Intelink

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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. [1] As of 2004 the book is no longer in print, but some user reviews [2] can be found at Amazon.com.

[edit] Reference

• http://www.fas.org/irp/program/disseminate/intelink.htm

[edit] External Links

• "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
• "The wiki and the blog: toward a complex adaptive intelligence community", D. Calvin Andrus, September 2005.
• "Wikis and blogs" presentation by D. Calvin Andrus at the Knowledge Management Conference and Exhibition, April 21, 2006.
• "Rants + raves: agent of change", Wired, September 2006.