Downloaded from https://www.everyspec.com FM 34-54 Psychological Operations Teams . PSYOP personnel support theater, corps, and division. Historically, PSYOP has supported TECHINT collection through creative PSYOP designed to secure TECHINT-related CEM, information, and/or personnel. An example of a PSYOP success comes from the Korean War. A North Korean pilot was paid a $100,000 bounty for flying his Soviet MiG-15 to the south, after the bounty was offered by leaflet and radio. The benefits were enormous. The Communists grounded all MiG flights for eight days; and getting the MiG turned out to be a TECHINT windfall.
PSYOP specifically designed to provide TECHINT occurred during the Vietnam War. A PSYOP campaign encouraged enemy soldiers to surrender with their weapons and equipment intact; rewards were offered and paid to Viet Cong and NVA troops who did this. This type of campaign not only reduced the number of weapons available to the enemy but also provided a continuous source of materiel for the CMEC to exploit. Civil Affairs Elements . These elements provide support to tactical and operational commanders by coordinating between military forces, civil authorities, and area of operations personnel.
CA support to the battlefield TECHINT process includes— Providing SMEs to assist in the TECHINT analysis of food and agriculture; public communications, health, transportation, and supply; public works and utilities; and centers of commerce and industry. Securing TECHINT-related materiel and foreign experts having CA wartime responsibility for civil administration and refugee handling. ENGINEER TOPOGRAPHIC AND TERRAIN UNITS: These units are responsible for collecting, evaluating, and disseminating topographic information and terrain intelligence. They normally function at theater, corps, and division levels.
TECHINT units use engineer topographic and terrain products to support TECHINT collection planning. Engineers also support analysis and exploitation of CEM and facilities when this materiel is within their field of expertise. MILITARY POLICE: The military police fulfill a wide range of duties on the battlefield, to include providing route security for evacuating CEM and handling EPWs. In performance of these duties they often confiscate CEM from EPWs. Military police follow specific procedures for notifying MI personnel of equipment or documents of intelligence interest discovered incidental to EPW handling operations. 5-10