
Introduction to Intelligence Studies6
advantage. As a result, they feed disinformation, or intentionally false
information, in the hope of disguising their true activities or intentions.
Can raw information ever rise to the level of intelligence? e dividing
line is far from clear. However, if a member of the IC received uncorrobo-
rated and unveried information that someone had planted a nuclear device
across town that would detonate in 30 minutes, unless they had very good
reason to doubt its authenticity, they would act as if it were intelligence—that
is, they would assume that both the source and information might be credi-
ble and would ta ...