Powers of Sigint and Comint

This book is a deep dive into one of Britain's pioneer intelligence agencies

Behind the Enigma: The authorised history of GCHQ Britain’s secret cyber intelligence agency

Author: John Ferris
Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Pages: 823

Price: Rs 999

The acquisition, and analysis of signals intelligence and communications intelligence — information and data sieved out of intercepted communications — can provide a decisive edge “in a large minority of cases” according to the author. Humint — the acquisition of intelligence by humans — has been far more glamorised in countless books and films. But signals intelligence and communications Intelligence — Sigint and Comint— is more reliable, and 99.9 per cent of modern intelligence acquisition falls into this