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While half the convoy escaped, Staff Sgt Cullingworth, who was married with two sons, and Sapper Allsopp were taken to a local Baath party headquarters and then to an Iraqi intelligence base, where they were shot dead.
The Russian Navy could gain a Mediterranean base, but Russian intelligence would then lose the ability to mingle freely with Nato personnel, suggests the author, so it is swings and roundabouts.
Intelligence experts say the base is still important to Russia but not as essential as it was at the height of the Cold War.
And the technology base to deliver more real time intelligence is growing, for example in traffic infrastructure where we are now approaching the point of real time traffic updates provided by cars on the road.
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Pakistan also kicked the Central Intelligence Agency out of a base that the spy agency had long used as a launching pad for drone strikes against militant targets in Pakistani tribal areas bordering Afghanistan.
According to the BBC's Sushil Sharma in Kathmandu, local analysts say the expulsion coincides with Indian allegations that Pakistani intelligence services are using Nepal as a base against India.
Randall Larsen, director of the Institute for Homeland Security, was enthusiastic about the expanded base of people with access to "secret" intelligence, saying it is particularly needed by behavior detection officers, who look for travelers exhibiting unusual behavior.
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Leveraging a large install base is going to be one of the requirements for intelligence tools.
No intelligence source in a war zone is brought into a base of any kind without being checked and screened.
With that intelligence, marketers can run personalized email campaigns to reactivate their customer base, target audience based on interest segments on Facebook or run creative photo upload campaigns on Instagram.
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Israel's intelligence operations have also been stepped up, albeit from a very low base.
U.S. intelligence believes the Russians are sending the ship to help fortify its naval base in Syria as the situation in the country continues to spiral out of control, Pentagon officials said.
But the base is also the home of the National Security Agency, the high-security codebreaking and intelligence service.
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