An Overview of the Intelligence Community Intelligence Community is a large, complex structure, organized and operated pursuant to a multitude of laws, executive orders, policies, and directives The essential role of intelligence is not difficult to understand. It is to provide timely, relevant information to policymakers, decisionmakers. this mission involves tasking, collecting, processing, analyzing, and disseminating intelligence, commonly referred to as the "intelligence cycle. The intelligence cycle drives the day-to-day activities of the Intelligence Community. the consumer of intelligence sets forth a need for information The collected intelligence information is processed, analyzed, and reported simultaneously to the customer The customer has the option of providing feedback
What are Consumer Needs? The consumer requests information from intelligence agencies. the request is simple and is made to satisfy an immediate requirement: "tell me about a foreign leader or a foreign airfield”.