ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a quick history of intelligence instruction and education. It discusses why the Intelligence Community (IC) is not the only industry interested in intelligence degrees and looks at ways to obtain intelligence degrees inside of the IC. The chapter also looks at the changes that have occurred in obtaining intelligence degrees in colleges and universities outside of the IC and contrast that with S. Coulthart and M. Crosston’s study. Intelligence education and training were offered almost exclusively through military intelligence (MI) training schools and in intelligence agencies through seminars, mini-courses, and on-the-job training. The intelligence foundation provided by MI programs is better termed intelligence training rather than the intelligence education that civilian universities provide. Members from most of the intelligence agencies in the IC are developing special relationships with universities. The National Intelligence University is a degree-granting institution that has a far-reaching mission to educate intelligence specialists in current and future national security challenges.
