Level 2 is marked by intelligence at object level, i.e. on the final product, whereas Level 3 describes various locations for intelligence, i.e. different sub-systems are used at different levels.
"This was a prime example of policy being driven by intelligence, and at the end of the day it was wrong," said a State Department official critical of the D.I.A.'s handling of the Kumchangri case.
The unit, which relied heavily on data-mining techniques, was modeled after those first established by Army intelligence at the Land Information Warfare Assessment Center, now known as the Information Dominance Center, at Fort Belvoir, Va., the official said.
As Vint Cerf, one of the internet's fathers, said in a letter to Congress a few years ago, "By placing intelligence at the edges rather than control in the middle of the network, the Internet has created a platform for innovation".
Pulled from his university in 1984 by Syrian intelligence at the age of 21, Sarraj spent the next 12 years in prison.
Conspiracy theorists concerned with surveillance abuse believe that the New World Order is being implemented by the cult of intelligence at the core of the surveillance-industrial complex through mass surveillance and the use of Social Security numbers, the bar-coding of retail goods with Universal Product Code markings, and, most recently, RFID tagging by microchip implants.
It should certainly be read by Peter Vas, professor of artificial intelligence at the University of Aberdeen.
Park Chung-hee was killed by his own chief of intelligence at the end of an alcohol-fuelled private dinner.
However, that task is made even more complex by those thorny questions of sentience, self-awareness and consciousness, described by Sir Nigel Shadbolt, professor of artificial intelligence at the University of Southampton, as the "Hard Problem".
"However, he is completely unknown by intelligence services, both at the national and local levels," Mr. Molins said.
