The President should task the intelligence community to collect and analyze information that can be used to educate and influence the international community about the Caracas regime, and to promote operational objectives inside Venezuela.

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The history of such efforts was replete with examples of the Chinese using these contacts as opportunities to collect intelligence against our forces, while systematically withholding information about their military's capabilities, prompting many in the Pentagon and Congress to oppose the resumption of these exchanges.

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The U.S. military has become heavily dependent on orbital systems and their supporting ground networks to connect far-flung forces, collect vital intelligence, detect missile launches, provide precise navigation information, and monitor weather conditions.

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Prosecutors said the accused had posed as ordinary citizens, some living together as couples for years, and were ordered by Russia's External Intelligence Service (SVR) to infiltrate policy-making circles and collect information.

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Pentagon officials said they would not discuss how the statistics were derived because of security concerns that such information could give clues to how U.S. intelligence officers collect their data.

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In Congress, sources said that officials also are considering the creation of a new "terrorism czar" to streamline the flow of intelligence information across agencies, such as the FBI and the CIA, that collect it.

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