The Intelligence Process
Threats Facing the United States
The Intelligence Community at Work
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Conversion
of large amounts of data to a form suitable for the production of
finished intelligence; includes translations, decryption, and interpretation
of information stored on film and magnetic media through the use
of highly refined photographic and electronic processes.
A substantial
portion of US intelligence resources is devoted to processing and
exploitation – the synthesis of raw data into a form usable by the
intelligence analyst or other consumers – and to the secure telecommunications
networks that carry these data. Exploiting imagery; decoding messages
and translating broadcasts; reducing telemetry to meaningful measures;
preparing information for computer processing; storage and retrieval;
placing human-source reports into a form and context to make them
more comprehensible – these are all processing , and
all collection agencies in the IC are engaged in it to a significant
degree.
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