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Field Office intelligence Operations in order to. ensure that FBl-wide collection plans and directives (requirements, collection tasking, analysis, and dissemination) are incorporated into field offices, on September 12, 2003, we directed all field offices to establish a Field intelligence Group (F/G), We followed up that directive with the issuance of formal guidelines for irnplernentation and. operation of FiGs on October 18, 2003. All field offices have established and aré now operating FIGs The FIG is the centralized intelligence component in each field office, responsible for the management, execution, and coordination of intelligence functions. FIGs vary in size. and structure according. to the size of the diviston and other factors. An Assistant Special Agent in Charge (ASAC) in each field office is assigned responsibility for intelligence- related functions and has oversight of the FiG. The three field offices headed by an Assistant Director in Charge (the New York, Los Angeles, arid Washington Field Offices) must nave both an SAC and an ASAC so designated FIG personnel analyze and disseminate the intelligence collected in their field office. They conduct intelligence assessments and generate intelligence products in accordance with the FBI's Intelligence Assessment Process CONOP and other intelligence production guidelines. They also support the 24-hour intelligence cycle of the FBI by employing all appropriate resources ta drive the collection and dissemination of threat information, investigative developments (urgent reports), and other significant intelligence to meet the information needs of all consumers Requirements Process FBI agents have always been excellent collectors of information, but this ability to gather information was never fully integrated into an FBl-wide process for identifying and collecting needed intelligence. The Counterintelligence Division has long operated according to a centralized requirernents-driven process for the collection and analysis of intelligence, and that capacity has been critical to tts successes over the years against Soviet spying, Vth = ay ik Bape sa economic espionage, and other efforts to steal our national secrets and penetrate our ‘s institutions. However, because counterintelligence traditionally was conducted without oe significant overlap with other Bureau programs, that intelligence capacity largely remained Ze limited to. the Counterintelligence Program. Since September 11, 2001, we have expanded this requirements process by establishing a formal FBI-wide process for promuigating intelligence requirements and issuing appropriate collection taskings to operational divisions both at Headquarters and in the field. These requirements derive from the National Intelligence Priorities Framework as approved by the National Security and Homeland Security Councils. The new requirements process ensures that a continuing cycle for determining where we have intelligence gaps and targeting our information collection activities to fill those gaps. This cycle takes place at both the fieid and Headquarters levels and has four steps’ Step 1 — Finding out what we know and don’t know First, we survey all available intelligence across the organization, including intelligence from outside partners, to determine where we have intelligence gaps. These gaps, also known as intelligence requirements, are unanswered questions that we need to answer if wé are to have a complete picture of threats in priority areas. The Ol consolidates these gaps and communicates them to supervisors and analysts throughout the Bureau. Analysts in Headquarters operational divisions and in each FIG, tap info all available sources to try to resolve the gaps. 28 MISC DOC. #5_ 000000367