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This 4 page paper discusses the lessons in Human Intelligence that can be learned from CIA handling of Soviet informants during the Cold War. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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listed below. Citation styles constantly change, and these examples may not contain the most recent updates. Developing Human Intelligence (HUMINT) Lessons Research Compiled for The Paper
Store, Inc. by K. Von Huben 9/2010 Please Introduction While there can be no doubt that technological devices such as spy
satellites are vital to intelligence gathering efforts, the best tool for making sense of human behavior remains the human being. This paper discusses the way in which lessons in human
intelligence (HUMINT) can be developed. Discussion Human intelligence in this paper refers to information, and specifically the type of information gathered by and useful to intelligence agencies, rather than actual
brainpower. It will be abbreviated HUMINT throughout. In addition, the paper mainly uses the case of Pyotr Popov to explain the lessons in obtaining the most useful HUMINT. The major
players in this scenario are Pyotr Popov, a Soviet officer who supplied information to the CIA, and his "handler," a CIA operative named George Kisevalter. Kisevalter was so good at
what he did that he was considered by his colleagues to be a "spymaster." His talent for his work was so enormous that he gained the trust of several important
Soviets, not only Popov. (Almost all of them were eventually found out, unfortunately for them, but their fate doesnt lessen Kisevalters accomplishment in getting htem to give him information in
the first place.) For reasons that are unclear, Popov doesnt appear to have been recruited by the CIA; instead, he came to their attention through his own actions. In December,
1952, he spoke to an American vice-consul and asked the man for the location of the American Commission for Austria.1 The vice-counsel said he could drive Popov to the Commission,
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