Intelligence is about information but also about security. This slightly simplified wording touches nevertheless upon the essential ingredients of any intelligence activity. As Lowenthal grasped this relationship in his well-known definition, “intelligence is the process by which specific types of information important to national security are requested, collected, analyzed, and provided to policymakers.” (Lowenthal 2005: 8). Even though numerous experts sought to put forward more comprehensive conceptual proposals, interdependence between information, security and policymaking seems to constitute the axis of analysis, interpretation and revision of the very meaning (in definitional as well as operative terms) of intelligence. This assumption is particularly important in undertaking a study of an Intelligence Community in a country like Poland where the concept of security, the perception and assessment of threats as well as the organisation and functioning of intelligence services is to a large extent different from the biggest EU member states and requires adoption of a very peculiar stance.
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