Bureau of Intelligence and Research

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Bureau of Intelligence and Research

The Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR) is an intelligence bureau in the U.S. State Department tasked with analyzing information. Originally founded as the Research and Analysis Branch of the Office of Strategic Services

Office of Strategic Services

The Office of Strategic Services was a United States intelligence agencies formed during World War II. It was the wartime intelligence agency, and it was the predecessor of the Central Intelligence Agency ....
, it was transferred to the State Department at the end of World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
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United States Intelligence Community

The United States Intelligence Community is a cooperative federation of 16 separate Federal government of the United States agencies that work separately and together to conduct Intelligence activities considered necessary for the conduct of foreign relations and the protection of the national security of the United States....
, of which there are 16 branches. The current number of employees and its budget is classified. The Bureau is headed by the Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research

Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research

The Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research is the head of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research within the United States Department of State....
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In July 2004, the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence

United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence

The United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence is dedicated to overseeing the United States Intelligence Community—the agencies and bureaus of the Federal government of the United States who provide information and analysis for leaders of the executive and legislative branches....
issued a scathing report on prewar intelligence on Iraq

Senate Report of Pre-war Intelligence on Iraq

The Senate Report on Iraqi WMD Intelligence was the report by the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence concerning the U.S. intelligence community's assessments of Iraq during the time leading up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq....
. INR was spared the poor performance review that most other intelligence agencies received, and the panel specifically endorsed the dissent that INR inserted into the National Intelligence Estimate

National Intelligence Estimate

National Intelligence Estimates are Federal government of the United States documents that are the authoritative assessment of the Director of National Intelligence on Intelligence related to a particular national security issue....
of 2002. The bureau is being studied as a positive example, as Congress

United States Congress

The United States Congress is the Bicameralism legislature of the Federal government of the United States of the United States of America, consisting of two houses, the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives....
debates how to best reform U.S. intelligence agencies in the wake of the 2003 invasion of Iraq

2003 invasion of Iraq

The 2003 invasion of Iraq, from March 20 to May 1, 2003, was spearheaded by the United States, backed by United Kingdom forces and smaller contingents from Australia, Spain, Poland and Denmark....
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In May 2004 the National Security Archive

National Security Archive

The National Security Archive is a 501 non-governmental, non-profit research and archival institution located within The George Washington University in Washington, D.C.....
released a secretive 1969 report on the Vietnam War

Vietnam War

The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina Wars, the Vietnam Conflict, or often in Vietnam the American War occurred in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia from 1959 to April 30, 1975....
commissioned by the White House

White House

The White House is the official residence and principal workplace of the President of the United States. Located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., it was built between 1792 and 1800 of white-painted Aquia sandstone in the late Georgian architecture and has been the executive residence of every U.S....
and executed by INR, then led by Thomas Hughes. Highly critical of the current strategy in Vietnam and highly revealing of the political atmosphere in the White House itself, this declassified document has recently highlighted parallels between the situation in Vietnam

Vietnam

Vietnam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam , is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by People's Republic of China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea to the east....
at the time and the current war in Iraq

Iraq War

The Iraq War, also known as the Second Gulf War, the Occupation of Iraq, and Operation Iraqi Freedom, is an ongoing conflicts military campaign which began on March 20, 2003 with the 2003 invasion of Iraq by a Multinational force in Iraq now led by and composed almost entirely of troops from the United States and United King...
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External links

—the official site
—Intelligence Community profile
[https://www.cia.gov/library/publications//oss/index.htm The Office of Strategic Services: America's First Intelligence Agency]—A brief official history on the Central Intelligence Agency's Web site.