Key to success was government commitment, strong coordination between agencies and sufficient time to effect change".
Communication failures also occurred between agencies and up and down lines of command.
The discussions involve fierce competition between agencies and, at times, within agencies, which sometimes have sharply differing views on Guantánamo.
DEALINGS between agencies and advertisers are improving after two years of strained relations, according to an annual survey.
But the efforts to trace terrorist financing have been marred at times by turf wars between agencies and occasional conflicts in mission.
But care must be taken to avoid a situation where the interaction between agencies and the public becomes confrontational and counterproductive, resulting only in increased mistrust and defensiveness.
Others think a disconnect exists between agencies and their clients, with agencies having become overly convinced about digital technology's advantages in reaching audiences.
The EIA suggests that this will require detailed detective work involving intelligence sharing between agencies, and internationally, and the use of forensic techniques.
Up to seven different systems were used to communicate between agencies and information was misinterpreted or reinterpreted incorrectly on numerous occasions.
The same issues keep coming up time and time again in serious case reviews about the importance of effective communication between agencies and the importance of training".
At the conference, staged by the Central Intelligence Agency and George Washington University, Younger said increased cooperation between agencies and improvements in the way governments tackled terror were "doing a great deal to mitigate the threat".
