The Intelligence Process

Intelligence can be defined as "knowledge and foreknowledge of the world around us ...that helps consumers to consider alternative options and outcomes" [A Consumer's Guide to Intelligence (Washington D.C. : Central Intelligence Agency, 1994) p. vii]

With the emerging "knowledge work", the collected information, from the disparate nature of the Web's sources (= global computer information network) and the personal one, will be transformed into knowledge, through an intelligent interpretation process.

Actually the push / pull technologies and the "personalize" approach involving intelligent agent technology can seek out information that the user is interested in based on few keywords or on context, respectively. Nevertheless, no product exists actually able to convert information into knowledge. Infact this process is composed of intuition, talent, imagination and a system of logic which allows these things to make sense of all collected information. [ Lynch, M (1997) "No more push-me pull-you" in: Computer Weekly - July 17, 30; "The Internet" edited by G. Young (1998), page 26].

The union of the "explicit and tacit knowledge" [as defined by Borghoff, U.M. and Pareschi, M. in the Introduction to "Information technology for knowledge management" (Borghoff and Pareschi, eds.), Springer, 1998] will permit to package documents (in aggregated /disaggregated forms) tailored exactly to the customer's needs for its critical and complex decision. Considering the rapid evolution of each business in the today's society, it is imperative to use them as soon as possible.

reliable sources of data . "The goal is to make data collection as objective and comprehensive as possible and then develop effective and efficient methods of extracting what the clients need" [Dale J. Long, CHIPS, XXI (IV), 44 - 47 (2003)].

Technology Intelligence forewarns about scientific and technical developments that will adversely affect the shelf-life of current technologies. It alerts of new technical opportunities.

Technology Intelligence and Competitor Intelligence together will contribute to building Business Intelligence , that is the radar, signal processor, communicator network that that alerts senior managers to events that will impact business strategies, plans and tactics

"Knowledge management in global war games" by Gia Harrigan, Nancy Jenkins, Melanie Winters, LCDR Sam Mohs, USN and O.E. (Bud) Hay on: CHIPS magazine - Fall 2001, 32 - 33 (For more information on War Gaming go to the Naval War College Web site at www.nwc.navy.mil/wgd/

"Information literacy toolkit for the knowledge world" - Department of the Navy U.S.A. (toolkit on CD-ROM)

How to Identify Misinformation - US Department of Atate http://usinfo.state.gov/media/Archive/2005/Jul/27-595713.html - How can a journalist or a news consumer tell if a story is true or false? There are no exact rules, but the following clues can help indicate if a story or allegation is true.

"Toward a theory of intelligence" (2006) RAND - National Security Research Division

"College courses on the CIA and/or intelligence were non-existent when I was an undergraduate back in the 1950's, and the same was true when I went to graduate school in the 1970's. Today, however, courses on the CIA and intelligence abound in this country and, to a lesser extent, abroad. Since most of us in today's professorate never took courses on intelligence as students, there is some question of where to start. That's the subject of this paper"

