Evaluation (news service)
In an intelligence service, evaluation refers to the targeted and orderly processing of information that was previously obtained openly or by the intelligence service. The information is first checked (verified) for credibility, truthfulness and plausibility and then processed in an organized manner for reporting. The evaluation should help to create situation reports and keep them up to date, to be able to provide information about people, facts and events and to create forecasts.
The evaluation summarizes the results of the procurement with the aim of drawing conclusions about the strength, potential and intentions of an opponent or target country. Further information requirements can be made on the basis of the results of the evaluation.
In addition to the evaluation activity, the organizational units entrusted with this task are also referred to as "evaluation" in a news service. The persons entrusted with this work are also called "evaluators" or "analysts". The intelligence service counterpart of the evaluation is procurement .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Helmut Roewer , Stefan Schäfer and Matthias Uhl : Lexicon of secret services in the 20th century . Herbig, Munich 2003, ISBN 978-3-7766-2317-8 , pp. 40 .
- ↑ Bodo Hechelhammer (Hrsg.): Intelligence service definitions of the " Organization Gehlen " and the early Federal Intelligence Service (= Federal Intelligence Service [Hrsg.]: Communications of the research and working group "History of the BND" . Volume 4 ). Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-943549-03-4 , pp. 10 .