I&W
I&W (Indications and Warning) is the highest-priority category of intelligence, covering military activity and threatening actions, and the failure of I&W mechanisms was a central finding in post-mortems of the 1973 Yom Kippur War intelligence failure.
I&W, standing for intelligence and warning, refers to intelligence that depicts military activity or other potentially threatening actions. This type of intelligence carries the highest classification marking in the American intelligence community. For example, KH-11 imagery provided to Israel depicting military activity inside the border of Israel's four neighbors was considered I&W.1
Sources
- Hersh, Seymour M. The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy. Random House, 1991. Chapter 1. ↩
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Local network
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An interactive diagram of I&W's connections, drawn on a canvas and explored with a pointer. The same connections are listed as links in the Connected and Mentioned-in sections below.
How to read the graph
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Larger = more mentions across the vault.
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A name mentioned in an entry without a direct link. Toggle these with “Inferred”.
Gold rings mark entries mentioned across several clusters.
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