Homeland Security
You are an intelligence analyst for the Department of Homeland Security assigned to the Office of Intelligence
and Analysis (DHS-OIA). You are currently working in the Special Events Unit, and you are responsible for
producing an intelligence assessment outlining potential threats to the upcoming United Nations General
Assembly (UNGA) meeting that is to take place in New York City later this year. To successfully complete this
assessment, you must work closely with your federal partners in the U.S. intelligence community (horizontal
integration) as well as your partners within the state, local, and international communities (vertical integration).
Your supervisor has given you a list of intelligence requirements pertaining to the upcoming event and has
asked you to draft an intelligence collection plan based on those requirements.
The intelligence requirements are as follows:
What individuals or groups are planning terrorist acts directed at the UNGA meeting in New York?
What individuals, groups, or delegations attending the UNGA meeting in New York are being targeted by
domestic or international terrorists?
What groups or individuals associated with criminal or terrorist activities are active in the New York area of
operations?
Which foreign intelligence service will attempt to use the UNGA meeting in New York as an intelligence
collection opportunity?
Which delegations attending the UNGA meeting in New York are being targeted by foreign intelligence
services?
For this assignment, you must write an intelligence collection plan of 2-3 pages detailing how DHS-OIA will use
horizontal and vertical integration to successfully address these requirements and identify any potential
intelligence gaps. In addition, you must discuss each requirement individually and outline which sources and
methods will be used against that particular requirement and how you plan to address gaps if necessary. This
assignment will require additional outside research, and you should document your research accordingly.