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FBI Counterintelligence Program

The Counterintelligence program protects the U.S. against foreign intelligence operations and espionage. Program activities are carried out by special agents, analysts, and other staff in FBI field offices who integrate intelligence and law enforcement efforts to investigate violations of espionage statutes.

Rating

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PERFORMING
Moderately Effective

In general, a program rated Moderately Effective has set ambitious goals and is well-managed. Moderately Effective programs likely need to improve their efficiency or address other problems in the programs' design or management in order to achieve better results.
  • In 2004, the FBI began conducting comprehensive reviews of the Counterintelligence program at field offices to determine whether the program was meetings its performance goals. Each office has been reviewed at least once, and continuing reviews are scheduled.
  • The program has fallen short on some of its annual goals in recent years. The program strives to ensure that its field offices have partnered with other intelligence agencies, have contact with possible targets of spies, and have identified any operations of threat countries in their areas.
  • The FBI also has agency-wide challenges that affect this program. Specifically, the FBI does not tie its budget requests to its performance goals, and its audits show financial management system deficiencies that compromise the Bureau's ability to manage its programs.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Improving performance on annual measures.
  • Strengthening the links between budget requests and performance levels.

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