United States intelligence agencies

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…

Intelligence is a function that has been employed by nations and governments since the start of their existence. “From the spies sent by Moses to ‘spy out the land of Canaan’ to the advice of Sun Tzu to be subtle and ‘use spies for every kind of business.’” According to Richard Hughbank and Don Githens, “Intelligence is information that is analyzed and converted into a product to support a particular customer. Intelligence is both a process and a product that has played an important role in…

the reputation of the KGB, the most feared, ruthless, and savage “security agency”, as it was technically called. In reality, its main roles are intelligence and counterintelligence. As good as the KGB is at intelligence, its primary role, its capacity for counterintelligence is renowned. Any half-decent intelligence agency knows that an aptitude for counterintelligence is as, if not more important than having intelligence capabilities. Conversely, if a government does not care that the enemy…

Soviet influence, were necessary for not only stopping the spread of communism and preventing a hot war, but central to the beginning of the fall of the Soviet Union. “The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan was viewed in the West — and not just in the United States — as the ultimate proof of aggressive intent.” Afghanistan is not as much a regime change instigated by the CIA, as it is an effort by the CIA to provide aid in removing direct Soviet forces from Afghanistan. The Director of the CIA at…

For many years I’ve learned that we have special agencies such as the FBI and CIA, yet I’ve always referred to them as undercover policeman. Ever since I can remember I knew that the work being done by the FBI and the CIA was something that was considered to be very private that the public was never made aware of. Until this point I had no knowledge that the secret/ KGB/NKVD even existed, and it really excites me. I hope it excites you too. For many, many years various countries have created…

What the NSA does for Americans? The National Security Agency (NSA) is an intelligence organization of the united government, responsible for global monitoring, collection and processing of information and data for foreign intelligence and counterintelligence purposes. One of many duties that the NSA does is to track people and collecting billions of their records everyday. The kind of Data that the NSA collect is Website visits, Internet Searches, Phone calls, Skype calls, Emails, Text messages…

regions through various media outlets. Utter chaos and a complete disregard of the law, at times even by those who are supposed to uphold it. Subsequently there are those who live in these locales who want to escape this turmoil by coming to the United States. Their flight is not just to escape the chaos which surrounds them, it is to flee from the poverty to which they are enslaved. Such contrasting views of countries engulfed in harmonious beauty and discordant…

accessible, and advanced. Because of that increase in popularity among the people, the government realized that it needed to create an intelligence organization focused primarily on global monitoring, collection, and processing of data information for counterintelligence and foreign intelligence purposes. This intelligence organization is called the National Security Agency (NSA) and was established in 1972 by President Truman. The NSA had few issues with the American people, up until 2013, when…

than ever before, the interrogation tactics used by the CIA after September 11, 2001 have been the subject of intense scrutiny. In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on 9/11, the CIA ramped up its efforts to acquire human intelligence information deemed vital to United States national security. The compelling need to acquire information important to national security was not adequately balanced against the need to respect basic human rights. Further, the highly controversial interrogation…

by identifying two scenarios in which civilian casualties were recorded due this imprecision; however, I argue that this is largely underestimated. According to a report by Andrew Blake for the Washington Times, “drone strikes conducted by the United States during a 5-month-long campaign in Afghanistan caused deaths of unintended targets nearly nine out of ten times” (Blake, 2015) In addition to that, Ofek argues that, “when innocents are inadvertently killed, drone strikes can foment public…