ELINT

ELINT – Most novelists get it wrong. Too often someone refers to a message picked up by an ELINT intercept. They should say either COMINT or SIGINT.

ELINT is an acronym for Electronic Intelligence, that is, non-communications intelligence derived from collection, processing, and analysis of radar and various guidance control systems.

Intelligence derived from the collection of spoken or written communications is called COMINT or Communications Intelligence. SIGINT, or Signals Intelligence, is i...