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Who do you think is the best Intelligence/security agency around(now)? Mine would of been the KGB or the Mossad but the KGB is gone,now it is the FIS(only bits and peices through) so I would say the Mossad.
Of course you might say the CIA but the CIA places too much effort in SIGINT(Sattiletes) not HUMINT(People on the ground) resorces, which limits the validity of the data ie. sattiletes say Syria are not moving troops when in reality Syria is moving troops to attack Isreal(again)but there doing so when the sat's are not in the sky theresore they won't know until the attack comes, if you had HUMINT you might of found that out.
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The best intelligence agency? Clearly, those hard hitting and brave souls over at MTV's 1515. Did you know that even though the two have various lawsuits going at the moment, the members of the Backstreet Boys and N'Sync really think that it's "all cool and stuff"? Now that's information gathering!
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Proposition: As an intelligence agency gets more proficient, fewer of its activities are publicly known.
Conclusion: The very best intelligence agency would be the one whose activities are completely unknown to the public.
Further Conclusion: This discussion is therefore moot, since we are all presumably members of the aforementioned public. Forgive me if this is a poor assumption.
(Welcome, Bishop! I'll borrow Sol's excuse for my behavior above. Nice to have you aboard!)
------------------ Dane
"Mathematicians have long held that a million monkeys banging on a million keyboards would eventually reproduce the collected wisdom of the human race. Now, thanks to the internet, we know this is not true." -- Robert Silensky
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I think Dane's theory holds merit. If an intelligence agency is truly effective, the general public would be completely unaware of its activities. Furthermore, if any of its activities attracted public notice, I presume there would be some sort of cover story that would either shift the blame on another intelligence agency. Even if they deny any involvement, I assume it's standard procedure to deny culpability in any such case, so they'd still get the blame even if innocent.
--Baloo
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There's supposed to be a US intelligence agency that's even higher up than the FBI, CIA, OR NSA, but I forget what it's called (that's my story, anyway). Another three-letter thing.
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Could it be your first, last, and only line of defense, the MIB?
------------------ Dane
"Mathematicians have long held that a million monkeys banging on a million keyboards would eventually reproduce the collected wisdom of the human race. Now, thanks to the internet, we know this is not true." -- Robert Silensky
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