United States Intelligence Community

leadership of the United States prior to the Invasion seen in 2003. The United States had questioned for a time, to what extent Saddam Hussein maintained WMD’s as well as the possible ability to create this WMD’s under the scrutiny of the UN inspectors and the world watching. What came after was a large intelligence failure in determining the WMD program as well as being flooded with false intelligence from a principle source that was not vetted correctly by the Western Intelligence Agencies…

had during its 38 years of existence, is the subject of John C. McWilliams’ article Covert Connections: The FBN, the OSS, and the CIA. In this piece McWilliams claims that the FBN, its contributions to the intelligence community, and the connections between narcotics enforcement and intelligence…

these systems was to ensure intelligence was being shared. This became a stark change from the past where invisible barriers prevented the collective effort of agencies, not only at the state level, but at the federal level, working towards the same objective. Sometimes this same objective included chasing after the same suspect at the local or federal level. City, county and state agencies were always hindered by the fact of not being able to crosstalk or share intelligence with each other…

element that may want intelligence. This is also another key issue, being able to take the fight to the enemy is one that would be necessary to know what the enemy knows. Also in the Counterintelligence Ten Commandments, the agency that controls the street controls the area, meaning the…

The Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) mission is complimentary and in concordance with DHS in National Security. The CIA works with Homeland security to ensure there are no gaps in security, by coordinating and evaluating the intelligence gathered. They advise the National Security Council in matters related to National Security and make recommendations to the NSC of intelligence activities. The CIA responds to national intelligence request by DHS in addition to other standing orders they…

Outlook: American intelligence has grown significantly in the last 20 years. As technology keeps evolving, so will the Intelligence community (IC). With this technology advancement will come vulnerabilities, these vulnerabilities will be exposed and the IC will become stronger and wiser from experience. Computers is a significant vulnerability to the country want will be the place where the next significate war will be fought, because computer are such a vital part of daily life. Computers…

To better understand the significance of intelligence provided by Oleg Penkovsky during the Cuban missile crisis, it is of utmost important to examine the climate of the intelligence community in the United States leading up to the crisis. On September 19th, 1962, about a month before the start of the Cuban Missile Crisis, a Special National Intelligence Estimate (SNIE) on “The military Buildup in Cuba” considered the possibility of the Soviet’s deployment of medium and intermediate-range…

in counter-terrorism caused high-profiled arguments between the US and EU over post-9/11 security strategies (Aldrich, 122; Kruglanski et al., 100). Counter-terrorism strategies for both the United States and European Union are different as EU’s counter-terrorism is a domestic question and many European states do not want to join the ‘war on terror’ and the EU lacks a coherent foreign policy dimension (Aldrich, 122). European Council after 9/11 developed various plans and agreements such as a…

Reliable intelligence is one of the keys to deter and mitigate future terrorist attacks, by implementing the intelligence cycle which are compose by decision, collection, processing, analysis, publication of intelligence, and feedback. These steps are very effective way to validate intelligence and where came from. The individuals who are in charge of the intelligence departments are the ones who designated what type of intelligence their subordinates will be researching. These individuals play…

The Central Intelligence Agency also known as the CIA was created by created by President Franklin D Roosevelt as an addition to the OSS or Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in 1942. William J. Donovan was elected by President Roosevelt to be the lead analyst of the new intelligence agency. Soon after World War two ended the OSS was abolished leaving the CIA as the main intelligence insight for the United States. After the death of Franklin D Roosevelt, Vice President Truman took office on…