Intelink

Intelink is the name of the classified and highly secure intranet used by the US intelligence community. It was established in 1994 to take advantage of Internet capabilities and services to promote intelligence dissemination and business workflow. Since then it has become an essential capability for the US intelligence community and its partners to share information, collaborate across agencies, and conduct business. "Intelink" refers to the web environment on protected top secret, secret, and unclassified networks.

In 1999 Fredrick Thomas Martin wrote a book about Intelink, titled "How U.S. Intelligence Built INTELINK - The World's Largest, Most Secure Network" it claims to be an inside look at the U.S. Intelligence Community's worldwide, super-secure intranet, and the never-before-published story of Intelink. [ [http://www.topsecretnet.com/ Home Page for Top Secret Intranet: How U.S. Intelligence Built INTELINK - The World's Largest, Most Secure Network] ] As of 2004 the book is no longer in print, but some user reviews [ [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0130808989 Amazon.com: Top Secret Intranet: How U.S. Intelligence Built Intelink] ] can be found at Amazon.com.

In the novel, Rogue Warrior: Task Force Blue, the protagonist of the story, Richard Marcinko, uses Intelink, as part of his mission countering domestic terrorism in the United States, and his assassination of a Ross Perot-like character, who is the architect of a domestic terror network.

Intelink-U (Intelink-UnclassifiedNet)

Intelink-U was formerly known as the Open Source Information System (OSIS). [ [http://www.fas.org/irp/program/disseminate/intelink.htm Federation of American Scientists Intelligence Resource Program: Intelink] ]

Intelink-S (Intelink-SecretNet)

Intelink-S is the secret-level variant of Intelink. [ [http://www.fas.org/irp/program/disseminate/intelink.htm Federation of American Scientists Intelligence Resource Program: Intelink] ]

Intelink-TS (Intelink-SCI)

The Intelligence Community's Intelink-TS facilitates sharing intelligence products up to the Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) level. [ [http://www.fbi.gov/congress/congress05/bald092105.htm Federal Bureau of Investigation - Congressional Testimony] Statement of Gary M. Bald Executive Assistant Director National Security Branch Federal Bureau of Investigation Before the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary September 21, 2005]

Intelink-P (Intelink-PolicyNet)

Intelink-P is run by the Central Intelligence Agency as CIA’s sole-source link to the White House and other high-level, intelligence consumers. [ [http://www.iwar.org.uk/sigint/resources/csi/intel-in-the-internet-era.htm Intelligence in the Internet Era - Studies in Intelligence] ]

Intelink-C (Intelink-Commonwealth)

Intelink-C links the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia. [ [http://www.iwar.org.uk/sigint/resources/csi/intel-in-the-internet-era.htm Intelligence in the Internet Era - Studies in Intelligence] ]

References

External links

* [https://www.intelink.gov/home.aspx Intelink-U home page]
* [https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/vol49no3/html_files/Intelligence_Networking_6.htm "Connecting the Virtual Dots: How the Web Can Relieve Our Information Glut and Get Us Talking to Each Other"] , Matthew S. Burton, Studies in Intelligence, September 2005
* [http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=755904 "The wiki and the blog: toward a complex adaptive intelligence community"] , D. Calvin Andrus, September 2005.
* [http://events.fcw.com/events/2006/KM/downloads/KM06_1-5_Andrus-CIA.pdf "Wikis and blogs" presentation] by D. Calvin Andrus at the Knowledge Management Conference and Exhibition, April 21, 2006.
* [http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.09/rants.html "Rants + raves: agent of change"] , "Wired", September 2006.
* [http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/03/youtube-for-spi.html "Spies Come In From The Cold With Own Vid-Share Site"] , "Wired", March 25, 2008