Intelligence Collection Management is the process of managing and organizing the collection of intelligence information from various sources. The collection department of an intelligence organization may attempt basic validation of that which it collects, but is not intended to analyze its significance. It is a blurry line between validation and true analysis; this is often an argument in the U.S. intelligence community, where National Security Agency may, in the opinion of Central Intelligence Agency or Defense Intelligence Agency, try to interpret the information when such interpretation is the job of another agency.
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