A: Intelligence
Establish an enterprise-wide intelligence capability that optimally positions the FBI to meet current and emerging national
security and criminal threats.
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Situation: Intelligence is more important than ever in today’s evolving threat environment. Having the right information at
the right time is essential to protecting our nation. The FBI has always had outstanding intelligence collection capabilities.
Intelligence is a core competency that is organic to the FBI’s investigative mission and is embedded in Headquarters’ divisions,
field offices, and Legats as an enabling function. The FBI’s many successes in addressing seemingly intractable criminal and
terrorist organizations such as La Cosa Nostra, the Sicilian Mafia, Russian Organized Crime, Fuerzas Armadas de Liberacion
Nacional (FALN), and the Weathermen were directly attributable to an extensive intelligence base and a proactive posture.
However, a changed threat requires a new approach. The FBI has a mandate from the President, Congress, the Attorney General,
and the DCI to protect national security by producing intelligence in support of its own investigative mission, national intelligence
priorities, and the needs of other customers. The FBI must serve the American people with an enterprise-wide Intelligence
Program that effectively uses investigations to serve national security, homeland security, and law enforcement purposes,
that meets external needs for FBI information and analysis, and that protects civil liberties. The FBI has already made substantial
progress in establishing a preeminent national Intelligence Program. The Director elevated intelligence collection, analysis,
production, and dissemination to a level equal to that of our traditional Investigative Programs. He established an Executive
Assistant Director for Intelligence and selected a 24-year senior intelligence professional to serve in that position. Concepts
of operations for each of the intelligence functions have been developed and are currently being implemented. The importance
of the FBI’s national Intelligence Program cannot be overstated. In fact, an enterprise-wide intelligence capability is fundamental
to the success of each of the FBI’s investigative responsibilities from terrorism to violent crimes.
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