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Encyclopedia > Intelligence Officers

Intelligence Officers are staff that specialise in the gathering, fusion and analysis of information and intelligence sources in order to provide advise to the Government or organisation that they work for. Intelligence has two different common meanings : Intelligence (trait) Animal intelligence Artificial intelligence Intelligence (information gathering) Business intelligence Military espionage This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...


Int or Intel Officers can be both Public Civil or Military, or even private sector.


Within the USA Intelligence Officers work at:


NSA - National Security Agency - US Public Civil CIA - Central Intelligence Agency - US Public Civil DIA - Defence Intelligence Agency - US Military US Navy US Army USAF USMC NSA can stand for: National Security Agency of the USA The British Librarys National Sound Archive This page concerning a three-letter acronym or abbreviation is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... The CIA Seal The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is one of the American foreign intelligence agencies, responsible for obtaining and analyzing information about foreign governments, corporations, and individuals, and reporting such information to the various branches of the U.S. Government. ... DIA may stand for: Defense Intelligence Agency Denver International Airport Department of Internal Affairs (New Zealand) Detroit Institute of Arts This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... The United States Navy (USN) is the branch of the United States armed forces responsible for naval operations. ... The Army is the branch of the United States armed forces which has primary responsibility for land-based military operations. ... Seal of the Air Force. ... United States Marine Corps Emblem The United States Marine Corps (USMC) is the second smallest of the five branches of the United States armed forces, with 170,000 active and 40,000 reserve Marines as of 2002. ...


Within the UK the British Government has various civil agencies: GCHQ Government Communications Headquarters at Cheltenham (A equivilent to the US NSA). SIS Secret Intelligence Service (aka MI6) and Defence Intelligence Service (Part of the Ministry of Defence MOD). The UK Military has the Intelligence Corps in the British Army and the RAF Intelligence Branch in the Royal Air Force. The United Kingdom is a unitary state and a democratic constitutional monarchy. ... The Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) (previously named the Government Code and Cipher School (GC&CS)) is the main British intelligence service providing signals intelligence (SIGINT). ... The centre of Cheltenham. ... The Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), more commonly known as MI6 (originally Military Intelligence Section 6), or the Secret Service, is the United Kingdom external security agency. ... The Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), more commonly known as MI6 (originally Military Intelligence Section 6), or the Secret Service, is the United Kingdom external security agency. ... This articles deals with the British ministry, see defence minister for other countries. ... Intelligence Corps camp flag The Intelligence Corps (often called Int Corps) is one of the corps of the British Army, responsible for gathering, analysing and disseminating military intelligence and also for counter-intelligence and security. ... A nations army is its military, or more specifically, all of its land forces. ... The Royal Air Force (often abbreviated to RAF) is the air force branch of the UK Armed Forces. ...


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Intelligence (information gathering) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (316 words)
Intelligence is the process and the result of gathering information and analyzing it to answer questions or obtain advance warnings needed to plan for the future.
Intelligence findings or "product" and the sources and methods used to obtain them (tradecraft) are often highly classified and sometimes compartmentalized, and intelligence officers need top level security clearance.
Intelligence as used here, when done properly, serves a function for organizations similar to that which intelligence (trait) serves for individual humans and animals.
Military intelligence - definition of Military intelligence in Encyclopedia (631 words)
Officers and enlisted men assigned to military intelligence are selected for their analytical abilities and the ability to keep secrets.
For this reason, a good intelligence officer is often quite annoying to a commander, insistently questioning the commander about the commander's intentions and desires with regard to tactics and strategy.
The U.S. military refers to the military intelligence officer as the J-2, G-2 or S-2, depending on whether his or her assigment is with a joint service staff, a general officer's staff, or the staff of a unit commanded by an officer who ranks below general.
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