HUMINT

HUMINT (an abbreviation of Human Intelligence) is intelligence information got from personal contacts. It is a term used in the spy community of the NATO countries.

Sources
Sources may be neutral, friendly, or hostile. They may or may not know they are giving information.Benedict, Ruth 1989. The Chrysanthemum and the Sword: patterns of Japanese culture. Mariner Books. ISBN 0-395-50075-3. Very widely used source for interpreting Japanese culture.Compos, Don The interrogation of suspects under arrest. (pdf), Studies in Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency.  Walton, Douglas 2003. The interrogation as a type of dialogue. Journal of Pragmatics 35: 1771.  Skerker, Michael 2010. An ethics of interrogation. Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press. Examples of HUMINT sources are:
Advisors or foreign internal defence personnel working with the host nation forces or populations;
Diplomatic reporting by accredited diplomats (e.g. military attachés);
Espionage: secret reporting, using agents, couriers, cutouts;
Military attachés: getting information is their job;
Non-governmental organizations (NGOs);
Prisoners of war (POWs) or other detainees;
Refugees;
Routine patrolling (by military police,  etc);
Talking to travellers  (e.g. the CIA Domestic Contact Service).

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