INFORMATION COLLECTION, DIGESTION AND DISSEMINATION

Information goes in this particular line of country: Collection, digestion and dissemination.

There are various reasons why a line gets jammed; the intelligence service is not operating and presenting the item that is digestible to the persons running the situation, so they can just ignore them. Or, it can be so poorly digested that it takes so much time to go through facts which are nobody does anything about it.

Information will deal rapidly. Therefore, the speed with which a digest is gotten to one has a great deal to do with a situation. If there aren’t people assigned to digesting some form getting out something vaguely resembling a distribution of that traffic into traffic and so somebody else can know this data, we are going to lay an egg.

When you haven’t got information you can’t plan intelligently. And the only reason under God’s green earth that you ever get information is so you can plan and so you can act or not act. "Oranges have all of a sudden increased in price in Lower Slobovia," as a piece of intelligence information has nothing whatsoever to do with anything if you have nothing to do with Lower Slobovia and nothing to do with oranges.

This is why information has to be collected, digested and disseminated. The only reason why information is ever handled or exists in any way, shape or form is so that you can plan or operate or do something about it.