The Problem of Secret Intelligence

Systematically develops a new concept of intelligence as a cognitive activity that needs to be understood holistically

What is intelligence--why is it so hard to define, and why is there no systematic theory of intelligence? Classic intelligence analysis is based on an inference between history and the future--and this has led to a restriction in how we can perceive new threats, and new variations of threats. Now, Kjetil Anders Hatlebrekke rethinks intelligence analysis, arguing that good intelligence is based on understanding the threats that appear beyond our experience, and are therefore the most dangerous to society.

Kjetil Anders Hatlebrekke is Associate Professor at the Norwegian Defence Intelligence School. He earned his PhD from King´s College, London. Hatlebrekke has served in the Norwegian Armed Forces since 1990, and has operational experience from Bosnia, Kosovo, the Middle East and Afghanistan. In Afghanistan he served as an intelligence officer in Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Anaconda. The unit he was in was awarded the US Navy Presidential Unit Citation.

Part I

1. Cognition

2. Intelligence and Discourse Failure

Part II

3. Secrecy and Intelligence Tribal Language

Part III

4. On Collection

5. On Analysis

6. On Dissemination

7. On Action and Decision by the Intelligence Consumer

Conclusion
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