Intelink

Intelink-U (Intelink-SBU) is a sensitive but unclassified (SBU) variant of Intelink which was established for use by U.S. federal organizations and properly vetted state, tribal, and local officials so sensitive information and open source intelligence could be shared amongst a secure community of interest. Intelink-U was formerly known as the Open Source Information System (OSIS). Intelink-U operates on the DNI-U network.{{Cite web |url=https://fas.org/irp/program/disseminate/intelink.htm |title=Federation of American Scientists Intelligence Resource Program: Intelink |access-date=2024-04-29 |archive-date=2016-09-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160914034332/https://fas.org/irp/program/disseminate/intelink.htm |url-status=dead }}[https://fas.org/irp/program/disseminate/osis.htm Federation of American Scientists Intelligence Resource Program: Open Source Information System (OSIS)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150409003846/https://fas.org/irp/program/disseminate/osis.htm |date=2015-04-09 }}[http://www.dni.gov/reports/IC_Consumers_Guide_2009.pdf National Intelligence, a consumer's guide, 2009] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120524093812/http://www.dni.gov/reports/IC_Consumers_Guide_2009.pdf |date=2012-05-24 }}

Intelink-S (Intelink-Secret or Intelink-SIPRNet) is the secret-level variant of Intelink which is primarily used by the U.S. Departments of Defense, State, and Justice. Intelink-S operates on SIPRNet.

Intelink-TS (Intelink-SCI) is the Intelligence Community's Intelink which facilitates sharing intelligence products up to the Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) level. Intelink-TS operates on JWICS.[https://www.fbi.gov/congress/congress05/bald092105.htm Federal Bureau of Investigation - Congressional Testimony] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100410002010/http://www.fbi.gov/congress/congress05/bald092105.htm |date=2010-04-10 }} Statement of Gary M. Bald Executive Assistant Director National Security Branch Federal Bureau of Investigation Before the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary September 21, 2005

Intelink-P (Intelink-PolicyNet) is run by the Central Intelligence Agency as CIA's sole-source link to the White House and other high-level, intelligence consumers. Today, Intelink-P is more commonly referred to as CapNet.[http://www.iwar.org.uk/sigint/resources/csi/intel-in-the-internet-era.htm Intelligence in the Internet Era – Studies in Intelligence] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070422052142/http://iwar.org.uk/sigint/resources/csi/intel-in-the-internet-era.htm |date=2007-04-22 }}

Intelink-C (Intelink-Commonwealth) links the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia intelligence communities at the TS/SCI level. Today, Intelink-C is more commonly referred to by its network name of STONEGHOST.

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.{{Cite web |url=http://www.topsecretnet.com/ |title=Home Page for Top Secret Intranet: How U.S. Intelligence Built INTELINK - The World's Largest, Most Secure Network |access-date=2006-04-19 |archive-date=2013-07-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130718042919/http://topsecretnet.com/ |url-status=live }}

In the novel Rogue Warrior: Task Force Blue by Richard Marcinko, the protagonist uses Intelink, during his mission countering domestic terrorism in the United States, and his assassination of a Ross Perot-like character, who is the architect of a domestic terror network.

In the novel Threat Vector by Tom Clancy, one of the characters found an exploit in the Microsoft's Remote Desktop Protocol that allowed him to penetrate the networks of a United States defense contractor and exploit that penetration to access Intelink-TS.

Two chatrooms were created and hosted on Intelink titled LBTQA and IC_Pride_TWG, where employees allegedly discused explicit behavior. Tulsi Gabbard fired over 100 employees at 15 security agencies who participated in the chatrooms, and cancelled their security clearances.{{cite news|access-date=26 February 2025 |author1=Julian E. Barnes |date=25 February 2025 |language=en |quote=Ms. Gabbard had sent a memo to all intelligence agencies asking them to identify all employees who had participated in “sexually explicit chat rooms” on the N.S.A. tool |title=Gabbard Says More Than 100 Intelligence Officers Fired for Chat Messages |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/us/politics/gabbard-nsa-firing-explicit-chat.html |work=New York Times}}

{{cite news|access-date=26 February 2025 |author=Beatrice Peterson|date=26 February 2025 |language=en |quote=More than 100 intelligence community employees will be terminated and have their security clearances revoked as the intelligence community investigates group chats that allegedly discussed explicit behavior, officials said. The chats, [...], took place on a secure intranet called Intelink in two server channels titled "LBTQA" and "IC_Pride_TWG,"|title=100 intelligence staffers to be fired for engaging in explicit chats: Gabbard |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/100-intelligence-staffers-fired-engaging-explicit-chats-gabbard/story?id=119195709|work=American Broadcasting Company}}

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Intelink itself is also mentioned in several novels written by Andy Mcnab, in particular Crisis Four.

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• [https://www.intelink.gov/ home page] - Intelink-U

:*https://web.archive.org/web/20100528093217/https://www.intelink.gov/

• [https://web.archive.org/web/20070613110711/https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/vol49no3/html_files/Intelligence_Networking_6.htm "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 (cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications)
• [https://ssrn.com/abstract=755904 "The wiki and the blog: toward a complex adaptive intelligence community"], D. Calvin Andrus, September 2005.
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20061206094854/http://events.fcw.com/events/2006/KM/downloads/KM06_1-5_Andrus-CIA.pdf "Wikis and blogs" presentation] by D. Calvin Andrus at the Knowledge Management Conference and Exhibition, April 21, 2006.
• [https://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.09/rants.html "Rants + raves: agent of change"], Wired, September 2006.
• [http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/03/youtube-for-spi.html "Spies Come In From The Cold With Own Vid-Share Site"], Wired, March 25, 2008

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