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U.S. Intelligence's Big Analysis Outreach

Via UPI.

U.S. intelligence agencies are conducting an unprecedented outreach effort to outside experts.

The outreach also includes using blogs and wikis to improve their analysis.

The magazine U.S. News and World Report said that a series of outreach projects also included "millions of dollars in contracts, fellowships, (and) conferences ... directed at scholars and other outside experts."

The effort is laid out in a document produced by the U.S. Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte. The document, dubbed "A Strategy for Analytic Outreach," calls for a major effort at building 'communities of interest' with outside experts and revamping security regulations to allow far greater contact with the outside world by intelligence analysts, the magazine reported Sunday.

posted by Fergie @ 10/30/2006 09:23:00 AM