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Article: Intelligence
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- Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence, andSecurity
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Intelligence
Intelligence is information concerning a foreign entity, usually (although not always) an adversary, as well as agencies concerned with collection of such information. It is intimately tied with the intelligence cycle, a process whereby raw information is acquired, converted into intelligence, and disseminated to the appropriate consumers.
The intelligence cycle, as defined in the United States Senate hearings of the Church Committee during the mid-1970s, consists of four or five steps. In the first of these, called either
planning, direction,
or
planning and direction,
intelligence requirements are determined, a plan for the collection is developed, and agencies are ...