Talk:Intelligence outsourcing

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Improvements needed

This article needs work, but there's hope.

The title needs improvement. Wikipedia titles need to be clearly descriptive, since they drive search engines.
The first paragraph is too much like an essay.
Should this be covered along with outsourcing of other security functions? What about Blackwater Worldwide?

--John Nagle (talk) 16:57, 1 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I think this article has hope, but it will need a great deal of expansion. I'd expect to see additional sections on why a country chooses to outsource intelligence gathering and what advantages and disadvantages this brings. Ideally, there would also be a section on the history of outsourcing intelligence. Right now the article is extremely US-focused; it should be broadened to cover practices in other countries or regions of the world. When you've got a good solid article, I'd recommend putting a summary of the article into the main intelligence (information gathering) article, per wikipedia's guideline on summary style. Karanacs (talk) 20:13, 1 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The current content of the article mostly duplicates Central Intelligence Agency#Outsourcing. Is there anything important here that isn't covered in the main CIA article? --John Nagle (talk) 15:20, 2 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]