U.S. intelligence community has 107,035 employees.

The Washington Post ^ | August 29 2013 | Barton Gellman and Greg Miller,

[MeshugeMikey]

U.S. intelligence community, which has 107,035 employees.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Well, let’s see now. The population of the US is 311,591,917 according to the most recent census. There are 107,035 intelligence employees. Let’s make it simple (after all, this IS government work) and say 300 million and 100 thousand. So that is 3E8 / 1E5 or 3E3. So you have 3,000 people per employee. See how easy that is?

Sleep comfortably knowing you almost have your own personal agent acting as your guardian angel.

[Tenega]

Indeed, the number of just over 100,000 intelligence “employees” grossly understates the total amount of manpower being marshaled and deployed. The WaPo article notes the CIA alone now has 21,575 “case officers,” up from 17,000 10 years ago. It also credits the CIA with $14.7 billion of budgeted spending in FY 2013, or about 28% of the total $52.6 billion reported. That’s almost $700,000 of CIA spending per case officer. Clearly, the published total of IC employees must only include the on-payroll (W-2 reporting) government staff. There must be two or three times that many people running around as unofficial “assets” being paid per diem or in casual ways for the work they do.

[S.O.S121.500]

Took so many to find an IQ point?

[KosmicKitty]

Define “Intelligence Community”

There 16 different agencies which all have an intelligence aspect to them falling into several jurisdictions such as the DOD, the DOJ, DOS, the Treasury department and so . Actually, I’m surprised the number of employees isn’t higher.

Here’s the list:

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)

National Security Agency (NSA)

National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)

National Reconnaissance Office (NRO)

Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Agency (AFISRA)

Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM)

Marine Corps Intelligence Activity (MCIA)

Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI)

Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence (OICI)

Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A)

Coast Guard Intelligence (CGI)

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

Drug Enforcement Administration, Office of National Security Intelligence (DEA/ONSI)

Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR)

Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence (TFI)

[MeshugeMikey]

National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

Spying on the planet since 1934..../s

[MeshugeMikey]

“Were in Good Hands with All Statist”..../s