Article: COMINT (Communications Intelligence)

COMINT (Communications Intelligence)

JUDSON KNIGHT

COMINT or communications intelligence is intelligence gained through the interception of foreign communications, excluding open radio and television broadcasts. It is a subset of signals intelligence, or SIGINT, with the latter being understood as comprising COMINT and ELINT, electronic intelligence derived from non-communication electronic signals such as radar. During the early part of the modern intelligence era, the terms "signals intelligence" and "communications intelligence" were used virtually interchangeably, and therefore, much of what was described as signals intelligence in World War II is more properly ...

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