In Washington, a spokesman for the director of national intelligence wrote in an e-mail, "The United States government will respond appropriately to the European Union through our diplomatic channels," as well as through a forum for American and European intelligence specialists that the United States proposed creating several weeks ago.
"He died in the service of his country and the gratitude of his comrades is deep and lasting," U.S. Army Col. Gary L. Parrish, assistant chief of staff of intelligence, wrote in a letter to Drobnick's family after his death.
"Despite the increased sugar-free gum market and gum infused with vitamins, the overall gum sale growing at negligible growth rate," Mordor Intelligence wrote in a recent report, noting that mint demand, however, recorded a double-digit growth rate over the past five years.
The Italian anti-Mafia intelligence wrote in a report that "the new establishment has a devastating impact on any possible counter-operation, which is made particularly difficult by the unpredictability of their actions which seem to follow no rationality".
"Acts of piracy and armed robbery are only one facet of the spectrum of maritime insecurity; boundaries between various crimes are often blurred," Dirk Steffen, maritime security director of Denmark-based Risk Intelligence, wrote in an essay for the nonprofit United States Naval Institute.
The CIA also provides engaging and informed critiques of recent memoirs in its in-house journal, Studies in Intelligence, written by the heir to Pforzheimer's bibliographic throne, Hayden Peake.
In an intelligence assessment written in August but first disclosed by Foreign Policy last week, the FBI designated a new group of domestic terrorists: "Black Identity Extremists," or BIEs.
They were spelled out in a letter from Sir Mark Allen, then head of MI6 counter-terrorism operations, to Moussa Koussa, Gaddafi's intelligence chief, written in March 2004.
An intelligence report dating to October 1990, just after Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, reflected American concern that Iraq might have mastered the production of "dusty VX," despite the fact that there was "no evidence" it had done so, according to an intelligence report written in October 1990.
