Is Publicly Funded Intelligence Investigations A Positive Step Forward? Building Bridges?

"Et cognoscetis veritatem et veritas liberabit vos" - And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free...

"Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes" - Beware of Greeks bearing gifts...

"Quaerite et invenietis" - Seek and you shall find...

"In its higher octave, Saturn is the Guardian of the Threshold at the last frontier to the realm of the divine. In this capacity, Saturn is equivalent to Lucifer as the Light Bearer = Prometheus who brought the fire to mankind because he really loved humanity in contrast to god Zeus. In its lowest octave, Saturn is equated with Satan; is the seducer, persisting within the ego and a bar to resolve karmic entanglements" (Communitas Saturni, 2014).

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗖𝘆𝗰𝗹𝗲

The Intelligence Cycle is customarily illustrated as a repeating process consisting of five steps. Planning and direction encompasses the management of the entire effort and involves, in particular, determining collection requirements based on customer requests. Collection refers to the gathering of raw data to meet the collection requirements. These data can be derived from any number and type of open and secret sources. Processing refers to the conversion of raw data into a format analysts can use. Analysis and production describes the process of evaluating data for reliability, validity, and relevance; integrating and analyzing it; and converting the product of this effort into a meaningful whole, which includes assessments of events and implications of the information collected. Finally, the product is disseminated to its intended audience.

https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/books-and-monographs/analytic-culture-in-the-u-s-intelligence-community/chapter_4_systems_model.htm

𝗧𝘆𝗽𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻

Information can be classified into two categories, either qualitative or quantitative and objective or subjective.

Qualitative information is about describing something using language. Quantitativ..