What's Wrong With Our Intelligence?
Everything, it seems. But a report which says precisely that has a crucial chapter deleted.
Reforming the National Security System
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Reforming the National Security System
Reforming the National Security System
Chapter III, Intelligence Apparatus
- points out the glaring absence of a body at the highest level that could provide direction to the agencies on what intelligence they have to gather and evaluate their work;
- is aghast at the complete lack of coordination, cooperation and sharing of intelligence between different agencies;
- points to the pervasive unhappiness among those whom the agencies serve.Neither do recipients of intelligence information tell their requirements to the agencies.
- declares emphatically that the ability to gather intelligence from people has degraded;
- remarks at the absence of a process that would ensure the agencies are working in the interest of the nation, but doesn't make any specific proposal in this regard;
- urges a proper process to brief the political leadership;
- suggests streamlining and rationalising the sharing of built-up assets for cutting down costs;
- advises ironing out of glitches in sharing technical intelligence outputs;
- provides the texts of formal charters for the RAW, IB and the newly set-up Defence Intelligence Agency. The charters, a token genuflection to accountability, attempt to strike a balance between the role of the organisation and the operational latitude necessary for their activities;
- frowns upon the lack of any quality control at the entry level in the profession; it recommends a better working environment and a policy of rewarding the deserving; and
- wants RAW's Science and Technology division to be strengthened, both in terms of technology and manpower.
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