Mr. Kim maintains such secrecy that analysts often rely on unconfirmed news accounts, secondhand information relayed through recent defectors and occasional intelligence reports to make often conflicting conjectures.
However, one criticism of GPS, and similar programs that lack any learning capability, is that the program's intelligence is entirely secondhand, coming from whatever information the programmer explicitly includes.
Gall said she trusted the source of the information, which came secondhand from a friend "high enough in the intelligence apparatus to know what he was talking about".
But Straw published a secondhand account of Blix's comment, that the intelligence-based section of the dossier "did not exaggerate the facts, nor revert to rhetoric, probably both desirable for its credibility".
Instead, it is providing intelligence and other support for shipments of secondhand light weapons like rifles and grenades into Syria, mainly orchestrated from Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
An sent the North Vietnamese a steady stream of secret military documents and messages written in invisible ink, but it was his typed dispatches, now locked in Vietnam's intelligence archives and known to us only through secondhand reports, which will undoubtedly rank as his chef d'oeuvre.
The strongest values that have real force in art now are talent and intelligence as such, expending themselves in arch charades of secondhand or inchoate meaning, for want of better employment.
Gall acknowledged that the information, which she received secondhand from a friend who ranked high up in Pakistan's intelligence service, couldn't be corroborated.
The movement of the words and the images they create are no longer the secondhand borrowings of youth or apprenticeship but seem to belong to the observing intelligence that conjures up the particular work in hand.
Mr. Cambone has said he was never briefed about that trip by General Miller himself, but received only a secondhand briefing from his own top deputy, Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin, the deputy under secretary of defense for intelligence.
By R. L. Matters and Geoffrey T. Hellman The New Yorker, September 20 , 1952P. 30 Incidental Intelligence: The Department of Commerce has a National Committee on Wood Utilization which has a Subcommittee on Uses for Secondhand Boxes and Odd Pieces of Lumber.
