Mission
CIFA goals were:
- To effectively and efficiently manage and oversee the Defense Department counterintelligence enterprise.
- To synchronize Defense counterintelligence activities across the department, in coordination with the national intelligence community.
- To manage priority counterintelligence plans and projects in fulfillment of national, department and combatant commander requirements.
- To select and develop unique counterintelligence operational support capabilities and make them available to the wider intelligence community.
- To serve as the primary source of career development and training for counterintelligence professionals.
- To identify, develop and field advanced technologies for counterintelligence.
- To create a joint, interoperable and synchronized approach to counterintelligence as a distinct intelligence discipline.
- To assess the feasibility of a department-level joint operational element for Defense counterintelligence.
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