Insights of Intelligence Insiders on (Non-) Sharing Intelligence Behaviors

Year 2014, , 51 - 66, 29.08.2014

Musa Tüzüner

https://doi.org/10.20991/allazimuth.167327

Abstract

Insights of Intelligence Insiders on (Non-) Sharing Intelligence Behaviors

Abstract

This study surveys the Turkish intelligence community’s (non-) sharing intelligence behavior. The factors affecting failures to share intelligence and how to increase intelligence sharing practices are examined based on the views of Turkish intelligence insiders. These insiders’ views reveal that the complexity of bureaucratic structures, lack of trust, compartmentalization, power, egoism, fear, informal groupings, lack of reciprocity and lack of feedback are the causes for non-sharing of intelligence. Policy solutions for shifting from non-sharing towards intelligence sharing behaviors is discussed in a new framework including respective government willingness, enhancing capacity of intelligence collection, building intelligence aquariums, creating rules for establishing new intelligence sharing, opening up new communication channels, training, and support for sharing culture. This framework argues that policy change should start first at the agency level, then at the community level and finally at the international level. 

Keywords

Turkish intelligence community, intelligence sharing, intelligence reform

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