The CIA Directorate Of Science And Technology

What are the responsibilities of The Directorate of Science and Technology?

The Directorate of Science and Technology tries to uncover secrets through technical means, such as spy satellites, bugs, and putting devices on computers. They will also help CIA officers communicate secretly through, for example, again computers, and they will develop devices to detect possible nuclear devices. They will develop methods for detecting possible biological agents that might be used against us. So, it's a broad range of scientific efforts to uncover information.

What types of technology have been created in the Directorate of Science and Technology?

The science and technology will actually develop new devices either themselves or through contractors, for example incredibly small bugs. Bugs are as tiny as a single thread of fiber which can be introduced to a wall and painted over, and which would transmit conversation from, for example, an Al' Queada hideout or from a Russian embassy. So they are always way ahead of what you see commercially, and again these are examples of secrets that go on in the CIA that the media never know about and is one reason why the CIA has been effected.

What are the responsibilities of the SIGNIT Operations?

The SIGNIT operations refer to methods of intercepting communications beyond what NSA does. For example, finding out what embassies are transmitting, learning when the watchman is going to be going by in a particular embassy; by intercepting his walkie-talkie communications so that the CIA can break into that embassy and introduce bugs and steal their codes, so that they can decipher what their messages say.