The Influence Of Foreign Intelligence On The United States

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Foreign Intelligence causes the United States of America to understand what the other countries are doing. Whether they are enemy countries or countries that help us with all of our resources and are friendly countries. The United States gains intelligence for our army so that we know where the enemies are in that area and where all of the bad things are going on. The United States of America also need to gain intelligence on other countries for good reasons such as, knowing where to buy and where to trade the best resources for our country. Foreign Intelligence could occur in other other countries against the United States. Foreign people or foreign armies are also gaining intelligence on the United States and using that to build and create their own things and devices. There have been many times in the United States where people have failed and people have been successful with intelligence. A prime example of a failure would be the attack of Pearl Harbor and also 9/11. A prime example of being successful would be the killing of terrorists such as; Osama Bin Laden. Intelligence will fail and intelligence will succeed. Our government will have to make the right decisions at the right time. …show more content…
Government officials either get the things right that are needed to be answered or either they get them wrong and they fail. Prime Examples of failure would be Pearl Harbour and Terrorists. How was Pearl Harbour a failure? Well, the attack on Pearl Harbour all started with a secret message or a so called “diplomatic cipher” Page

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