intelligence activity
1
3.9
- noun
- /ɪnˈtɛlɪdʒəns ˈæktɪvɪti/
- Specialized
:
actividad de inteligencia
- Indeed, in view of the Ames spy case, detection of foreign intelligence activities in general should be a high priority.
- human intelligence activity
Examples
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By framing (justifiably and accurately) the struggle between the West and Soviet communism in moral terms, U.S. policymakers helped to justify the active U.S. intelligence efforts during the Cold War, occasionally arguing that certain intelligence activities should be considered as the "lesser of evils."
Academic text (1996) -
On Capitol Hill, both oversight committees currently have wise and sensible chairmen and ranking minority members; the current occupant of the Oval Office, a former DCI, is a president with a grasp of intelligence realities derived from personal experience in managing a broad range of intelligence activities.
Academic text (1990) -
Intelligence activities, generally, are not easy for an open, democratic society to conduct effectively, especially in peacetime.
Academic text (1990) -
Humanitarian relief and peacekeeping efforts have important ramifications for U.S. intelligence activities.
Academic text (1996) -
However, other interests are also at play as Iran supports conservative Shi'i religious schools and warlords and is increasing its intelligence activities across Afghanistan.
Academic text (2009) -
In addition, parts of the national news media in the United States are not only skeptical in principle about the secrecy that has often surrounded intelligence activities, but are unconvinced of the actual need for many U.S. intelligence activities.
Academic text (1996) -
In the course of pilfering thousands of documents for the Israelis, Pollard also stole five classified documents that gave background information about Chinese diplomats and intelligence activities in the United States.
Academic text (2011) -
The absence of a serious visible threat to U.S. security will reinforce trends in the post-Cold War U.S. political culture that will create pressures to reduce or more carefully limit, regulate, or otherwise constrain intelligence activities in general.
Academic text (1996) -
The direct and obvious threat to the United States from the Soviet Union during the Cold War somewhat neutralized the traditional American antipathy to secrecy, but the United States has now returned to a more typical situation where the burden of persuasion is on those who would maintain secrecy in intelligence activities.
Academic text (1996) -
Congress is required by law to approve significant intelligence activity related to national security.
Synonyms
531
4.6
Secret information collected about a country or group for security
103
5.8
A short trip to find information about an area, often before fighting
67
8.2
A search to find information about an area or enemy before an attack
8
4.9
A secret activity by a government to gather information about an enemy or threat
5
6.8
A military trip to find out where the enemy is and what they are doing
How Covert
- Formal
3
7.7
23
5.7
- Specialized
1
3.9
- Specialized
526
6.2
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'operations involved in gathering, analyzing, and using information' is directly and compositionally derivable from 'intelligence' (secret information) + 'activity' (an action or operation): it denotes actions relating to intelligence. This simple noun–noun combination follows common, cross‑linguistic compounding patterns, so a B1 learner who knows both words would very likely infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Intelligence activity comes from the image of people working to find and use secret information. The word intelligence means the information and activity means the work of collecting, checking and sending it, so the phrase means 'actions to gather, study and use information' for security or military purposes.