In October, when American intelligence was close on the trail of the courier and spy satellites were taking detailed photographs of the house, Bin Laden issued two audio statements urging help for victims of floods in Pakistan.
U.S. and British intelligence are close partners, forming the heart of the world's most powerful surveillance network, Five Eyes, along with Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
Philby, sensing that British intelligence was closing in on him, lapsed into a "miasma of drink and depression".
She faces appalling and occasionally preposterous circumstances with a mixture of innocence and skeptical intelligence that is close to heroic.
Omar Suleiman, the suave intelligence chief, is close to the Americans and has fairly intimate relations with Israel (UPDATE: he has now been named vice-president).
On Iraq and counter-terrorism, we and the Egyptians see largely eye-to-eye; intelligence cooperation is close and effective; and our military-to-military relationship is durable but stuck in a force-on-force mindset.
The estimate of Isis strength by Omani intelligence, which is close to the CIA and MI6 but also to the Iranians, is higher than a CIA one in September of 20,00-31,500 fighters.
A former senior intelligence official who is close to the White House told me that M.B.S. had received a "green light" to remove Hariri.
But four or five of the attackers survived the firefight at the second post and appeared to have made a beeline on foot for the military intelligence building, which is close to the main entrance, according to accounts from military officials.
In an interview with The Times, Manelis, a respected military intelligence officer who is close to the chief of staff and has no previous experience with media, said his job "is to explain how the army is fulfilling the orders it receives from the government, not the government's national policy". But he believes that Israel is achieving its public diplomacy goals.
