ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center
SOURCE: Sources and Methods
27January2011 4:23pmEST
GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: If there is one thing that virtually every intelligence professional, every intelligence sub-discipline, every intelligence training course uses, it is some version of the 
Intelligence Cycle.
If you don't believe me, do a quick Google image search on the words "intelligence cycle". While virtually none of the cycles are the same and virtually no intel professional will swear that this is how intel actually gets done, it appears to be one of the few things that everyone -- national security, law enforcement and business -- uses.
A number of years ago, when I began to question the utility of the cycle (more on that later), I also began to do research on where the cycle came from. Who invented it? When? And under what circumstances? Why did the inventor think that a cycle was the best representation of the intel process? (read full report)
