CHAPTER EIGHT

Dissemination

Dissemination refers to the activity of packaging and distributing final products. In the Clandestine Service, intelligence is collected and produced in response to requirements. It is also incumbent on intelligence officers to provide intelligence that has not been asked for, but seems relevant if it’s something that is believed policymakers need to know. The way the Agency does this has application to the world of business.

If a Clandestine officer is in the field, providing a report, the basic reporting criteria are date, location, source, summary, and detail. Intelligence reports reflect that information, but they may be consolidated with other contact reports, analyzed, and refined to produce something more useful ...

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