The military roots of American intelligence as an organization

Abstract

The concept of intelligence, as an organization, not only most likely predates the extant written and archeological record but has clear, crystallization, dating to antiquity, across multiple historical traditions, in regards to both. Invariably and irrespective of historical tradition, the ensconcing context was either one of state security or the not necessarily mutually exclusive context of military operations. The concept of a military context accurately encapsulates the formative history of intelligence, as an organization, in regards to the United States. The subject study is intended to serve a proper historical context to a series of works that detail both the history of efforts, within the Central Intelligence Agency and its predecessor agency, along with the lexicosemantic product resulting from such efforts, based upon an evaluation of declassified documents, in regards to the task of defining the term intelligence.