National Intelligence Activity

The National Intelligence Agency (NIA) in your country are annually surveilling as many as 1000 per million individuals who are flagged (on so called watch lists). These individuals are usually well known right wing (NS and/or other nationalists) or left wing (Communist/Anarchist/Islamist) individuals, which are considered a threat against the government and/or constitution.

Collection is the gathering of information using methods such as:

Open source intelligence – the assembling of openly available information, such as that provided in the media and academic journals.

Human intelligence – information collected from agents, defectors, informants, diplomats; or from reports from counterintelligence operations, interrogations, discussions with foreign personnel, etc.; and

Technical intelligence – data and information collected through:

- Intercepts

- Monitoring and localising of radio, microwave, radar and other means of electromagnetic emission

- Communications intelligence

- Electronic intelligence

- Telemetry intelligence

- Foreign instrumentation signals intelligence

- Cryptology intelligence

- Measurement and signatures intelligence

- Imagery intelligence

- Photographic intelligence

- Computer network exploitation

International and national terrorist databases - The TIDE register[1]

Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment (TIDE) is the US governments central repository of information on international terrorist identities. TIDE supports the US governments various terrorist screening systems or “watchlists”. The Terrorist Identities Group (TIG), located in NCTCs Information Sharing & Knowledge Development Directorate (ISKD), is responsible for building and maintaining TIDE.

The TIDE database includes the identities of individuals known or suspected to be or have been involved in activities constituting, in preparation for, in aid of, or related to politically motivated violence, with the exception of Purely Domestic Terrorism information.

The database contains 564 000 names, (500 000) separate identities due to aliases/name variants. US persons including both citizens and legal permanent residents make up less than five percent (25 000) of the listings.

In 2008 more than 27 000 names were removed from TIDE when it was determined tha they no longer met the criteria for inclusion.

Source:

1. https://www.nctc.gov/docs/Tide_Fact_Sheet.pdf