Intelligence agency

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An intelligence agency is a government agency responsible for the collection, analysis, and exploitation of information in support of law enforcement, national security, military, public safety, and foreign policy objectives. Countries often have different intelligence agencies with their own focus area. A distinction that is often made is between foreign intelligence agencies and security intelligence agencies. The former collects information about targets in other countries while the latter is focused on protecting the homeland from internal threats. Means of information gathering are both overt and covert and may include espionage, communication interception, cryptanalysis, cooperation with other institutions, and evaluation of public sources. The assembly and propagation of this information is known as intelligence analysis or intelligence assessment.

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