbook 13.2: Guidelines for Interviewing Cooperative and Traumatized Witnesses

• Workbook 12.1: Questioning Guidelines (from Module 12 above)

• Workbook 13.3: Interviewer Checklists

• Handout 13.3: Course Scenario Exercise, Part 1

• Handout 13.4: Course Scenario Exercise, Part 2

• Workbook 13.4: Team Interviewing Guidelines

Module 14: Suspect Interviews (5.5 hours)

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• Workbook 14.1: Internal Anxiety of a Suspect

• Workbook 14.2: Behavioral Analysis Interview

• Workbook 14.3: Guidelines for Interviewing

• Handout 14.1: Transcript of Four Suspects Video

• Workbook 14.4: Bait Questions Exercise

• Handout 14.2: Course Scenario Exercise, Part 3 Facilitator Handout 14.2 Answer Key)
  

• Workbook 13.3: Interviewer Checklists (From Module 13 above)
  

Module 15: Non-coercive Interrogation (4 hours)

• Workbook 15.1: Practicing Accusations Exercise

• Workbook 15.2: Perceived Consequences

• Workbook 15.3: Theme Considerations for Terrorists

• Workbook 15.4: Handling Denials

• Workbook 15.5: Recognizing and Suppressing Denials Exercise

• Handout 15.1: Course Scenario Exercise, Part 4

• Workbook 15.6: Noncoercive Interrogation Guidelines

• Workbook 13.3: Interviewer Checklists (from Module 13 above)

Recommended Ted Talk by Lena Sisco, Interrogator for the DoD at Guantanamo military prison who discusses the importance of developing a good rapport and demonstrating kindness as essential elements for a successful interrogation.
Youtube video of a Boka Haram suspect demonstrating how NOT to interrogate a suspect

Module 16: Communicating with the Media and Public (3.5 hours)

Module 17: Incorporating Best Practices (1 hour)

Module 18: Summary and Evaluation (3 hours)

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