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2. Uf the starting point for the FBI's intelligence related activities remains a case, presumably opened due to some inimical activity, how is the FBI being proactive in preventing the next catastrophic terrorist attack? Respons The staring point for FBY intelligence activities is the intelligence requirement, not the “case " Intelligence requirements directly reflect national security pnonities and serve as predication for the opening of cases designed to prevent | acts of harm to the nation. In the FBI, the “case” 1s the vehicle for organizing investigative work Because the starting pomt for the FB! intelligence program is an intelligence requirement, we ensure thet FBI cases are opened to develop the information we must obtain to prevent not unly terronst activities, but also hostile intelligence operations, cyber attacks, and criminal activities that would harm nation. 3. Prior to the creation of the Office of Intelligence in late 2001, could you explain how the intelligence cycle worked within the FBI? For example, how would a tasking for domestic intelligence collection from another member of the U.S. Intelligence Community be communicated across the FBI, and then a response back to requesting party? Response: In late 2001, an Ol was created in CTD. This represented Stage One of the FBI's efforts to develop an enterprise-wide intelugence program, and focused largely on aligning intelligence production efforts with national priorities and developing standards for analyst raming and performance. Stage Two of our efforts focused on creating a robust analytic capability in CTD with the help of 25 analysts detailed to the FBI from the CLA. Stage Three of our efforts was the creation of an FBI-wide intelgence program to ensure uniform unplementation of the intelligence cycle across a!) investigative programs. Prior to the creation of the Ol in early 2003, the FBI's intelligence cycle was implemented in each of the mvestigative programs. Requests from other agencies went chrectly to those investigative programs, often facilitated by liaison officers at cach orgamization’s respective headquarters. Except where tasking was associated with a specific operational lead to one or more field offices, there was no mechanism to ensure a response was provided to the requestmg party Sunularly, there wae no single center responsible for ensurmg that other mterested parties Knew or had access to the response. Most importantly, the requests for information rarely crossed investigative programs and, as a consequence, the full breadth of FBI collection assets was not mobilized im response to the request. 21 MISC. REQ. #53 000004688