Public intelligence (practice)
Public intelligence, also described as Official Public Intelligence Disclosure (OPID), is a term used in intelligence studies and intelligence practice to describe the strategic publication of intelligence towards publics that would usually not have access to the information like the general public, mass media or business.[1][2][3] This includes the declassification of documents, or the intentional, strategic leak of select material to certain audiences with particular objectives by states, policy-makers or intelligence agencies.[1]
Reasons and purposes
As a reason for an increase in the practice of public intelligence, intelligence studies describe the wide access to information for non-state actors that were formally reserved for state intelligence organizations, and the rise of citizen journalism and private open-source intelligence.[1][2] Another reason described is the dependency of intelligence services in democratic societies on public support for maintaining trust and enabling recruitment.[2][4] Further reasons and the effects of public intelligence remain in the focus of current research.[5]
Examples
Examples of public intelligence include the publication of intelligence updates by UK Defence Intelligence with its assessment of Russian progress in the Russian invasion of Ukraine via Twitter/X since 2022 on a regular basis.[1][4]
Criticism
While public intelligence may support the attribution of status and authority towards policy-makers, criticism includes that disclosures also risk politicising intelligence.[4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 King's College London/Huw Dylan (1 March 2022): How has public intelligence transformed the way this war has been reported?.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Sophia Hoffmann (2024): The Bundesnachrichtendienst’s ‘public intelligence’ and the limits of transparency. In: Études françaises de renseignement et de cyber. 2024/2 no. 3, pp. 23–38. [1]
- ↑ Riemer, O. (2021). Politics is not everything: New perspectives on the public disclosure of intelligence by states. Contemporary Security Policy, 42(4), 554–583. https://doi.org/10.1080/13523260.2021.1994238.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Joakim Brattvoll (16. Dezember 2024): Intelligence disclosure as a strategic messaging tool> In: NATO Review.
- ↑ Leiden University: Sharing secrets: how and why governments and third-party stakeholders disclose intelligence.
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