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Rebuilding Iraqi SIGINT Capabilities: An Example of Inter-Agency Cooperation

SUMMARY

Several US intelligence agencies helped build up the Iraqi National Intelligence Service. When the project started in early 2004, the Iraq SIGINT Element (ISE) was an "unstable" organization of 10 employees which lacked the most basic skills, including how to request, validate and disseminate intelligence.

DOCUMENT’S DATE

Nov 17, 2006

PUBLICLY AVAILABLE

May 29, 2019