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E.O. 12958: DECL: 06/16/2034
TAGS: PINR KSPR ECON BU
SUBJECT: (S) REPORTING AND COLLECTION NEEDS: BULGARIA
REF: STATE 18756
Classified By: SUZANNE MCCORMICK, DIRECTOR, INR/OPS. REASON: 1.4(C).
¶1. (S/NF) This cable provides the full text of the new
National HUMINT Collection Directive (NHCD) on Bulgaria
(paragraph 3-end) as well as a request for continued DOS
reporting of biographic information relating to Bulgaria
(paragraph 2).
¶A. (S/NF) The NHCD below supercedes the NHCD contained in Ref
C and reflects the results of a recent Washington review of
reporting and collection needs focused on Bulgaria. The NHCD
sets forth a list of priorities (paragraph 3) and reporting
and collection needs (paragraph 4) intended to guide
participating USG agencies as they allocate resources and
update plans to collect information on Bulgaria. The
priorities may also serve as a useful tool to help the
Embassy manage reporting and collection, including
formulation of Mission Strategic Plans (MSPs).
¶B. (S/NF) This NHCD is compliant with the National
Intelligence Priorities Framework (NIPF), which was
established in response to NSPD-26 of February 24, 2003. If
needed, GRPO can provide further background on the NIPF and
the use of NIPF abbreviations (shown in parentheses following
each sub-issue below) in NHCDs.
¶C. (S/NF) Important information responsive to the NHCD often
is available to non-State members of the Country Team whose
agencies participated in the review leading the the NHCD,s
issuance. COMs, DCMs, and State reporting officers can assist
by coordinating with other Country Team members to encourage
relevant reporting through their own or State Department
channels.
¶2. (S/NF) State biographic reporting ) including on
Bulgarians:
¶A. (S/NF) The intelligence community relies on State
reporting officers for much of the biographical information
collected worldwide. Informal biographic reporting via email
and other means is vital to the community's collection
efforts and can be sent to the INR/B (Biographic) office for
dissemination to the IC. State reporting officers are
encouraged to report on noteworthy Palestinians as
information becomes available.
¶B. (S/NF) Reporting officers should include as much of the
following information as possible when they have information
relating to persons linked to Bulgaria: office and
organizational titles; names, position titles and other
information on business cards; numbers of telephones, cell
phones, pagers and faxes; compendia of contact information,
such as telephone directories (in compact disc or electronic
format if available) and e-mail listings; internet and
intranet "handles", internet e-mail addresses, web site
identification-URLs; credit card account numbers; frequent
flyer account numbers; work schedules, and other relevant
biographical information.
¶3. (S/NF) Bulgarian NHCD outline -- priority issues:
¶A. National Leadership and Governance
1) Rule of Law, Corruption, and Crime (CRIM-4)
2) National Leadership (LEAD-3H)
3) Political Evolution and Democratic Reform (DEPS-4H)
¶B. Energy Security and Foreign Relations
1) Energy Security (ESEC-3H)
2) Russia (FPOL-4H)
3) European Union (FPOL-4H)
4) Black Sea, Balkans, and Other Regional Neighbors
(FPOL-4H)
5) The United States (FPOL-4H)
6) International Organizations and Other Foreign
Relations (FPOL-4H)
¶C. Financial Stability, Economic Development, and Societal
Challenges
1) Financial Stability and Economic Development (ECFS-5)
2) Money Laundering (MONY-4)
3) Demographics, Minorities, and Human Rights (DEMG-5H)
¶D. National Security
1) GRPO can provide text of this issue.
2) North Atlantic Treaty Organization (FMCC-4H)
3) Force Structure, Modernization, and Readiness
(FMCC-4H)
4) Proliferation and Counterproliferation (ACWP-3)
5) Counterterrorism and Terrorism (TERR-4H)
6) Information to Support US Military Operational
Planning (INFR-5H)
¶E. Telecommunications Infrastructure and Information Systems
(INFR-5H)
¶4. (S/NF) Reporting and collection needs:
¶A. National Leadership and Governance
1) Rule of Law, Corruption, and Crime (CRIM-4).
