Washington has provided overhead surveillance, intelligence and logistics support for the Saudi-led intervention in Yemen, officials said.
The C.I.A.'s analysis, which has been circulated to other agencies for comment, was based on technical intelligence collected by overhead satellites, and on other empirical evidence, such as measurements of the radioactivity of water samples and smoke plumes from factories and power plants.
We were providing not just defense intelligence, but overhead satellite imagery to help him fight the Iranians.
While Israeli planes and boats were attacking the Liberty, the American plane, a Navy EC-121 intelligence-gathering aircraft, was far overhead, and recorded Israeli conversations, Mr. Bamford wrote.
An overhead view adds to the North's current intelligence, particularly in high-security areas, of which human sources on the ground may have only limited knowledge.
The intelligence community had produced a satellite capable of legal overhead reconnaissance.
Israel has killed dozens of wanted militants in surgical strikes throughout the operation, the result, officials say, of intelligence gathered from its collection of high-flying drones overhead and a network of informants.
Far overhead, a remotely guided drone beamed images of the terrain to an intelligence center in Tucson.
And who knows when you'll have to sift through August 2007's overhead footage of Baghdad for heat signatures in order to confirm some other intelligence?
Such streamlining of and consolidation in the intelligence community would enable many redundancies to be reduced or eliminated, thus eliminating much duplication and bureaucratic overhead.
Overhead began as a US operation but has operated for decades as a partnership with GCHQ and, more recently, Australian intelligence.
