The phrase "a number of intelligence" is not correct in standard English usage.
It is typically used to refer to multiple instances or types of intelligence, but the phrase itself is awkward and unclear.
Example: "A number of intelligence assessments were conducted to evaluate the situation."
Alternatives: "various types of intelligence" or "multiple forms of intelligence".
In interviews over the past two weeks, a number of intelligence officials have raised questions about Osama bin Laden's capabilities.
I understand that a number of intelligence agents and politicians will also speak in an attempt to get Binyam home.
) While the torture of Abu Zubaydah produced a number of intelligence reports, there's no evidence that these brutal means were necessary to obtain them.
A number of intelligence analysts said they now believed that he had escaped the two air strikes, on March 20 and April 7.
There were reports in 2003 that foreign intelligence agencies had planted listening devices in the Justus Lipsius Building, and a number of intelligence officers are thought to be among the thousands of diplomats working in Brussels.
I recently asked a number of intelligence analysts working the forums whether any of the hundreds of threats and wishful plots they had tracked on jihadist forums had ever been realized in an actual terrorist attack.
Mr. Shedd was highly praised on Friday by a number of former intelligence officials.
The Ukrainian government has arrested a number of Russian intelligence agents in Ukraine, many of them armed".
A member of the provincial council was also killed, along with a number of Afghan intelligence agents and lower-level government officials.
But the sentiment is particularly potent in the case of a country like Germany, which has been critical for a number of American intelligence operations.
It has also dismayed a number of American intelligence officers who worked with the Hmong against the army of North Vietnam in the 1960s and 70s.