Policies, plans, and efforts to develop, protect, and
strengthen independent and effective judiciary, including
advocates, opponents, obstacles, and progress. Government,
non-public and public views about, and indications of, impact
of corruption and crime on governance, internal development,
financial stability, intelligence and security services,
weapons security, military readiness, and foreign investment.
Details about organized crime groups, including leadership,
links to government and foreign entities, drug and human
trafficking, credit card fraud, and computer-related crimes,
including child pornography. Details about cyber crime.
Government plans and efforts to combat cyber crime. Details
about drug trafficking, including trends, types of drugs,
production, identification of trafficking groups and
individuals, money laundering, and smuggling methods and
routes. Government counter-drug control and enforcement
plans, organizations, capabilities, and activities.
Government efforts to cooperate with international partners
to control illicit drug trade. Illegal acquisition of
government documents, such as passports and driver licenses.
Links between terrorists, organized crime groups, and cyber
criminals. Details about law enforcement organizations and
capabilities, including procedures, capabilities, challenges,
and plans to remedy obstacles to swift and equal justice.
Plans and efforts of law enforcement organizations to use
biometric systems.
2) National Leadership (LEAD-3H). Objectives,
strategies, efforts, authorities, and responsibilities of
national leaders. Philosophies and motives behind leadership
objectives, strategies, and efforts. Identities, motives,
influence, and relations among principal advisors,
supporters, and opponents. Decisionmaking procedures,
including differences under varying circumstances. Relations
among national government entities, including president,
premier, ministers, national security and defense council,
intelligence and security services, legislature, prosecutor
general, and judiciary. Corruption among senior officials,
including off-budget financial flows in support of senior
leaders. Sources of funding for political candidates, and
government plans and efforts to ensure funding transparency.
Public support for or opposition to administration, as well
as government strategies and tactics to increase, maintain,
and exercise authority. Assessment, vulnerability,
personality, financial, health, and biometric information
about current and emerging leaders and advisors.
3) Political Evolution and Democratic Reform (DEPS-4H).
Government and public commitment to, and plans and efforts
to protect and strengthen, representative government, rule of
law, freedom of press, religious freedom, private ownership,
and individual liberties. Policies and efforts regarding
political, judicial, economic, social, and educational
reform. Plans and programs to manage perceptions, including
through media manipulation. Popular attitudes about
Bulgaria,s evolving political, philosophical, and regional
identity. Identification, roles, goals, and composition of
significant societal groups, such as nongovernmental
organizations (NGOs). Developments within political parties
and blocs. Details about internal workings of major
political parties. Strength and vitality of political
parties. Information about opposition and extremist groups,
including domestic and foreign support.
¶B. Energy Security and Foreign Relations
1) Energy Security (ESEC-3H). Policies, plans, and
efforts to diversify energy sources and develop,
rehabilitate, or expand energy infrastructure, including
investment in capacity, efficiency, storage, nuclear power,
flex-fuel, or other sources of alternative energy. Details
about financing strategies, and openness to foreign
investment. Willingness, plans, and efforts to develop and
implement unified Europe energy security strategy. Declared
and secret energy agreements with Russia, Iran, other Caspian
basin countries, and others. Details about national energy
policymakers, key commercial figures in the sector, and their
relations with other national leaders. Views about and
responses to Russian plans and efforts regarding Bulgarian
dependence on Russian energy. Factors, including corruption
and foreign influence, affecting government decisionmaking on
key energy issues. Energy imports, including sufficiency,
impact on economy, and influence on bilateral relations.
Organized crime involvement in energy sector.
2) Russia (FPOL-4H). Policies, plans, and efforts
regarding relations with Russia, especially on strategic
issues, such as energy, security, transportation, and trade.
Details about personal relations between Bulgarian leaders
and Russian officials or businessmen. Senior leadership,
intelligence officials, and ministerial-level vulnerabilities
to Russian influence. Efforts to cooperate with or oppose
Russia in support of, or opposition to, US policies.
Leadership and public views about relations with Russia.
