Intelligence

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Intelligence is a information, usually created by an intelligence agency serving the needs of that nation's policymakers. Intelligence can include summaries of relevant public information sources (newspapers, radio broadcasts) or secret information gathered by covert methods.

The Central Intelligence Agency, America's premier intelligence agency, identifies five categories of intelligence: (1) Current Intelligence looks at day-to-day events,(2) Estimative Intelligence looks at what might be or what might happen. (3) Warning Intelligence gives notice to our policy makers that something urgent might happen that may require their immediate attention. (4) Research Intelligence is an in-depth study of an issue. (5) Scientific and technical intelligence is information on foreign technologies.