The Free Syrian Army's general staff has created its own intelligence branch to weed out spies and to recruit them within the government.
In 2006, the United States Treasury Department, citing the intelligence branch's "destabilizing" influence in Lebanon, froze General Ikhtiar's assets, saying he maintained "active informant networks" and carried out "intelligence operations" in Lebanon.
Superintendent David Hartshorn, a senior officer from the Metropolitan police public order branch, told the Guardian the database in question was CrimInt, a general intelligence system used to catalogue details about criminal activity.
After pulling some strings with generals who knew his father, he was assigned to the Office of Strategic Services, the fledgling military intelligence branch.
General Ikhtiar served from 2001 to 2005 as the director of Syria's General Intelligence Directorate, the agency responsible, along with the political intelligence branch, for monitoring dissidents.
Dr. Assad has relied on Ali Aslan, the chief of staff who replaced the ousted General Shehabi; his brother-in-law Asef Showkat, who holds an important post that deals with promotions in the military intelligence branch; and Suleiman Bahgat, head of the domestic intelligence services.
"They measure general intelligence".
Also general intelligence.
Then I was taken to the air intelligence branch.
The bodies were grouped by branch – for example, there was one place for Branch 215 of military intelligence and another for the aerial intelligence branch.
Historically, many psychologists have viewed general intelligence as separate from social and emotional intelligence, Barbey said.
