30 NAVY NEWS, NOVEMBER 2007
Get wise on DCI
SET IN 660 acres in the including Communications applied language training across camera work, accident and
heart of the Bedfordshire
Military intelligence is not something which appears Technicians, Royal Marines, the three Armed Forces. investigative training for all three
countryside, it would
in the pages of Navy News very often. Capt Paul
the Royal Signals, Intelligence Recognising the importance services.
be diffi cult to identify a
Burrell RN, Director of the Defence College of
Corps and RAF Intelligence of physical and documentary With a history on the
branch personnel. security as a fundamental Hermitage site dating back to
more striking defence
Intelligence, hopes to shed some light into this murky
The newly-created ISTAR element of the counter- 1949 and having been granted
site or one that is further
world – and above all the men and women who train
(Intelligence, Surveillance, intelligence trade, Unit Security its Royal status in 1996, the
from the sea than the
the people who control the countless tentacles of Target Acquisition and Offi cer courses for the RN Royal School of Military Survey
Defence Intelligence and
information.
Reconnaissance) training and Army and the IT security provides geospatial training to
department is at the forefront investigator and advisor courses MSc level for Royal Engineer
Security Centre (DISC) at of training Service personnel for are delivered by the Security Offi cers and foreign students
Chicksands.
photography and geospatial it was returned to the MOD. current operations. Training Department, which is through the Army Survey Course
Nevertheless, a number of
disciplines. Today, the establishment is The Tactical Intelligence led by a Royal Marines major. and to a Foundation Degree
Royal Navy and Royal Marines
The centrepiece of the site home to the Defence College (Counter Insurgency) Branch Despite all the wizardry of the level for soldiers of the Royal
serve within the DISC, many
is the remarkable 12th-Century of Intelligence under Capt Paul provides intelligence training 21st Century world, a signifi cant Engineer Geo-Technician trade.
employed by the Defence
priory which is, given its age, Burrell RN, although the college designed to prepare a proportion of intelligence To exploit the growing links
College of Intelligence (DCI),
unsurprisingly haunted. is split across the country. battlegroup, battalion, brigade continues to be gathered between imagery intelligence
responsible for delivering
Legend has it that Rosata, a The Defence School of or division’s intelligence cell for through human sources. and geo-spatial intelligence,
defence intelligence training in
nun, fell pregnant to one of the Intelligence can be found in operational duties in Afghanistan The Human Intelligence the RSMS has recently
security, language, intelligence,
canons. For her transgression Chicksands itself; the Defence
and Iraq while the Tactical training department delivers taken control of the Imagery
she was walled up alive in the School of Languages at
Intelligence (Conventional) a range of courses covering: Intelligence training department
cloister after witnessing the Beaconsfi eld; the Defence
Branch delivers training to non- security and intelligence training at Chicksands and the imagery
execution by disembowelment of School of Photography (DSOP)
intelligence specialists. for attachés and their staffs; analysts it trains.
the canon who was responsible at Cosford, near Wolverhampton,
The branch also supports the overt and covert agent handling Visitors, both national and
for her situation. She reputedly and the Royal School of Military
annual two-week International techniques; debriefi ng; tactical international, to the Defence
continues to walk the priory on Survey (RSMS) at Hermitage,
Intelligence Director’s Course, questioning; interrogation and College of Intelligence are
the 17th of each month. near Newbury.
which draws together senior surveillance techniques. frequent and the organisation
All of which has very little to Almost 5,000 people pass
offi cers from 26 nations for a Finally, with Chicksands being enjoys links with local Sea Cadet
do with defence intelligence, but through the various college
series of intelligence-related the home of the Intelligence and school CCF units.
we thought you’d like the grue- ‘campuses’ each year, tutored
seminars and discussions. Corps, the Templer training While training necessarily
some tale. by some 470 staff, 38 of them
The Analysis Training Branch department provides military dominates activities, both staff
Anyway, Chicksands’ mili- RN or RM.
does just that; it teaches and professional training for the and trainees make good use of
tary life only began when the At the core of the college, and
personnel a wide range of Intelligence Corps’ soldiers and the wide range of sporting and
Air Ministry snapped up the led by a Royal Navy commander,
analytical techniques and offi cers, with the fundamental other activities that are on offer
site in 1936 and developed it is the Training Policy and
delivers IT training in support of aim of engendering and nurturing through the extensive facilities
into as a code intercept sta- Management Department which
analysts’ work. Intelligence Corps’ spirit and on all four sites and have
tion supporting the signal ensures both defence-wide and
The Air Intelligence Training ethos. achieved success in a variety of
intelligence programme single Service training policies
Department provides initial Moving on to the Defence unit level single and inter-service
carried out at Bletchley are implemented across the
Park. organisation.
specialist training for RAF School of Languages, headed competitions.
After WW2, the Having undergone a recent
intelligence offi cers and by an RN commander, it teaches It’s fair to say that while many
site was used by the and fundamental reorganisation,
intelligence trades, although around 400 people across miles from the sea and without
US Air Force as a the Defence School of
a number of RN offi cers have the spectrum of operationally a warship in sight, the Defence
Signals Intelligence Intelligence now comprises
attended this training as related-languages. College of Intelligence is a busy
(or SIGINT) centre until six departments, responsible
an element of professional Graduates of the Defence and thriving unit delivering
September 1995 when for specialist trade training
development before working in School of Photography are operationally-focused training.
naval intelligence. responsible for the images The RN and RM personnel
Maintaining its wartime roots, which fi ll Navy News. The serving within the organisation
the SIGINT training department photographers trained at are making an active and valued ● The business end of RN intelligence... A Royal Marines
boarding party climbs aboard a tanker in the northern at Chicksands site provides Cosford are trained not merely contribution to the training
Arabian Gulf – an operation based on intelligence signal collection, analysis, in the art of still photography for of intelligence in its broadest
gathered... and an operation to gather intelligence reporting, exploitation and PR purposes, but also combat sense.
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