Government and public attitudes about Russia,s strategic
objectives in the region, and Bulgaria,s vulnerability to
Russian coercion and influence. Views about Russian attempts
to exploit historic and current ties in order to influence
internal developments and advance Russia's interests in
Bulgaria and throughout the region.
3) European Union (FPOL-4H). Philosophies and motives
behind leadership objectives, strategies, and efforts
regarding the European Union (EU). Leadership and public
views about levels of influence among European states,
including relations between states and EU institutions as
well as emergence of a preeminent state or a core alliance in
Europe. Evidence of Bulgarian mismanagement of EU funding,
and government efforts to ensure transparent management of
financial aid. Details about formal and informal alliances
between Bulgaria and other EU states, including plans and
efforts to cooperate on issues of mutual concern. Plans and
efforts to cooperate with regional neighbors, EU members, and
non-state actors to influence EU policies. Response to
Russian efforts to influence EU policies through Bulgaria.
Plans and efforts, including investment strategies, regarding
European Security and Defense Policy (ESDP). Plans and
efforts regarding EU expansion. Plans and efforts regarding
specific EU policies and decisions.
4) Black Sea, Balkans, and Other Regional Neighbors
(FPOL-4H). Plans and efforts regarding relations with Black
Sea and other regional neighbors. Plans and efforts to
jointly respond to challenges regarding counterterrorism,
counterproliferation, counternarcotics, and illegal
migration. Plans and efforts regarding cooperative
agreements, especially Black Sea FOR, Harmony, Enhanced Black
Sea Security Proposal, and Black Sea Economic Cooperation
Zone. Bulgarian participation in US-sponsored programs
designed to promote regional security cooperation, healthy
civil-military relations, and effective management of
military resources. Plans and efforts regarding Russian
influence in the region, especially on politics, energy, and
other domestic issues. Plans and efforts to cooperate with
regional neighbors on energy security. Details about
disputes with neighbors. Relations with, and military
deployments in, the Balkans. Plans and efforts to promote
democracy in Eastern Europe and the Balkans. Plans and
efforts regarding Macedonia and Kosovo. Policies, plans, and
efforts regarding Ballistic Missile Defense.
5) The United States (FPOL-4H). Policies, strategies,
and efforts concerning relations with the US. Expectations
regarding diplomatic, security, and economic relations with
the US. Leadership and public perceptions about US regional
policies, presence, and activities. Plans and efforts to
support or oppose US positions in international fora.
6) International Organizations and Other Foreign
Relations (FPOL-4H). Plans and efforts to pursue national
objectives in international fora, such as the United Nations
and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.
Plans and efforts regarding leadership opportunities in
international organizations. Details about relations with
China and nations that are hostile to US interests.
¶C. Financial Stability, Economic Development, and Societal
Challenges
1) Financial Stability and Economic Development
(ECFS-5). Plans and efforts to respond to global financial
crisis. Public response to financial challenges. Plans and
efforts regarding economic cooperation with the US, EU, Group
of Eight, and international financial institutions, including
World Bank, International Monetary Fund (IMF), European Bank
for Reconstruction and Development, and Paris Club.
Opposition, extremist, and fringe group plans and efforts to
exploit financial crisis to achieve objectives. Plans and
efforts to pursue economic reform, including among monetary
and fiscal policies. Plans and efforts to develop national
infrastructure, and private sector and market institutions,
including financial system. Plans and efforts to adopt
international investment norms, protect intellectual
property, and support entrepreneurs, especially in small and
medium businesses. Plans and efforts to attract foreign
investment. Plans and efforts to protect foreign investors
from government corruption and inefficiencies. National and
regional economic conditions, including real output, domestic
and foreign investment, foreign trade, capital flight,
monetization, and gray economy. Role and attitudes of
Currency Board regarding fiscal and monetary policy. Plans
and efforts to limit capital flight and barter. Economic
policy decisionmaker identities, philosophies, roles,
interrelations, and decisionmaking processes. Role of
private businessmen in economic planning. Published and
non-published national budget, including oversight and
associated banks and financial institutions. Details about
major financial institutions. Plans and efforts to comply
with IMF agreements.