SECURITY AND INTELLIGENCE ORGANIZATIONS
ARGENTINA	Gendarmería Nacional Argentina
ARGENTINA	Argentine National Gendarmerie (english)
AUSTRALIA ASIS	Australian Secret Intelligence Service
AUSTRALIA ASIO	Australian Security and Intelligence Organization
AUSTRALIA DIO	Australian Defense Intelligence Organization
AUSTRALIA DSD	Australian Defence Signal Directorate
AUSTRALIA DIGO	Australian Defence Imagery and Geospatial Organization
AUSTRALIA ONA	Office of National Assessments
AUSTRALIA IGIS	The Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security
AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL SECURITY	Australian National Security
AUSTRALIA PARLIAMENTARY JOINT COMMITTEE	Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security
BELGIUM	Federal intelligence and security agency
BELGIUM	Belgian Military Intelligence and Security Service
BELGIUM	Permanent Committee for the Control of Intelligence Services
BRAZIL ABIN	Brazilian National Intelligence Agency (Agencia Brasileira de Inteligencia)
BRITISH M15	British Security Service
BRITISH M16	Secret Intelligence Service or (MI6)
BRITISH DIA	Defense Intelligence Service ( DIA)
BRITISH DGA	Defense Geospatial Intelligence (DGA)
BRITISH GCHQ	Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ)
BRITISH	Intelligence and Security Committee
BRITISH	Intelligence Services Commissioner
BRITISH	Security and Intelligence Co-ordinator
BRITISH	Office of Surveillance Commissioners http://www.surveillancecommissioners.gov.u k/
BULGARIA NRS	National Intelligence Service (Nacionalna Razuznavatelna Sluzhba)
CANADA CSIS	Canadian Security Intelligence Service
CANADA CSE	Communication Security Establishment (CSE)
CANADA	Office of the Commissioner, Communications Security Establishment
CANADA	Inspector General, Canadian Security Intelligence Service
CANADA SIRC	Security Intelligence Review Committee
CANADA RCMP	Royal Canadian Mounted Police
COLOMBIA DAS	Departamento Administrativo de Seguridad
COLOMBIA	School of Intelligence and Counterintelligence Escuela de Inteligencia y Contrainteligencia
COREA DEL SUD NIS	National Intelligence Service
CZECH REPUBLIC	Military Intelligence (Vojenské zpravodajství, VZ)
CZECH REPUBLIC	Czech foreign intelligence service Office for Foreign Relations and Information (Úrad pro zahranicní styky a informace, ÚZSI)
CZECH REPUBLIC	Security Information Service (Bezpecnostní informacní sluzba, BIS)
DENMARK PET	Security Intelligence Service (Politiets Efterretningstjeneste, PET)
DENMARK DDIS	Danish Defence Intelligence Service (DDIS)
ESTONIA KAPO	Kaitsepolitseiamet
FINLAND SUPO	Security Police (Suojelupoliisi, SUPO)
FRANCE DGSE	D irection Generale de la Securite Exterieure
GERMANY BFV	Bundesamt fur Verfassungsschutz
GERMANY BND	Bundesnachrichtendienst
GREECE NIS	National Inteligence Service (NIS)
HUNGARY IH	Information Agency (Információs Hivatal, IH)
HUNGARY NBH	National Security Office (Nemzetbiztonsági Hivatal, NBH)
IRELAND AGS	An Garda Siochana
ICELAND IPO	Iceland Police
IRAN VEVAK	http://www.fas.org/irp/world/iran/vevak/ http://www.globalsecurity.org/intell/world/ir an/vevak.htm
ISRAEL MOSSAD	Hamossad Hamerkazi Lemodi'in Vetafkidim Meyuhadim
ISRAEL	Shin- Bet (Shabak)- Israeli Security Agency http://www.shabak.gov.il/mod/
ISRAEL	Aman - Israeli Military Intelligence
ITALY	Cesis
ITALY	Intelligence and Democratic Security Service (Servizio per le Informazioni e la Sicurezza Democratica, SISDE)
JAPAN NPA	National Police Agency
JORDAN GID	J ordanian General Intelligence Directorate
LITHUANIA VSD	Satvermes Aizsardzibas Birjos
MEXICO CISEN	C entro de Investigacin y Seguridad Nacional
NETHERLANDS AIVD	Algemene Inlichtingen en VeiligheidsDienst AIVD
NETHERLANDS MIVD	Military Intelligence and Security Service (MVID) - Militaire Inlichtingen- en Veiligheidsdienst (MIVD)
NEW ZEALAND SIS	Security Intelligence Service (SIS)
NEW ZEALAND GCSB	Government Communications Security (GCSB)
NEW ZEALAND EAB	External Assessments Bureau (EAB)
NEW ZEALAND DDIS	The Directorate of Defence Intelligence and Security (DDIS) DDIS
NEW ZEALAND JGSF	Joint Geospatial Support Facility (JGSF)
NEW ZEALAND JGSF	JGSF's Role
NEW ZEALAND ODESC	Domestic and External Security Group (ODESC)
NEW ZEALAND	Security in the Government Sector
NEW ZEALAND	Securing our Nation's Security - How New Zealand manages its security and intelligence agencies This is still probably the best piece of Official literature on the New Zealand Intelligence Community
NORWAY PST	Polietiets Sikkerhetstjeneste
NORWAY	Norwegian Intelligence Service(NIS) Foreign Intelligence Service
NUOVA ZELANDA NZSIS	New Zealand Secret Intelligence Service
POLAND ABW	Agencja Bezpieczenstwa Wewnetrznego
POLAND	Foreign Intelligence Agency (Agencja Wywiadu, AW)
PORTUGAL SIS	Servicio de Informacioes de Segurana
ROMANIA SIE	Serviciul de Informatii Externe
ROMANIA SRI	Romanian Intelligence Service
RUSSIA FSB	Federal'naya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti
RUSSIA SVR	Sluzhba Vheshney Razvedki
SERBIA	Security Information Agency (Bezbednosno-informativna agencija, BIA)
SLOVAKIA SIS	Slovenska Informacni Sluzjba
SLOVENIA	Slovene Intelligence and Security Agency (Slovenska obvescevalno-varnostna agencija, SOVA)
SOUTH AFRICA, Republic of	Ministry for Intelligence Services
SOUTH AFRICA, Republic of	South African Secret Service (SASS)
SOUTH AFRICA, Republic of	National Intelligence Agency
SOUTH AFRICa, Republic of	Government Communication and Information Service
SOUTH KOREA NIS	National Intelligence Service
SPAIN CNI	Centro Nacional de Inteligencia
SWEDEN SAEPO	Saekerhetspolisen
SWITZERLAND	Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz/BfV).
TAIWAN (Republic of China)	National Security Bureau, Republic of China
THAILAND	National Intelligence Agency
TURKEY MIT	Milli Ilstihbarat Teskilati
UKRAINE SSU	Security Service of Ukraine
USA CIA	Central Intelligence Agency
USA DEA	Drug Enforcement Administration
USA DNI	Director of the National Intelligence (DNI)
USA FBI	Federal Bureau of Investigation
USA - House Intelligence	House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
USA Intelligence Community Webpage	Intelligence Community Webpage
USA NGA	National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
USA NSA	National Security Agency
USA NRO	National Reconnaissance Office (NRO)
USA - Senate Intelligence	Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
VENEZUELA (Republica Bolivariana de Venezuela)	Military Intelligence Dirección General de Inteligencia Militar Un portal informativo y de interacción con el Pueblo Venezolano
Reference: Office for Foreign Relations and Information ( http://www.uzsi.cz/index.php@lang=2&show=001002003.html ) Jeremy Compton - [intelforum] - Foreign Intelligence Websites (Official) Compilation (March 24, 2006) Additional links to Intelligence Agencies are available at the following URL addresses: http://sources.ouvertes.free.fr/ http://www.vuw.ac.nz/library/subjectguides/politicalscience/websites/intelligence.aspx