1. List and describe the three levels of classified information. What distinguishes each level?

2. What is the difference between a right to know and a need to know? Describe why they are fundamental parts of Counterintelligence (CI)?

3. Explain how someone obtains a security clearance. Specifically, what does the government evaluate regarding its applicants? Why?

4. What is the difference between an asset and an informant?

5. Explain the "False Flag" technique.

6. The DNI maintains that U.S. agencies have a "responsibility to provide" information to each other. Do you think this standard is difficult for agencies to implement? Why or why not? Include reasons listed in the text as well as some of your own.

7. Why might an intelligence agency want to spread disinformation to an adversary? Give an example of when such actions might benefit the country doing it.