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 June 2016 DHS Bulletin In Effect 

Director, Counterintelligence 

NASA CI/CT MONTHLY NEWS UPDATE – August 2016 

This monthly newsletter is published to increase NASA personnel awareness of significant current 

issues related to counterintelligence, counterterrorism, and counterintelligence cyber matters. To 

learn more about CI/CT awareness, or to schedule a CI/CT presentation, please contact the CI 

POC located on the last page. 

Significant Counterterrorism (CT) Issues: 

INSIDE ISIS: QUIETLY PREPARING FOR THE LOSS OF THE ‘CALIPHATE’

Even as it launches waves of terrorist attacks around the globe, the Islamic State 

is quietly preparing its followers for the eventual collapse of the caliphate it 

proclaimed with great fanfare two years ago. 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/inside-isis-quietly-preparingfor-the-loss-of-the-caliphate/2016/07/12/9a1a8a02-454b-11e6-8856-f26de2537a9d_story.html

IS TERRORISM GETTING WORSE? IT DEPENDS WHERE YOU LOOK.

Why, 15 years after President Bush vowed to defeat terrorism, does it 

seem like the world is awash in it? According to a terrorism expert at 

Georgetown University, one of the key explanations boils down to two 

words: Civil War. 

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/07/terrorism-isis-global-america/490352/

THE MYTH OF LONE-WOLF TERRORISM 

The tendency to view lone attackers as unconnected to the broader ISIS 

organization prevented observers from fully comprehending the magnitude of 

the network that was behind the complex coordinated attacks in Paris and 

Brussels. 

http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/gartenstein-ross-daveed-the-myth-of-lone-wolf-terrorism/

Significant Counterintelligence Issues: 

CHINA'S OLD-SCHOOL SPIES 

Chinese officials and citizens engage all kinds of activities that can be viewed 

as intelligence work—from stealing intellectual property, to surveilling students 

to organizing overseas Chinese communities to covert influence to recruiting 

sources. http://nationalinterest.org/feature/chinas-old-school-spies16899?platform=hootsuite%20&utm_source=360Works%20CloudMail&utm_medium=email&ut

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RUSSIAN FOREIGN INTEL HQ HAS MORE THAN DOUBLED IN SIZE SINCE 2007

Recent satellite images reveal that the headquarters of the Russian 

Federation’s external intelligence agency has doubled, and 

possibly tripled, in size in the past nine years. The Russian 

Foreign Intelligence Service, known as SVR, is one of the 

successor agencies of the Soviet-era KGB. 

https://intelnews.org/2016/07/14/01-1939/

SELLING SECRETS? A JASON BOURNE FAN ARRESTED IN SPY DRAMA 

Gregory Allen Justice had a sick wife, a job at which he felt 

unappreciated and a fascination with cinematic secret operatives such as 

Jason Bourne and James Bond. He had a special love for “The 

Americans,” the FX series about KGB spies in the United States. As an 

engineer on the night shift at a large defense contractor, Justice had 

access to sensitive technical data about military and commercial satellites, according to federal 

authorities. He was arrested on charges that he sold information to a man he believed was an 

agent of Russian intelligence. 

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-espionage-charges-20160709-snap-story.html

Analyst Notes – Items to Watch: 

 The ISIS offensive during the 2016 Ramadan season has shown the worldwide impact that the 

ISIS “message” continues to possess. ISIS sympathizers and followers have continued to attack 

“soft targets” across the globe. ISIS continues to attract radical Islamic followers, with the 

acknowledged number of ISIS “allied” groups now at 45. Conventional espionage conducted 

against the United States continues unabated. Both the Russian and Chinese intelligence services 

have grown and continue to focus on the U.S. and the West, especially in collecting advanced 

technology. The NASA CI/CT division continues to monitor these threats and any others that 

have the potential to harm NASA or its equities. 

NASA CI Offices:

Ames Research Center:

Armstrong Flight Research Center:

Glenn Research Center: 

Goddard Space Flight Center:

Jet Propulsion Laboratory:

Johnson Space Center:

Kennedy Space Center:

Langley Research Center:

Marshall Space Flight Center:

NASA Headquarters:

Stennis Space Center:

NASA Headquarters Cyber:

NCIJTF Cyber:

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