"Timely and accurate information about the activities,
capabilities, plans, and intentions of foreign powers, organizations,
and persons and their agents, is essential to the national security
of the United States. All reasonable and lawful means must be used
to ensure that the United States will receive the best intelligence
available."
Executive Order 12333
By definition, intelligence deals with the unclear,
the unknown, the deliberately hidden. What the enemies of the United
States hope to deny, we work to reveal.
George J. Tenet
Former Director of Central Intelligence
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