2) Money Laundering (MONY-4). Government plans and
efforts to implement anti-money laundering legislation,
enforcement, and prosecution. Money laundering, including
methods, techniques, transactions, locations, and associated
individuals, organizations, and institutions. Use of shell
corporations and non-financial intermediaries, such as
lawyers, accountants, and casinos, as well as related bank
accounts to launder criminal proceeds. Links between money
laundering groups and terrorists. Drug traffic involvement
in money laundering. Use of money laundering as an
influence-gaining measure.
3) Demographics, Minorities, and Human Rights
(DEMG-5H). Information about, and government policies and
efforts regarding, religious and ethnic minorities,
especially Roma and Turks. Public attitudes toward
minorities. Indications of human rights abuses. Details
about demography, including birth rate, fertility rate,
mortality rate, incidence of infectious diseases, and
migration. Plans and efforts to respond to declining birth
rates, including through promotion of immigration.
¶D. National Security
1) GRPO can provide text of this issue and related
requirements.
2) North Atlantic Treaty Organization (FMCC-4H).
Plans, efforts, and ability to maintain defense spending for
force modernization, North Atlantic Treaty Organization
(NATO) interoperability, meeting NATO-required spending
levels and force goals, and defense capability initiative
implementation. Strategy and efforts to win public support
for such spending. Plans and efforts to fulfill commitments
to NATO, including manpower and equipment for out-of-area
operations. Actions to accommodate NATO procedures and
methods. Government and public confidence in NATO Article 5
security guarantees. Attitudes toward stationing or
long-term deployment of NATO or US forces on Bulgarian soil,
NATO commands in Bulgaria, and out-of-country deployments of
Bulgarian forces. Plans and efforts regarding NATO
enlargement, including strategic concepts and future roles of
the alliance. Government, including military, intelligence,
and security service willingness, ability, and efforts to
protect US and NATO classified information. Awareness of and
concern about foreign penetration. Implementation and
strengthening of personnel-vetting procedures. Policies,
plans, and efforts regarding EU defense and security
cooperation, including ESDP; views and intentions regarding
any conflict between ESDP and NATO obligations.
3) Force Structure, Modernization, and Readiness
(FMCC-4H). Details about threat assessment, including
agreement and disagreement among civilian and military
leaders. Perceptions about, and response to, cyber warfare
threat. Plans and efforts to support or oppose US objectives
in Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere. Willingness and
capability to participate in NATO, EU, and other multilateral
relationships, including out-of-area operations,
multinational peacekeeping force in Southeast Europe, and
humanitarian and peacekeeping operations. Policies and
efforts regarding access, overflight, and transit of US
military forces and equipment. Disposition, readiness, and
mission of military forces. Plans and efforts regarding
force structure, military reform, and modernization,
including future roles, strengths, and compositions of
military services. Details about military cooperation with
other nations. Details about defense industry, including
plans and efforts to cooperate with foreign nations and
actors. Weapon system development programs, firms, and
facilities. Types, production rates, and factory markings of
major weapon systems. Decisionmaking regarding acquisition
of US or other nation weapon systems. Military and
paramilitary manpower, structure, budget and expenditure by
service and function, mission, doctrine, tactics, order of
battle, command and control, equipment, maintenance,
training, exercise participation, support for international
peacekeeping operations, professionalism, non-commissioned
officer development, health care, pay, housing, loyalty, and
morale. Civil-military relations. Offensive and defensive
cyber warfare policies, plans, efforts, and capabilities.
Indications of national-level denial and deception program,
including doctrine, targets, goals, organizations, and
activities. Location, mission, organization, associated
personnel, funding, development, and use of underground
facilities and other hardened structures, including for
protection of command and control networks, civil and
military leaders, and critical resources. Details about, and
transfer of, advanced engineering techniques to harden key
facilities, including by use of specialty concretes. Details
about dual use of underground civil infrastructure. Plans
and efforts to help other states develop underground
facilities and other hardened structures.
4) Proliferation and Counterproliferation (ACWP-3).
Commitment, plans, efforts, and ability to manage a secure
military export regime, including details about monitoring
end user activities and imposing penalties for violations.
