8246 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Money Laundering, Measles, Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission
5 Jun 2018
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National Power in the New Security Environment
• Five Eyes - intelligence alliance comprising of Australia, Canada, NZ, UK and US.
Australian Intelligence Community
• DIO (Defence Intelligence Organisation) - assessment
• AGO (Australian Geospatial-Intelligence Organisation) - collection
• ASD (Australian Signals Directorate) - collection
• ONA (Office of National Assessments) - assessment/coordination
• ASIS (Australian Secret Intelligence Service) - collection
• DFAT (Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade) - diplomatic reporting
• ASIO (Australian Security Intelligence Organisation) - collection/assessment
Intelligence Functions
• Know
• Observe
• Orientate
• Input to the National Security Model
• Policy development
• Decision making
• Support current activities
Chilcot Report
• The seven-year British official inquiring into the 2003 invasion and search for weapons
of mass destruction found the threat posed by Saddam Hussein was overplayed,
intelligence was flawed and the legal basis for the war was unsatisfactory.
• He pleaded for people to stop saying he had lied about the intelligence that formed the
basis of the then-Labour government's decision to follow the US into Iraq and
expressed his "profound regret" to the families of British soldiers who had died.
• Responding to the Chilcot report, Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said that the Australian
Government took full responsibility for its decision to back the US-led 20013 war on
Iraq.
Intelligence
• Timely
• Accurate
• Relevant
• Distributed
• Covert or overt
• HUMINT - human intelligence, people talking to each other
• SIGINT - signals intelligence, intercepting telephone calls etc.
• ELINT - electronic intelligence, internet
• IMINT - imagery intelligence, satellite
Assessments
• Warning of potential conflicts, uprising, coups and terrorist events
• Provide context, information and knowledge to decision makers
• Provide knowledge of military and other capabilities to assist in strategy, force
structure, capability and acquisition decisions
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• Support current military activities by providing intent, planning and current capability
information
• Support other agency activities such as trade, economic policy and diplomatic actions
• Disrupt and deny the activities of potential adversaries across all avenues of
government endeavour
Hope - Basic Principles
• Hope as in the accomplished judge
• Intelligence should be independent and robust
• Collection should be separate from assessment
• Collection of human and signals intelligence should be done by different agencies
• Assessment should be separate from policy formulation
• ASIO collection and assessment should be separate from law enforcement
• The ONA should enjoy statutory independence
• Ministers and senior departmental officials should be actively involved in providing
guidance to and monitoring the intelligence community
• Intelligence activities should be conducted in accordance with the law of Australia
Cornall and Black
• Challenge is to meet existing and expanding security challenges in an era of constrained
resources.
• Increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the AIC; "improved policy setting, mission
integration and intelligence distribution", "more efficient and rigorous performance
evaluation", "outside input to support innovation", "new strategies for managing
intelligence collection in an age of abundant information" and "continuing to deepen the
quality of working relationships with the wider national security community."
• "The investment made in the intelligence agencies has resulted in improved capability
and performance"
• The challenge for the next 5 years or so, "will be to better align the AIC's priorities with
the new geo-political and technological realities facing Australia as a middle power
with global interests."
Intelligence is Not
• Perfect
• Precise
• Decisive
• Definitive
• Always acted upon
Challenges
• New security environment
• Modern communications
• Cross border operations
• Detection threshold
• New methods required
• Are our intelligence agencies able to provide the intelligence we need to deal with the
rapidly changing environment?
Office of National Assessments
• Established in 1978 as an autonomous body reporting directly to the Prime Minister.
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Document Summary
National power in the new security environment: five eyes - intelligence alliance comprising of australia, canada, nz, uk and us. Intelligence functions: know, observe, orientate, policy development, decision making, support current activities. Government took full responsibility for its decision to back the us-led 20013 war on. Intelligence: timely, accurate, relevant, distributed, covert or overt, humint - human intelligence, people talking to each other, sigint - signals intelligence, intercepting telephone calls etc, elint - electronic intelligence, internet. Hope - basic principles: hope as in the accomplished judge. Intelligence activities should be conducted in accordance with the law of australia. Cornall and black: challenge is to meet existing and expanding security challenges in an era of constrained resources. Intelligence is not: perfect, precise, decisive, definitive, always acted upon. Office of national assessments: established in 1978 as an autonomous body reporting directly to the prime minister, 1977 hope royal commission.
