Beria also was responsible for the Soviet Union's nascent nuclear weapons program and oversaw intelligence operations directed at the U.S. and British atomic bomb projects.
In the Middle East, British counter-intelligence was directed at preserving the loyalty of the Indian sepoy in the face of Turkish propaganda and the concept of The Caliph's Jihad, while a particularly significant effort was directed at intercepting the Kabul Mission.
And finally: "The truth is," Steven Poole writes in You Aren't What You Eat (Union Books), "that the intelligence can be directed at anything at all.
The creative emotion makes one unstable and throws one out of the habitual mode of intelligence, which is directed at needs.
The pictured abuses, unacceptable even in wartime, were not part of authorized interrogations nor were they even directed at intelligence targets.
While much of the criticism in the United States has been directed at intelligence provided by exile and dissident leaders, the Butler report did not find evidence that such sources had skewed British intelligence.
Law enforcers, however, can use evidence contained in a federated criminal intelligence database to derive actionable intelligence [26] on targeted individuals directed at providing law enforcement responses that disrupt the criminal network's operations.
Some of the harshest criticism was directed at the intelligence services, which did not have a representative at the meeting.
In the speech, which garnered much attention for other comments directed at recent intelligence leaks, he said: "Knowing of an individual does not equate to knowing everything about them.
Much of the implicit criticism was directed at counter-intelligence analysts at headquarters in the US, rather than those gathering information on the ground abroad.
