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I'd bet the single largest consumer of intelligence data from the CIA is the US Military, which, is considerably staffed by the US Military. I might be splitti
by blantonl 16y ago
I'd bet the single largest consumer of intelligence data from the CIA is the US Military, which, is considerably staffed by the US Military.
I might be splitting hairs here, but it is a well known fact that a tremendous amount of CIA employees are geologists, economists, and market analysts.
Realistically, while the CIA's job is to supply the nation's President and governmental agencies with intelligence, the end result of a lot of work the CIA does is for the US Military. And you can bet a ton of work is done around the Petroleum supply.
- zeteo 16y agoLook, this is not a study by the CIA. It's been prepared by the German military, and the article sources no other primary information. If there is a study done by actual geologists and market analysts, I'll get excited when I see it.
- philwelch 16y agoThanks to history and stupid bureaucratic politics, though, the military has their own intelligence agencies as well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Naval_Intelligence http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Naval_Intelligence http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_Intelligence_Agency http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_Intelligence_Agency