Army MOS · Intelligence

351M Human Intelligence Collection Technician

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Overview

A Human Intelligence Collection Technician conducts foreign-language interrogations of informants, prisoners of war, and refugees and applies document exploitation techniques. This technician prepares and disseminates reports, resolves conflicting information, assesses source information, manages human intelligence assets, and assists with long-range planning.

Minimum clearance: TS/SCI

Core Skills

  • Foreign-language interrogation and document exploitation
  • Conflicting source information resolution and validation
  • Interrogation report preparation and dissemination
  • HUMINT team supervision and asset planning

Civilian Career Paths

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DIA Human Intelligence Officer

Experience conducting interrogations, validating and disseminating reports, supervising HUMINT teams and managing collection assets aligns with DIA overt collection and operations support work.

How to prepare: Build a resume that maps your collection, reporting and supervisory experience to DIA's overt collection or operations support functions. DIA hiring requires U.S. citizenship, a granted security clearance, a thorough background inquiry, personal interviews and drug screening, plus medical examinations and a counterintelligence-scope polygraph when required.

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (3 documents)
  1. Army COOL MOC feed: 351M Human Intelligence Collection Technician

    [1] data/authority/army-codes.json entry 351M (OSD COOL feed, fetched 2026-07-25); DB rank warrant_officer, authority codeType warrant_officer

    Supports: Foreign-language interrogation and document exploitation, Conflicting source information resolution and validation, Interrogation report preparation and dissemination, HUMINT team supervision and asset planning, DIA Human Intelligence Officer

  2. Defense Intelligence Agency: Human Intelligence Career Field

    [2] Career Overview, Career Specifics, Overt Collection and Operations Support; retrieved through Jina Reader September 23, 2026

    Supports: DIA Human Intelligence Officer

  3. Defense Intelligence Agency: Hiring Process

    [3] Opening hiring overview and Employment Criteria, Initial Employment; public page retrieved through Jina Reader 2026-09-23

    Supports: DIA Human Intelligence Officer

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