Good morning. Welcome to the course this is human intelligence or humans advanced one. That obviously means that there may well be an advanced two and an advanced three. But for those who did not, or have not had the opportunity to look through the introductory course, we're going to be covering a few more of the similar subjects from the introductory course but in much more detail obviously. So if you haven't had a chance, look at the introductory course see if it suits your needs, have a look. And then also you can follow on to the advanced course.

So we're going to look at over this course is touch on some of the human developments from the introductory course. But mostly we're going to look at the access motivation point of contact and capability of a source also known as an POC for short. And now we're going to look at welfare because most sources Come with some challenges, you will very rarely get a source who is so easy to use that you can constantly ask them for information and you'll get information back, it varies. The problems will vary in depth, and some will have considerable issues and maybe something like payment. You can't pay them if that's what the relationship is. And there'll be other challenges that come up, and we'll discuss that later on.

And of course, active listening. This is a critical component of human intelligence. If you cannot actively listen, and by that, I mean making all the body language cues to encourage the conversation but actually listening to what is being said so you can get the information and also to build rapport so that the source appreciates the fact that you're listening and we'll talk more And that will build rapport and itself. And that will build the relationship and that will build much more continuity for further source management, tasking and training. Sometimes you may ask your source to do things that they don't have the capability to do. And that's different from the capability of an Park.

And you'll learn more. But tasking training is how do you actually get across to the source, what you need and how they should go about it. And also, they may need specific training, something like the use of a smartphone, and I'm talking about if you're up if you're operating or working in areas that aren't as technically advanced as maybe where you live. So you might have to train them in how to use a smartphone. This may be done face to face or it may be done remotely or you may just provide them with a link to say click on this and this will take you to YouTube and this will show you how to use the camera on the smartphone. For instance.

And but there's ways and means of doing that. And also, you, as you build your capabilities of your source, you're building that confidence, you're building the relationship, you're building that rapport, which will continue and provide better information as an end result. And then we're going to start touching on real hands on stuff. So up until the surveillance awareness point, you could do most of this on line. But now we're going to talk about surveillance awareness at the end of this, which will take us into the more physical aspects of source handling bearing in mind, human, a lot of it is physical components. There are physical components to it.

And the definitely the report is definitely relationship building. And so, if you're meeting people, for instance, then you have to be safe. If you're going to meet people in a pub or a restaurant or a cafe. You will want to know if you've been watched Possibly by criminals, whoever else. But also you'll want your source to be aware. So you may have to teach your source, how to be a bit more surveillance aware.

It may not be anything related to what you're doing. It may be that you just want them to be safe. Or you may want to use this surveillance awareness as training to build more rapport and in slightly different direction or enhance the sources capabilities. It will vary but surveillance awareness is designed so that you and your source are a little bit more aware of what's going on around you so that you're not going to catch you get caught out or catch yourself out as well. I was gonna say. So looking back on what we said in the introductory course.

There are lots and lots of definitions of human intelligence online, have a look, look through civilian military, and they're all the same to a certain degree. Obviously, the military have different reasons. For source handling, the police do, intelligence services do and civilian organizations do. So there'll be some variation on that theme. NATO has a good definition the category of intelligence derived from information provided by human source, pretty self explanatory really, but bearing in mind that nowadays that source can be at the other end of a WhatsApp, or the other end of Skype in a different continent, continent. So you can be working with someone in Africa to provide you with information or even services.

And you would want to develop that relationship by building rapport, increasing their capabilities, and building confidence. And defense depends a lot on your job. So as a security manager, you may want to know what's going on outside your area of responsibility so you can better protect a compound your company, you're organizing As a journalist, if you're traveling alone in challenging environments, you may want to quickly build up relationships, build that rapport, and also that will bring in more access to information, of course. So depending on what your role interests are, have looked on Wikipedia, there's a good write up there, as far as human intelligence goes as an intelligence gathering, and the links there for you to copy and use as you wish. And the purposes of human are as varied as they are ancient, as it says, it could support intelligence security operations, but also commercial operations.

If you're drilling for oil in southeastern Ethiopia, then you'll want to know what's going on around you in Kenya and Somalia for instance. You journalists have mentioned but headhunters in the commercial aspect, they will may want to know who the right person to speak to regarding getting the right people into a certain job. And it very much hones interpersonal skills for home and at work for home milling, dealing with your wife or your husband. You might not want to use your, your special skills on your wife or your husband, but actually learning how body language works. Children are great for that. Because they've developed so quickly they learn so much off the TV and from their friends.

It's a great way to build a picture of how humans use body language to communicate. Encourage detailed and persisting persistence gives me interviewing skills, which is very critical for a lot of jobs. You may want to drill down to get that information, but it's difficult if you don't build rapport beforehand. That person that you're speaking to may not let you drill down that far and the conversation. It'll highlight when you've been being given false or misleading information. And as I've said, you can use it remotely.

There are a lot of skills that can be used remotely. Nowadays, I'm talking about Skype or WhatsApp, as well as face to face. But you can hear differences in terms of conversation that may indicate that that person at the other end of the line is trying to mislead you or trying to lie. So we talked about the introductory, learned how to ask the right questions, more management skills, and now we're gonna look at putting those skills together, and how to apply them in the real world and stay safe while you're doing it. I'm not saying it's a dangerous job. It can be obviously if you're a source and we're in Afghanistan, there are inherent risks.

But a lot of it meeting people who initially may be strange to you, there should be some basic precautions that you take. So this whole intermediately intermediary, develop advances all interlocking It's not James Bond. Yeah, no, no, a lot of colleagues, former colleagues, they are by no means James Bond. But it's it's very interesting. And a lot of the skills that intelligence and security services use are based around human intelligence. It will improve your inherent skill sets.

It'll change the way you interact. And it'll probably change your outlook on the information you receive from whoever the source will be. So, if you've done the introductory course, you'll know pretty much all the basics or baseline requirements for a human intelligence operator. So you to understand better what human is. We're going to we've been told on this introduction, what we're going to learn throughout this course leading up to the surveillance awareness, the more physical and out on the ground activities. We've been looking at how it may benefit you.

And there will be some more developed courses coming up after this one. There's a few more things that you may need to know. Well, thank you very much. That's the introduction. I'm looking forward to this.