Intelligence Collection - Essay Example

INTELLIGENCE COLLECTION (Legal essay) of the School Teachers Submitted: Part Material collection – a fairly recent event that captured global attention was the shooting down of a Malaysian airlines passenger jet (MH-17) over the troubled Ukraine region on the Russian border back in July 17 of this year. All the 298 people on board were lost which included 15 crew members and 283 passengers (including 80 children). There was initially some confusion over what actually happened to the airplane after it suddenly lost contact without any warning especially in light of the still unsolved MH-370 which disappeared without a trace.

The subsequent retrieval operations in an area controlled by Russian-backed separatist rebels was the result of intense diplomatic negotiations to allow access but the importance of this request was to gather additional incriminating evidence as to who really shot down the airplane. An implication of materials and biologic collection techniques was to detect any traces of chemicals used in the shooting down of that plane using a missile (BBC News Europe para. 4). Chemical evidence as to what type of missile it was (a Buk or SA-11 version) can complement eyewitness accounts on the ground (HUMINT) as well as data from the radar systems in the flight path (COMINT). Part 2. Materiel Acquisition – the value of acquiring sensitive materials like that of what happened during a mid-air collision between a Chinese fighter jet and an American spy plane is to gain intelligence about what materials were used on the manufacture of the plane (sensitive or light-weight metals or other materials that deflect radar) or the extremely sophisticated electronic systems and avionics used on the spy plane.

It allows China access to all these materials and be able to study them later in their own laboratories. The particular spy plane was made by the firm of defense contractor Lockheed and forced to land in Hainan Island after being damaged. But the plane was eventually returned to the U.S. in its dismantled form already (Eckert, 2002). Its value in intelligence was allow the Chinese to study as they cannot have it due to arms restrictions. ReferencesBBC News Europe (2014, September 09). "MH17 Malaysia plane crash in Ukraine: What we know.

" BBC News. Retrieved October 29, 2014 from http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-28357880Eckert, P. (2002, April 3). "Dismantled U. S. spy plane flown out of China." ABC News. Retrieved October 29, 2014 from http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=80826 Due: October 31, 2014 @ 1:59 a.m.