From an abstract I came across while researching the phrase, public intelligence (that is, if such a thing exists or has ever existed, or if intelligence has always been “secret”).

The production, dissemination, and consumption of intelligence analysis and estimates has long been viewed by practioners, policy makers, and scholars as a highly secret undertaking where debates over the meaning of events and plotting of trends occur out of public view. Because of this intelligence
controversies have tended to be after-the-fact affairs focusing on instances of strategic surprise such as the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the Tet Offensive in Vietnam, or the Falkland Islands War, or the 1973 Arab-Israeli War.

Connecting this with a half-a-wex to this subject:

A PRIVATE intelligence company has been engaged by police to secretly monitor internet and email use by activist and protest groups, a report says.

Open secrets. Coming soon: PDF whitepaper, “Building A New Internet: Freedom & The Flow of Secrecy“]