LESSON 04 OUTLINE

• Lesson Overview
• Lesson Objectives
• Assignments
• What is Intelligence?
• The Development of US Intelligence
• The US Intelligence Community
• The Intelligence Process-A Macro Look: Who Does What for Whom?
• Collection and the Collection Disciplines
• Analysis
• Summary and Final Tasks

Lesson 04: Intelligence Organizations and Functions (part 1)

The US Intelligence Community

As you read Lowenthal's chapter 3 that discusses "The US Intelligence Community" do some critical thinking and ask yourself:

• As a CIA executive coming from the analysis and production community, what cultural filters does Lowenthal bring to his discussion? What might this chapter look like had a covert operations or geospatial intelligence professional written it?
   
• Is the organization of the US intelligence community the best way to do business, or can you think of alternative approaches?
   
• Geospatial intelligence is concentrated in the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (formerly the National Mapping and Imagery Agency and formerly the Defense Mapping Agency (as its core)). Is this the best way to organize the geospatial intelligence contribution? In a later lesson we will discuss in detail the evolution of the NGA and why it evolved as it did.