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Nov

2011

CIA establishes online worldwide intelligence data bank

"The concept of information sharing by the CIA is considered an oxymoron by some, but the agency has become a leader in this area. The changes came after perceived failures related to 9/11 and the Iraqi weapons of mass destruction debacle.

The CIA responded to those lapses by establishing an online data-sharing environment, the Worldwide Intelligence Review (WIRe). "

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Our business is about information sharing. We’ve become a leader in information sharing. What good is a piece of data if the right people can’t use it to make an informed decision
One key focus for WIRe is to let users find data that they might not know exists. That has to be balanced with the need for security. Those opposing challenges are resolved by showing users names and headlines for reports, articles and other files, along with information on their security level. Sometimes users will see nothing more than an article number, other times they may see the first page of a document based on their security level.
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- Another major focal point is to provide links to other files that may help WIRe users connect the dots and
- Knowledge is no longer seen as discrete; each piece is presented in context. We provide relationships we’ve discovered between files, and users can create tagging structures or other links that we didn’t make
- . Now we lead the field, and people realize we do share information,