INTELLIGENCE DATA COLLECTION AND USE

We should have a general data collection unit totally separate from Case Officer functions. Excepting from materials issued to enemy groups or their members or to the press and general press or on TV as oftentimes into known as Overt Data Collection.

It is valuable to an executive all as other tells him what to ask the Case Officer for. It shows trends.

But press is only press and full of false data. It shows party line however.

DATA HANDLING

However it is attained, data is
(a) Collected.
(b) Digested.
(c) Used.

Use is for planning or exposure or for finding where to get more data.

Over-collection is a vice many intelligence services have. The Germans and CIA were or are mad on Overt Data Collection. This can bog a service down.

Data which cannot be fitted to a program or project or used is chaff.

Massive data collection always indicates a service in mystery and without concrete purposes. Many heads and many policy changes cause CIA to have acres of electronic computers and spend billions. There is no overriding purpose, no solid planning or programming and so one has a service dedicated to expensive general defense. They have no hope of winning and neglect to do so. They only currently defend the current fancied minor thrust and no plans the overall war. They are in continual skirmish and the only battles are launched by the enemy.

Data must be asked the question "Does this forward or guide our actions?" "Is it of use?" "Does it lead us to new conclusions?"

the scientific method as given in appendix of an original edition of Book One applies to planning defense and offense actions. One gets facts, formulates a theory to fit them all, applies the theory and gets more facts, restates the theory to fit the new facts, etc.