Communications Intelligence
- (COMINT) Technical and intelligence information derived from foreign communications by other than the intended recipients. (JCS1-DoD)
- Intelligence derived from interception of communications. *Technical and intelligence information derived from intercept of foreign communications by other than the intended recipients; it does not include the monitoring of foreign public media or the intercept of communications obtained during the course of counterintelligence investigations within the United States COMINT includes the fields of traffic analysis, cryptanalysis, and direction finding (IC Staff, Glossary of Intelligence Terms and Definitions, 6/89)