Federal Bureau of Investigation's Foreign Language Program: Translation of Counterterrorism and Counterintelligence Foreign Language Material;Audit rept

摘要

Critical to the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) success in protecting national security is its ability to prioritize, translate, and understand in a timely fashion the information to which it has access. In this regard, the Foreign Language Programs support to the FBIs law enforcement function is substantial. In addition to supporting the FBIs two highest priorities of counterterrorism and counterintelligence, increasing demands have been placed on the Foreign Language Program to support the FBIs criminal and cybercrimes programs, international training, international deployments, and interpreting/interviewing assignments. This is an unclassified executive summary of the Office of the Inspector Generals (OIG) 157-page audit report, which was classified Secret by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). To create an unclassified executive summary for public release, the OIG redacted (whited out) the portions of the full executive summary that were classified by the FBI. The redacted portions are noted, and included references to specific languages and FBI field offices, and the identification of certain capabilities and vulnerabilities. The full report was provided previously to the Department of Justice, the FBI, and several Congressional committees.