Journal: CSIS on IAEA and NATO Intelligence

Shining a Brighter Light on Dark Places: Improving the IAEA’s Use of Intelligence through Cooperation with NATO By Michael Hertzberg Center for Strategic & International Studies Dec 21, 2010 One possible improvement to the IAEA’s monitoring and verification regime would be enhancing the IAEA’s use of intelligence by formalizing cooperation with a multilateral security organization …

NIGHTWATCH EXTRACT: STRATFOR Does Not Understand Intelligence

NIGHTWATCH For the record. STRATFOR published an essay on intelligence that posited that the tension in the intelligence world is between collectors and others and analysts. That mischaracterizes of the source of the tension and shows very limited insight. At the national level, among national agencies, there is an overwhelming volume of information sharing on …

Reference: CRS 2010 Intelligence Issues for Congress

Tip of the Hat to Gary Price at LinkedIn. Phi Beta Iota: This is of passing interest as an overview of what people are thinking about at the shallowest possible level in relation to the Wall Street/Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex (MICC). STRIKE ONE: The document still does not understand that overt Human Intelligence (HUMINT) is 90% of …

Journal: Intelligence Out of Control

IMHO, ill-advised. Washington Times November 11, 2010 Pg. 10 Inside The Ring By Bill Gertz Financial intel killed The Pentagon’s intelligence directorate is killing off one of its most strategically important mission areas: monitoring efforts by foreign governments to buy U.S. firms and technology, such as the multiple efforts by China’s military-linked equipment company Huawei …

NIGHTWATCH Extract: Multinational Intelligence Center in Northern Africa

Sahelian Africa: The intelligence chiefs of Algeria, Mauritania, Niger and Mali will set up a joint intelligence center in Algiers, Algeria’s El Watan newspaper reported on 28 September. The center’s purpose is to collect information on terrorism in the region and make the data available to the Sahel’s military operational center based in Tamanrasset. The …