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MAGIC.SeePURPLE.MARINE CORPS INTELLIGENCE. According to the Marine
Corps, its intelligence mission is to provide commanders at every
level with seamless, tailored, timely, and mission-critical tactical in-
telligenceand to ensure this intelligence is integrated into the opera-
tional planning process. Two-thirds of all intelligence marines serve
in the operating forces, with the majority assigned to the staffs and
units of tactical commands.
The Marine Corps director of intelligence (DIRINT) is the com-
mandant’s principal intelligence staff officer and the functional man-
ager for intelligence, counterintelligence, and cryptologicmatters.
Through his staff within the intelligence department at Marine Corps
headquarters, DIRINTallocates resources and manpower to develop
and maintain specific expertise in the areas of human and technical
reconnaissance and surveillance, general military/naval intelligence
duties, human intelligence (HUMINT), counterintelligence, im-
agery intelligence (IMINT), signals intelligence(SIGINT), and tac-
tical exploitation of national capabilities.
The Marine Corps Intelligence Activity (MCIA) is the service pro-
duction center and is collocated with the navy’s National Maritime
Intelligence Center (NMIC). The MCIA provides Marine Corps
headquarters with threat assessments, estimates, and intelligence for
service planning and decision making. It also provides combat plan-
ners with threat data and other intelligence support for doctrine and
force structure development, systems and equipment acquisition, war
gaming, and training and education. It is fully integrated into the De-
partment of Defense(DOD) intelligence production program and is
tasked with expeditionary warfare intelligence to support all, not just
Marine Corps, decision makers.MAYAGUEZ INCIDENT. The Mayaguez incident refers to the seiz-
ing of an U.S. merchant ship on 12 May 1975 by Khmer Rouge gun-
boats in international waters off Cambodia. Arescue operation on 15
May 1975, including the landing of marines, succeeded in freeing the
ship. However, the Americans sustained at least 40 killed and 50118 • MAGIC05-398 (2) Dictionary.qxd 10/20/05 6:27 AM Page 118