An intelligence agent is a government agency responsible for the collection, analysis and exploitation of information to support law enforcement, national security, military and foreign policy objectives.
Means of information gathering are both open and covert and may include espionage, communication tapping, coding, cooperation with other agencies, and evaluation of public sources. This assembly and dissemination of information is known as intelligence analysis or intelligence assessment.
Intelligence services can provide the following services to their national governments.
- Provide early warning of a crisis;
- Serve national and international crisis management by helping to distinguish the intent of current or potential opponents;
- Inform national defense planning and military operations;
- Protect confidential sensitive information, both from their own sources and activities, as well as from other state institutions;
- Be covertly acting in order to influence the outcome of events favoring national interests, or affecting international security; and
- Defense against the efforts of other national intelligence agencies (counter-intelligence).
There is a difference between "security intelligence" and "foreign intelligence". Security intelligence deals with domestic threats (eg, terrorism, espionage). Foreign intelligence involves the collection of information relating to political activities, or the economy of a foreign country.
Several agencies have been involved in killing, arms trafficking, coups, and the placement of misinformation (propaganda) and other covert operations, to support their own interests or their government.
Video Intelligence agency
See also
- List of intelligence services
- List of non-functioning intelligence agents
- List of intelligence gathering disciplines
Maps Intelligence agency
Further reading
Books
- Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence, and Security , hrg. von K. Lee Lerner and Brenda Wilmoth Lerner, 3 BÃÆ'¤nde, Detroit [u.a.] Ã,: Gale [u.a.], 2004
- Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, Cloak and Dollar: A History of American Secret Intelligence , Yale Press University, 2002
- Richard C. S. Trahair, Cold War, Spy, and Secret Operation Encyclopedia , Westport, Conn. [u.a.] Ã,: Greenwood Press, 2004
- Amy B. Zegart, Disabled by Design: The Evolution of the CIA, JCS, and NSC , Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press, 1999
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Journal
- Intelligence History Journal
Reports
- Ruiz, Victor H., 2010. "Taxonomy of Knowledge for Army Intelligence Training: Assessment of the Basic Military Intelligence Course Leaders Course Using Lundvall's Knowledge Taxonomy". Applied Research Project. Texas State University Paper 331. Txstate.edu
References
External links
- Outsourcing Intelligence
- Proposals for the Privacy Protection Guidelines on the Confidential Data Confidential Data and the Data Transboundary Flow in Combating Terrorism and Serious Crimes by Marcel Stuessi
- The Literature of Intelligence: A Material Bibliography, with Essays, Reviews and Comments
- International Intelligence History Association
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