Incidental Intelligence (Linguistic Rivalry Division): At 131 W. 45th St., there's a shop with a notice in its window reading "Je parle Fracais".
By T. Holdsworth and John McCarten The New Yorker, November 2 , 1957P. 32 Incidental Intelligence (Linguistic Rivalry Division): At 131 W. 45th St., there's a shop with a notice in its window reading "Je parle Fracais".
Following the recommendations of the 9/11 commission, Congress created the National Counterterrorism Center to unify the government's data collection and ordered the welter of intelligence agencies to put aside their rivalries and share what they know and suspect.
As the report points out, informants continue to settle their personal rivalries by feeding false intelligence to international forces, who then conduct operations that result in wrongful detentions, or even death.
Above all, rivalries among and within the intelligence services meant that information was divided, hoarded, blocked, scattered.
"The Special Handling/Gang Detail is responsible for: Gathering intelligence on gang shot-callers representatives, gang rivalries in and out of custody, narcotic trafficking within the jail system, [and] developing confidential informants".
He also indicated that there had been periods of intense rivalry between the French and American intelligence systems.
A witness said the shootout involved about two dozen agents drawn into a rivalry between the head of the intelligence service, Maj.
The director of national intelligence is supposed to provide strategic direction and tame rivalries among the 16 intelligence agencies.
As in the days of the OSS, there were problems of distrust and rivalry between the new civilian agencies and the military intelligence services and the FBI.
