Procurement (intelligence service)

For an intelligence service, procurement refers to the activity of the targeted collection and acquisition of information in order to evaluate it and gain knowledge. In the broader sense of the term, this activity can be carried out both openly and clandestinely using intelligence means and methods. In a narrower sense, the term only describes the covert gathering of information based on intelligence principles.

In addition to the activity, the organizational units entrusted with this task are also referred to as "procurement" in an intelligence service. The persons entrusted with this work are also called “procurers”. The intelligence service counterpart of procurement is evaluation .

Individual evidence

↑ 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 .
↑ ^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. 59 .

[1] 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 .

[Lekikon-2] 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. 59 .