Organizational readiness and capability of border police and
customs officials to control borders. Plans and efforts to
adhere to international control regimes. Plans and efforts
to implement legislation and enforce effective export
licensing regimes. Willingness and efforts to cooperate with
the US to prevent proliferation. Foreign use of Bulgaria as
weapons transshipment point. Details about weapons
transportation, including associated firms, agents, modes,
methods, routes, nodes, schedules, and communications.
Details about organizations, groups, and individuals engaged
in sales of weapons or technologies, especially to states
that are hostile to US interests or non-state entities.
Plans and efforts to circumvent antiproliferation treaties
and arrangements.
5) Counterterrorism and Terrorism (TERR-4H).
Government counterterrorism policies, plans, capabilities,
and efforts. Government and public support for or opposition
to US efforts, including military operations, in the war on
international terrorism. Government willingness, capability,
and effort to establish and protect legislative framework to
combat terrorists; control borders; detain terrorists; seize
terrorist-associated bank accounts; share intelligence; and
protect weapons, associated facilities, and energy and other
critical infrastructure against terrorist attack and
intrusion. Terrorist plans to attack US and other persons,
facilities, or interests. Terrorist plans and efforts to
acquire or transship chemical, biological, radiological, or
nuclear weapons. Terrorist identities, motives, objectives,
strategies, locations, facilities, command structures, links
to other groups or states, associations with humanitarian or
medical groups, use of forged and/or modified travel
documents, telecommunication methods and modes,
transportation, funding, finance and business operations,
money laundering, security, recruitment, and training.
Indications of foreign entity, public, or local support for
terrorists. Details about terrorist involvement in illicit
drug and other criminal trade.
6) Information to Support US Military Operational
Planning (INFR-5H). Information to support US contingency
planning, including for noncombatant evacuation, and
humanitarian and medical relief operations. Current status,
vulnerability of, and plans to modify, critical
infrastructures, especially transportation, energy, and
communications. Civilian and military medical and life
science capabilities and infrastructures. Military medical
research and development, including new vaccines,
therapeutics, and chemical, biological, radiological, and
nuclear medical defense. Information, including statistics,
about infectious diseases, such as avian influenza,
tuberculosis, human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immune
deficiency syndrome, hepatitis A, and tickborne encephalitis.
Locations and levels of chemical and radiological
contamination of food, water, air, and soil. Locations and
types of industrial facilities with chemicals stored onsite.
Descriptions and locations of potential evacuation sites,
police and fire stations, hospitals, hotels, and diplomatic
facilities. Plans and capabilities of government and NGOs to
support, including provision of security for, relief
operations. Policies, plans, and efforts regarding detained,
captured, and arrested US persons, including prisoners of war
and missing in action.
¶E. Telecommunications Infrastructure and Information Systems
(INFR-5H). Current specifications, vulnerabilities, and
capabilities of, and planned upgrades to, national
telecommunications infrastructure and information systems,
networks, and technologies used by civilian and military
government authorities, including intelligence and security
services. Details about command and control systems and
facilities. National leadership use of, and dependencies on,
dedicated telecommunications infrastructures and information
systems. Details about national and regional
telecommunications policies, programs, regulations, and
training. Information about current, and planned upgrades
to, public sector communications systems and technologies,
including cellular phone networks, mobile satellite phones,
very small aperture terminals, trunked and mobile radios,
pagers, prepaid calling cards, firewalls, encryption,
international connectivity, use of electronic data
interchange, and cable and fiber networks. Information about
wireless infrastructure, cellular communications capabilities
and makes and models of cellular phones and their operating
systems, to include second generation and third generation
systems. Details about the use of satellites for
telecommunication purposes, including planned system
upgrades. Details about Internet and Intranet use and
infrastructure, including government oversight. Details
about foreign and domestic telecommunications service
providers and vendors. Plans and efforts to acquire US
export-controlled telecommunications equipment and
technology. Plans and efforts to export or transfer
state-of-the art telecommunications equipment and technology.
Details about information repositories associated with radio
frequency identification enabled systems used for passports,
government badges, and transportation systems. Official and
personal phone numbers, fax numbers, and e-mail addresses of
principal civilian and military leaders.
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