MCO 3800.2 - Oversight of Intelligence and Non-Intelligence Sensitive Activities

Scope

MCO 3800.2 establishes policy, procedures, and responsibilities governing the inspection and oversight of U.S. Marine Corps intelligence activities and the reporting requirements regarding those activities. The IGMC Functional Area built on the order carries the wider name Oversight of Intelligence and Non-Intelligence Sensitive Activities.

To establish policy, procedures, and responsibilities governing the inspection and oversight of activities of U.S. Marine Corps intelligence and the reporting requirements regarding those activities. This Order has been substantially revised and should be reviewed in its entirety. MCO 3800.2A.

Quoted from the document's opening section.

Audience

• Commanders certifying annual intelligence oversight training and reporting questionable activities.
• Intelligence sections and units conducting intelligence or sensitive activities subject to oversight inspection.
• IGMC (IGO), the Functional Area sponsor and the recipient of questionable activity reports.
• CGIP planners walking the CoRE checklist for this Functional Area.

Content scope

Repo evidence names the order's subject areas without chapter detail. Inspection and oversight of intelligence activities, and the reporting requirements riding on them.

Operative content

• Commanders certify annual intelligence oversight (IO) training, per the commander oversight matrix row anchored to this order.
• Commanders report questionable activities to IGMC within one business day, per the same row.
• IGMC Functional Area 3800.2, Oversight - Intel/Non-Intel Sensitive Activities, is a CoRE checklist sponsored by IGMC (IGO) with an effective date of 2023-04-05.

Connection to higher policy

Repo evidence names no statute or DoD issuance above this order.

Connection to Marine Corps doctrine and lower policy

• IGMC Functional Area checklist 3800.2, published 2023-04-06 on media.defense.gov. The current inspection instrument for the program.
• MCO 5040.6K. The inspections program order. Functional Area waivers route to IGMC on its Appendix E template.

Status

Current revision MCO 3800.2B, Oversight of Intelligence Activities, signed 2004-04-30 and listed Current on MCPEL. It supersedes MCO 3800.2A and flags a substantial revision in its opening section. Source PDF on file from the 2026-04-28 archive snapshot. One caution. The order predates the 2023 Functional Area checklist by nearly two decades, verify oversight timelines such as the one-business-day report against the current checklist before acting.