Birds do it, bees do it -- even educated slugs do it! But you can’t do it…that is smell certain chemicals, feel an earthquake before it hits, or sense changes in the atmosphere. That’s why spy agencies have invented super sensors to collect invisible intelligence -- chemical traces, nuclear particles, vibrations, and wave-lengths – that can be used to identify and track targets. Sound like magic? If you’ve been through a security scanner at an office building or had your luggage wanded at the airport, then you’ve had invisible intelligence collected from you, too. Today, intelligence agencies are developing ever more sophisticated tools to sniff, scan, and zap both people and the environment, and collect ever more intelligence on the world around us.
This “forensic intelligence” is a huge force multiplier. It is the key to understanding stealth, adversary submarines; confirming terrorist deaths; “Plan B” for destroyed intel satellites; tracking nuclear bombs; and peering at other weapons of mass destruction. Join us for an introduction to the too little-known field of Measurement and Signature Intelligence (MASINT) from Peter Humphrey. Humphrey is an all-source analyst: a researcher and writer with some 50 publications in the fields of intelligence, international affairs, and geophysics. He has worked as a diplomat, intelligence analyst, and international affairs professor, teaching at DIA’s National Intelligence University and DOD’s National Defense University. Humphrey is a former Foreign Service Officer, who served as consular officer and Science Attaché at the US Embassy in Mexico City, then returned to the State Department to liaise with UN agencies in Rome. While serving as State/INR’s intelligence analyst for Iraq and Iran, he attended DIA’s National Intelligence University, where he later taught international strategic affairs. He worked as senior all-source intelligence analyst in Battelle’s Special Program’s Office, specializing in 'open source' augmentation of classified biological warfare, terrorism, and arms trafficking leads. Humphrey will use examples from the past as well as current examples drawn from open source to demystify MASINT.
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