Later, my translator called it an intelligence office.

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During the Olympic Games, the U.S. Embassy in London will establish an Olympic Coordination Office, tasked with providing intelligence and timely coordination with the host country and the U.S. Olympic Team.

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In the second world war he was attached to the Office of Strategic Services, an intelligence unit, picking targets in Germany for American bombers to attack, and rose to the rank of major.

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Safer Harrow was one group which was concerned that redeploying back office staff would have an impact on intelligence-led policing.

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At his Senate hearing last month, General Hayden told Michigan Democrat Carl Levin not once but twice that he was not "comfortable" with intelligence-related work that had been done by an office reporting to former Undersecretary of Defense Doug Feith.

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In March 1980, after a personal meeting with President Carter in the Oval Office, the CIA presented Mendez with an award - the Intelligence Star - but as the mission was classified, he was obliged to return it immediately.

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He was twice prime minister but fell out with Mr Lahoud and left office in 2004 to campaign for an end to Syria's military and intelligence presence in Lebanon.

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They fired off a memo under the longwinded title, "How Best to Express the Department's Privacy and Civil Liberties Concerns over Draft Guidelines Proposed by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the National Counterterrorism Center, " according to an email obtained through the Freedom of Information Act.

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