A stream of additional "signal" intelligence, sent to Langley by the National Security Agency,* provides electronic means of corroborating that a target has been correctly identified.
On 29 January, Halsey, acting on the same intelligence, sent a resupply convoy to Guadalcanal screened by a cruiser task force.
It is possible, of course, that the most sensitive intelligence is sent by more secure means, not yet breached by Wikileaks.Even so, the cables are worth a read just for some diplomats' lively turns of phrase.
(Reuters) THE AMERICAS VENEZUELA: CUBAN'S ARREST ORDERED President Hugo Chavez has ordered the arrest of a man who says he is one of 1,500 Cuban intelligence agents sent by Fidel Castro to promote communism in Venezuela but now wants to defect.
Public attention here was focused on the arrival of George J. Tenet, the director of central intelligence, who was sent by President Bush to help re-establish security cooperation between the Israelis and Palestinians and thus bolster the truce.
Andrea Aspinall has been sent by British intelligence to snatch atomic secrets out of German hands.
Many, he said, were presumed to have been sent by Pakistani intelligence officials from across the border.
Mr. Arar was sent by American intelligence officials in October 2002 to Syria, where he was tortured and jailed for a almost a year.
Information Minister Goran Matic said the men were assassins sent by Western intelligence agencies to deliver a "Serbian head" to President Clinton.
Those bombs, which intelligence agencies believed had been sent by the Yemen-based group Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, were intercepted in Britain and Dubai on their way to Chicago.
