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35M Human Intelligence Collector

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Overview

A Human Intelligence Collector conducts interrogations, debriefings, screenings, source operations, and intelligence liaison to identify adversary elements, activities, intentions, capabilities, and locations. The collector questions people in the operational environment, prepares and disseminates reports, uses HUMINT information systems and databases, manages interpreters, and coordinates with host nation and coalition agencies.

Minimum clearance: TS/SCI

Minimum ASVAB: ST 101

ASVAB policy: Not policy-reviewed · coverage unknown · as of 2026-10-19

Program scope has not been reviewed.

Policy applicability and coverage of the program's score routes have not been reviewed. Shown-route arithmetic is not an eligibility decision.

Source: smartbook-611-21-ch10c-fy2025 (source date 2025-12). Policy applicability has not been established.

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Core Skills

  • Debriefing and screening for intelligence requirements
  • Intelligence report preparation, editing, and dissemination
  • Host-nation and coalition intelligence liaison
  • Classified and public-source research for collection

Civilian Career Paths

Career associations are editorial assessments of the cited evidence, not an official crosswalk unless the evidence explicitly says so. O*NET supplies civilian occupation information, not proof of a military match. Related experience does not confer civilian qualifications. Tasks and tools below describe civilian work, not military training.

DIA Human Intelligence Officer

Military debriefing, interrogation, source operations, liaison, and intelligence reporting directly overlap with DIA overt collection and reporting-support duties.

How to prepare: Prepare an application emphasizing overt collection and reporting experience for DIA's invitation-only hiring events, which account for most hiring at the entry level. Candidates must be U.S. citizens, obtain a security clearance before hiring is finalized, and complete a thorough background inquiry, personal interviews, drug screening, and any required medical examinations and counterintelligence-scope polygraph.

Interpreters and Translators

Foreign-language collection and liaison provide relevant listening and cross-language communication experience only for collectors with personally demonstrated language skills.

How to prepare: Arrange a language-pair proficiency and consecutive-interpreting assessment before pursuing interpreting assignments; managing interpreters alone is not evidence of personal interpreting ability.

What the civilian work involves
  • Follow ethical codes that protect the confidentiality of information.
  • Translate messages simultaneously or consecutively into specified languages, orally or by using hand signs, maintaining message content, context, and style as much as possible.
  • Listen to speakers' statements to determine meanings and to prepare translations, using electronic listening systems as necessary.

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (4 documents)
  1. Army COOL MOC feed: 35M Human Intelligence Collector

    [1] data/authority/army-codes.json entry 35M (OSD COOL feed, fetched 2026-07-25); DB rank enlisted, authority codeType enlisted

    Supports: Debriefing and screening for intelligence requirements, Intelligence report preparation, editing, and dissemination, Host-nation and coalition intelligence liaison, Classified and public-source research for collection, DIA Human Intelligence Officer, Interpreters and Translators (O*NET 27-3091.00)

  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

  4. O*NET: Interpreters and Translators

    [4] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Interpreters and Translators (O*NET 27-3091.00)

Defense contractor jobs for 35M

Predecessor codes

Historical codes with documented links to 35M. Each history page explains the change.

35L1Counter Intelligence Agent97E1Human Intelligence Collector97E2Human Intelligence Collector97E3Human Intelligence Collector97E4Human Intelligence Collector97E5Human Intelligence Collector

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