These needs are then used to guide collection strategies and the production of appropriate intelligence products".

But the things themselves-the actual things-have to be something more than just intelligence products.

It more like a raw intelligence product, full of unverified and often contradictory assertions.

If that isn't a downright scary dumbing-down of our intelligence product, I don't know what is.

Its mission is to deliver multi-source intelligence products, applications, services, and resources.

Finished intelligence products take many forms depending on the needs of the decision maker and reporting requirements.

The information so gathered is processed by one or more analysts and turned into an intelligence product.

This information was used for threat assessment planning, and improved intelligence products.

"These operations' costs in terms of human loss might have been acceptable if the intelligence product had not been so marginal," he says.

Once hypotheses have been evaluated, the intelligence product must created for the consumer.