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Anintelligence agency is agovernment agency responsible for the collection,analysis, and exploitation of information in support oflaw enforcement,national security,military,public safety, andforeign policy objectives.[1]

Means of information gathering are both overt and covert and may includeespionage,communication interception,cryptanalysis, cooperation with other institutions, and evaluation of public sources. The assembly and propagation of this information is known asintelligence analysis orintelligence assessment.

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Intelligence agencies can provide the following services for their national governments.

There is a distinction between "security intelligence" and "foreign intelligence". Security intelligence pertains to domestic threats, includingterrorism and espionage. Foreign intelligence involves information collection relating to the political, or economic activities of foreign states.

Some agencies have been involved inassassination,arms trafficking,coups d'état, and the placement of misinformationpropaganda and othercovert andclandestine operations to support their own or their governments' interests.

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References

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  1. ^Szoldra, Paul (May 11, 2013)."These 17 Agencies Make Up The Most Sophisticated Spy Network In The World".Business Insider.

Further reading

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Books

  • Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence, and Security, hrg. von K. Lee Lerner and Brenda Wilmoth Lerner, 3 Bände, Detroit [u.a.]: Gale [u.a.], 2004
  • Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones,Cloak and Dollar: A History of American Secret Intelligence, Yale University Press, 2002
  • Richard C. S. Trahair,Encyclopedia of Cold War Espionage, Spies, and Secret Operations, Westport, Conn. [u.a.] : Greenwood Press, 2004
  • Amy B. Zegart,Flawed by Design: The Evolution of the CIA, JCS, and NSC, Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press, 1999

Journals

  • The Journal of Intelligence History

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