DX begins work on three dimensional models and a Hostage Intelligence Support Package (HISP) covering some thirty locations in Iraq.

DX-5 begins providing daily imagery derived reports on targets identified as possible American citizen detention areas.

DX begins to develop a BDA concept of operations, having been charged with the responsibility for all phases of imagery exploitation in support of BDA.

DX develops a BDA workbook containing gridded target graphics, maps, and reporting EEI's on some 309 primary and secondary targets.

DX establishes Central Tasking Cell (CTC) in the Pentagon to facilitate tasking coordination with the ITF and DoDJIC.

September -
January 1991

DAT-6 levies further taskings to acquire specific details, as a result of earlier reporting, describing the Iraqi rigging of the Kuwaiti oil fields for demolition.

DC begins acquiring baseline imagery coverage for BDA targets.

DIA sets into motion an imagery "blitz" to determine ground order of battle.

DIA sponsored MIB team conducts assessment visit to CENTCOM.

DIA develops draft concept of operations to integrate the entire Intelligence Community in support of DESERT SHIELD BDA.

DI-6 requests release authority for five more Coalition allies (granted 10 Dec).

CENTCOM establishes JIC Forward.

DIA sponsored MIB team releases report on CENTCOM visit.

DIA establishes DODIIS e-mail link between DIA and CENTCOM.

DC-1 prepares a point paper for the Director, DIA on the diversion of reconnaissance assets from counternarcotics to DESERT SHIELD.

DX joins the ad hoc Command, Control, and Communications (C3) Fusion Cell in an effort to assist the DoDJIC in identifying the Iraqi C3 network in the KTO.

JS sends his deputy (an Army colonel) to be the CENTCOM JIC Commander, after the CENTCOM J2 requests him by name.

NMIST deploys to US Special Operations Central Command (SOCCENT).

Special DIA ad hoc group meets to determine Iraqi BW threat and intelligence gaps.

DM-1 team travels to Beale AFB, CA to review progress of deployable photo processing/data base preparations.

DIA establishes BDA Cell to provide third-phase BDA assessment.
DIA and CIA establish Iraqi Interagency Biological Warfare Working Group (IIBWWG).

DC-1 passes tasking to CENTCOM asking them to look for SA-2s in southern Kuwait.

Defense Intelligence College (DIC) hosts a "Conference on the Gulf Crisis" at the request of VP and the JCS. Analysts working in support of DESERT SHIELD attend the in-depth discussions by experts and academicians.

BDA 24-hour and 12-hour message initiated.

VP establishes net assessment and BDA teams.

DAT-6 tasks assets for information on Scud strikes against Israel.

DC-1 receives report from CENTCOM JRC that reconnaissance over Western Iraq located 10 Scud launchers. All 10 launchers are reported destroyed.
 

CENTCOM JIC begins daily production of first-phase BDA reporting via e-mail. OICC downloads reporting and passes to various cells for analysis/comparison.

DAT-6 tasks assets to acquire BDA data on targets in Kuwait through the use of sources in the Kuwaiti resistance.

DIA establishes a POW/MIA Operations Center to track Coalition POW/MIAs and captured journalists, and to provide information to US rescue forces.

DIA publishes first glossy BDA daily publication.

DC-1 receives request from JRC Forward to clarify the architecture and connectivity between theater surveillance systems.

DIA expands BDA Cell. ITF I&W Cell displaces Counternarcotics Facility.

DIA dedicates additional assets to the Scud problem as Iraqi Scud attacks on Israel continue.

DSD produces IDB II five-country data base for CENTCOM.

DC-1 reports that the President and CJCS have ordered airborne reconnaissance platform JSTARS to perform dedicated reconnaissance on Scud launch areas in western Iraq.

DI-4 arranges weekly briefing for attaches in Washington, DC.

DAT disseminates guidelines to worldwide collectors on forwarding IIRs and HUMINT operational traffic as a result of JCS-imposed restrictions on routine messages.

DIA sends requirement through DC-1 to CENTCOM for coverage over western Iraq.

DIA receives details from the Kuwaiti military resistance on the facilities that control the oil flow to the sea terminals (after Iraq released millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf). Using this information, two F-111 aircraft attack the Al Ahmadi oil manifolds the next day and stop the flow of oil into the Gulf.

DAT-6 tasks collectors to acquire information on all underground facilities in Iraq, plus information on Iran's role in the conflict given the Iraqi air force flights to Iran.

CENTCOM requests an SA-2 OB from DC-1.

DIA begins baseline MSS production every night.

DAT-6 tasks regional assets to report on the extent of the Persian Gulf oil spill.

DIA elements visit Turkey.

DC-1 replies to CENTCOM request for information about MTI (moving target indicator) and JSTARS.

DSD-3 prepares IDB-II software and data base for CENTCOM (replaced 11 January copy due to problems with updates.

DI-1 establishes Monday and Friday J2 briefs for senior OSD principals.

DC-1 keeps JCS/JRC informed of SNAPSHOT platform via verbal mission assessment briefing.

BDA footage begins to arrive daily from the Joint Camera Shop at the Pentagon. In-house distribution made for DB-6 and BDA Cells.

DIA forwards studies on breaching the Iraqi defensive barriers in southern Kuwait to CENTCOM.

DIA establishes a formal C3 Cell in the DoDJIC with CIA participation in an effort to improve targeting of Iraqi C3.

DAT-6 tasks regional assets to report the attitudes of their host countries concerning the US bombing of Iraq.

DIA BDA analysts determine that Iraq is dispersing aircraft to historical sites to reduce likelihood of destruction by air attacks.

DIA establishes Multispectral Imagery Fusion Cell to support the Scud Cell in the DoDJIC.

DC-1 responds to JS tasker with information brief on various imagery platforms.

DAT-6 tasks worldwide collectors to provide information on any Iraqi terrorist action against the Coalition forces.

DS produces IDB II data base for CENTCOM to replace corrupted 23 January version.

Historical monuments, like the ancient temple depicted in this DIA Public Affairs drawing, were not targeted despite the placement of military equipment nearby.

DC-1 reports on airborne reconnaissance surge capability for the ground war.

DIA ground forces assessment production begins.

DIA moves MSS production to NMIC.

DIA Document Exploitation (DOCEX) personnel depart for Saudi Arabia.

DAT-6 tasks assets in Western Europe, Middle East, Far East, and the Soviet Union, requesting their views and national interests in the Iraqi post-war period.

Operation DESERT SABRE (G-Day), the Coalition ground campaign begins.

DIA begins production of two MSSs per day.

DIA Director curtails MIB meetings to biweekly.

DIA sends a reserve augmentee who is a trained interrogator and Arab linguist to Turkey to assist the Turkish Government in debriefing Iraqi military defectors.