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Information, whether foreign or defence, political or economic, secret or openly available.
The government organization or organizations (‘intelligence agencies’ or ‘secret intelligence agencies’) which collect, analyse and disseminate this information, which is chiefly about actually or potentially hostile foreign countries. What gives the final assessments of these agencies special authority and their activities a special flavour is that (a) they seek the most sensitive and highly classified information and (b) they seek it by means which are themselves either secret or, as with orbiting satellites, employed without the consent of their targets. This meaning began to emerge in the late nineteenth century. See also agent in place; CIA; Echelon; foreign intelligence; intelligence community; intelligencer; KGB; Secret Intelligence Service. |
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