By revealing authorship the intelligence authorities have just made it more difficult to do the next intelligence operation.
In many ways, the end result was like undertaking a classic intelligence operation.
He gave the example of a human covert intelligence operation being at risk as being a good proportional reason to keep it secret.
The secretiveness stems from the belief that a populist intelligence operation with virtually no resources, designed to publicize information that powerful institutions do not want public, will have serious adversaries.
Now, as even the New York Times grudgingly noted, this was a legal intelligence collection operation.
Thousands of documents and hundreds of computer disks are being examined by 40 detectives who are working on the Castlereagh case and the alleged IRA intelligence gathering operation at Stormont.
Mr McGimpsey made the comments after Acting Deputy Chief Constable Alan McQuillan said on Monday that the police had broken up a major IRA intelligence gathering operation in Belfast during their investigation.
For now, most scrutiny has fallen on the delicate business of international intelligence co-operation.
Security and intelligence co-operation between America and Israel is as deep as it has ever been.
Alliot-Marie said military and intelligence co-operation between Paris and Washington had been unaffected by the split over Iraq.
The men were arrested by armed officers from the Metropolitan Police's Counter Terrorism Command in a pre-planned, intelligence-led operation.
Two men aged 25 and 23, both foreign nationals, were detained in Kinross as part of an intelligence-led operation.
Officers from the police's Central e-Crime Unit arrested the teenager in what they describe as a "pre-planned intelligence-led operation" on Wednesday.
The Gwent force (population 560, 000) also conducted an intelligence-led operation resulting in 1, 935 tests, with 39 being positive, failed or refused.
The demise of the Arellanos is a result of the greater trust, and therefore closer intelligence co-operation, between American and Mexican officials.
For the next twenty minutes, the mission shifted to an intelligence-gathering operation.
That is in large part thanks to legitimate intelligence co-operation, not torture.
Shadow foreign secretary William Hague said the potential disruption of the intelligence-sharing operation between the UK and the US would have "serious consequences" for Britain's national security.
Miliband told the UK's Channel 4 News Wednesday that intelligence co-operation between nations relied on confidentiality and that there would have been repercussions if the papers had been released.
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It said its operation was intelligence-led, and resulted in 156 tests being positive, failed or refused.
Intelligence officials said the operation had been ordered by the Farc's number two leader, Ivan Marquez, believed to be in Venezuela.
The Central Intelligence Agency ran the operation in conjunction with Idaho National Laboratory, the Israeli government and other U.S. agencies, according to people familiar with the efforts.
Mexican officials put the successes down to better intelligence and co-operation with America, plus a fivefold increase in the size of the federal police force (counting officers seconded from the army).
It will have been what the police describe as "an intelligence-led" operation, meaning they were operating on the basis of information gleaned from an informer or technical surveillance, or a combination of both.
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Though I cannot discuss details in an open setting, as a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, I can tell you that before Operation Iraqi Freedom we had very little human intelligence in Iraq, and, therefore, the INC provided one of the best--and only--avenues for acquiring intelligence on Saddam Hussein's regime.12 I believe the Department of Defense would conclude it was useful.
More than 100 officers took part in the raids following intelligence gathered as part of Operation Amend.
"This was a long-term operation to steal intelligence and information that went under the radar, " he said.
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Indeed, the co-operation of Pakistani intelligence is crucial to employing the drones.
These include closer co-operation between national intelligence agencies, the creation of an EU counter-terrorism chief, and measures that make it easier to trace terrorists who use mobile phones and e-mail.
He said the force also runs an intelligence-led drink-drive operation throughout the year, called Operation Sodium.
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