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An '''Intelligence asset''' is generally considered a person within an organization or country, who provides information for an outside party; a [[HUMINT]] source. The more inclusive view is that an asset can be: "any thing designed, developed, cultivated or utilized to collect information (which is) required." The asset is what is used to get the information.<ref>http://www.intelligence101.com/intelligence-assets-what-is-an-intelligence-asset/ saved at [https://web.archive.org/web/20171211141014/http://www.intelligence101.com/intelligence-assets-what-is-an-intelligence-asset/ Archive.org] and [http://archive.is/Y5ldW Archive.is]</ref></ref>
 
 
 
===Politicians as assets===
 
[[Jeff Gates]] expresses the view that: "An asset is someone who has been profiled in sufficient depth, that if you put them in a time place and circumstance, you know within an acceptable range of probabilities, that they will perform consistent with their personality profile."<ref>https://archive.org/details/jeffgatesonthecriminalstate</ref> [[Adolf Hitler]] was profiled from the US side as early as 1922 by [[military attache]] [[Truman Smith]] to: "form an estimate of his character, personality, abilities, and weaknesses."<ref>http://www.andrewnagorski.com/articles/truman-smith-american-who-saw-hitler-coming saved at [https://web.archive.org/web/20171212212512/http://www.andrewnagorski.com/articles/truman-smith-american-who-saw-hitler-coming Archive.org] and [http://archive.is/Vv9jS Archive.is]</ref>
 
 
 
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