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Running Head: INTELLIGENCE POLICY
INTELLIGENCE POLICY
NTELLIGENCE POLICY
Table of Contents
Introduction    3
Intelligence aiding Policy makers before and during a crisis or case    3
Intelligence Officers dealing with the huge amount of information that comes in during a crisis and addressing the policymaker’s need for fast
eaking analysis    4
Obstacles and ba
iers that led to intelligence and/or policy failures    5
Changes that could have been made to avoid the failures. The impact of these changes.    6
Conclusion    7
Reference    8
Introduction
Intelligence agencies have been in existence for ages in the real world. Most countries have their own versions that help the government maintain power and sovereignty. Policy makers heavily depend on such agencies to determine the big trends and information of the world. Policies are made keeping these trends in mind, while implementing strategies. However, the working of these two communities is not smooth and can witness a lot of issues. This paper will have an elaborate discussion of the importance and role of intelligence and their relationship with policy makers. The Bay of Pigs (1961) is taken as a case to analyse the roles, aids and failures of intelligence and policy makers.
Intelligence aiding Policy makers before and during a crisis or case
Intelligence is defined as the collection and analysis of information after investigation and that is not publicly available. This information concerns foreign countries about their status in terms of security and stability in the global environment. Policy makers are symbiotically linked to intelligence (Hopkins and Hughes, 2019). Often failed policies are blamed on bad intelligence, due to the lack of frameworks in the strategies. Good intelligence is the foundation of good policies and sovereignty. Intelligence can warn policy makers of upcoming threats like te
orism and potential wars. Often crises can also be avoided by good intelligence, due to the already developed strategies. The role of such intelligence becomes even more important right before crises and during such crises. This is the source of information for the government during any type of serious crisis. The government cannot trust other sources of information and the only information that can be used as a warning or source of preparation comes from the well analysed hands of the intelligence agencies (Gentry, 2017). The role of the US intelligence and that of the intelligence of the Soviet Union was heightened during the cold war era. Many intelligence agents worked for either sides and collected information for their country.
It is the duty of intelligence to provide crucial information before a crisis and continue this even during the crisis. The cold war era witnessed many such crises like the Bay of pigs and the tet offensive Vietnam. The Bay of pigs incident took place in 1961 and marked an important event in history. It was a covert operation that found its origin in Operation Mongoose, where President Eisenhower signed this. Bay of Pigs was a massive failure for the successive President, John. F. Kennedy. This operation was the result of the information gathered during Operation Mongoose. Sanctioned CIA officers led the operation and Cuban exiled to invade the southwest part of the state and start a revolution against the Cuban government Fidel Castro. The CIA was vital in collecting relevant information and also for locating counter revolutionaries during the Cuba revolution that was won by Castro. This was one of the first times the CIA was acting more actively and openly rather than just acting secretly. They funded and aided the
igade. They also helped supply some US military during this crisis. However they failed to provide appropriate and relevant information during the very significant moments of the crises (Ca
oll, 2018). They had also failed to prevent the leakage of information by spotting the leaking sources. An efficient intelligence would have been able to gather relevant information about Castro and his intelligence as well. The CIA collected all the relevant information before the crises but failed to operate effectively during it possibly due to their extreme active involvement.
Intelligence Officers dealing with the huge amount of information that comes in during a crisis and addressing the policymaker’s need for fast
eaking analysis
The intelligence agency gathers tons of information regarding the world, in terms of intelligence. They are highly trained and qualified to separate the relevant information from the i
elevant ones. The intelligence...