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Parent topics
- Weapons of mass destruction [r]: Weapons that cause death or injury not primarily through kinetic energy of projectiles or the detonation of conventional explosives, but rather produce large-scale effects greater than possible with the same weight of explosives weapons; by means heat, blast and radiation from nuclear weapon; poisoning by chemical weapon; infectious disease by biological weapons; or acute or chronic radiation syndromes from radiological weapons. [e]
- Iraq and weapons of mass destruction [r]: Threats, development programs and actual use, of weapons of mass destruction by Iraq, from the 1970s through the Iraq War [e]
- United States intelligence community [r]: The United States' intelligence agencies coordinated by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. [e]
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Members
- Charles Robb [r]: Member, International Security Advisory Board, United States Department of State; Member, Iraq Study Group; Co-chairman, Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction; former Senator (D-Virginia) [e]
- Laurence Silberman [r]: Senior circuit judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit; co-chairman, Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction; member of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court; Under Secretary of Labor, Deputy U.S. Attorney General, and U.S. Ambassador to Yugoslavia [e]
- Richard Levin [r]: Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction; President of Yale University in 1993; previously chair of the economics department and served as dean of the Graduate School [e]
- John McCain [r]: (1936–) Republican Senator from Arizona (1986–) and the Republican presidential candidate in 2008; ranking minority member, Senate Armed Services Committee; member ex officio, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence; Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction [e]
- Henry Rowen [r]: Senior fellow, Hoover Institution; Director emeritus of the Asia/Pacific Research Center at Stanford University; Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs (1989-1991); Chairman of the National Intelligence Council (1981-1983); served as President of the RAND Corporation (1968-1972) [e]
- Walter Slocombe [r]: Law firm of Caplin & Drysdale; Secretary, Atlantic Council; senior adviser, Center for Strategic and International Studies; Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction ; Under Secretary of Defense for Policy (1994-2001); Senior Advisor and Director for Security Affairs (National Security and Defense) Coalition Provisional Authority, 2003 [e]
- William Studeman [r]: Public Interest Declassification Board; retired Vice President and Deputy General Manager for Intelligence and Information Superiority, Northrop Grumman Mission Systems; Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction; Deputy Director of Central Intelligence(1992-1995); former Director, National Security Agency; vice admiral, retired, U.S. Navy [e]
- Charles Vest [r]: Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction; President of MIT (1990-2004); President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology [e]
- Patricia Wald [r]: Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction; judge of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (1999-2001); 20 years on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, including five years as chief judge [e]
Other related topics
- Clandestine human-source intelligence [r]: clandestine operations by people who secretly collect intelligence, and their support by couriers, forgers, radio operators, and other pperational personnel. [e]
- Deception [r]: The act of deceiving or misleading, through the intentional concealing or misrepresentation of facts. [e]
- Imagery intelligence [r]: the practice of taking and interpreting visible and infrared light photographs and video, radar imagery, and other ways to form pictures of subjects of interest [e]
- Intelligence dissemination management [r]: The process of managing the distribution of intelligence information to appropriate consumers, consistent with the conflicting demands of security and usability. [e]
- Measurement and signature intelligence [r]: A variety of intelligence gathering disciplines complementary to the technical "mainstream" of imagery intelligence and signals intelligence. [e]
- Open source intelligence [r]: Obtaining information, to be used in intelligence analysis, from sources available to the public. such as radio and television broadcasts, web sites, books, and similar materials. [e]
- U.S. intelligence and transnational counterproliferation activities [r]: An overview over activities of the United States intelligence community, specifically dealing with arms control, weapons of mass destruction and weapons counterproliferation. [e]
Bot-suggested topics
- Central Intelligence Agency [r]: The principal civilian intelligence organization of the United States, specializing in all-source intelligence analysis, clandestine human-source intelligence, and covert action. [e]
- Defense Intelligence Agency [r]: One of the members of the United States intelligence community, charged with providing national-level analysis specifically relevant for military needs, and being the focal point for measurement and signature intelligence [e]
- Director of Central Intelligence [r]: Formerly, the U.S. official that headed both the Central Intelligence Agency and the United States intelligence community; the responsibility is now split between the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (currently Leon Panetta) and the Director of National Intelligence (currently Dennis Blair) [e]
- Director of National Intelligence [r]: The professional head of the United States Intelligence Community, reporting to the President, currently Dennis Blair [e]
