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Response: The FBI has modeled its inteihgence program on the traditional intelligence cycle used by all intelhgence entities, including those identified m the question. Through the intelligence cycle: 1) intelligence information pmorities are identified by national-leve! officials, 2) collection strategies are developed by analysts and communicated to collectors, who then collect the information hy developing appropriate sources, 3) the analysis and evaluation of collected inteiligence is converted into intelligence products, 4) intelligence products are dissernimated to consumers inside and outside the FBI, and 5) a feedback mechanism is created to provide collectors, analysts, and collection strategy developers with consumers’ evaluations of intelligence value. To ensure uniform implementation of these processes, the Ol led an FBI-wide effort in 2003 to develop and promulgate e CONOPS for each process. In addition, the FBI has developed implementation plans for each CONOPS and implementation is tracked through a master schedule. While the intelligence cycle outlined above is common to all intelligence entities, the mechanisms by which it is umplemenied are talored to the overall missions of the organizations in which they are housed. The FBI has implemented the intelligence cycle according to four core principles: 1) the independence of the intelligence requirements and collection management process from operations, 2) the mtegration of intelligence production and operations, 3) the standardization of mtelligence processes and policy by the OI and the execution of those processes and polisies by all operational divisions, both at headquarters and in the eld, and 4) the matnx management of all analysts, with performance rating accomplished by operational entities and performance review accomphshed by intelligence entities to ensure that analyst standards are maintained 7. Are you modeling your reform based on any other democratic country's internal intelligence service? Have you looked at the structure and operation of other such systems? If so, what have you concluded? Response: MISC. REQ. #53 ‘The FBI has studied extensively the mechanisms and structures according to which other democracies perform domestic mtelligence production, and bas benefitted greatly from a number of independent analyses of these structures and processes, most notably from the recent stady by the RAND Corporation. We have reached three fundarnental conclusions from our review: 1} each domestic mtelligense service is charged with performing the same basic functions, 2) each nation has bunt organizations io perform those functions that best leverage ther larger federal and murucipal structures, and 3) no organizational construct ts sufficient in and of itself to ekminate "seams" in mformaton shanng 16 000004683