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What intelligence is, and the cycle it moves through.
The intelligence cycle is the repeating process by which an organisation turns a question it cannot answer into intelligence somebody can act on. It runs in four phases, direction, collection, processing and dissemination, with feedback and review running throughout, and its purpose is to move what you know you do not know into the known, to a standard good enough to support a decision.
