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Scholars have not unjustly regarded American intelligence as isolated & backward in most fields before & well into the course of WWII. Nevertheless, a closer look at the emergence of new missions for US intelligence agencies during this period shows that many of these developments occurred in response to contacts with friendly & adversarial foreign intelligence services. Liaison relationships, moreover, were crucial to the construction of a more modern American intelligence system during & just after the war. Charting these influences shows how liaison contacts affect a developing intelligence structure, & suggests that the quality of contacts with foreign intelligence services affects not only the direction but the pace of intelligence modernization. As a converse, inhibited liaison relationships sometimes slowed useful growth. Adapted from the source document.

Intelligence cannot be fully or even meaningfully understood outside its cultural context. Work that seeks to study intelligence a contextually risks the imposition of an investigator's view of the world on the rest of the world. Moreover, work on intelligence within a single culture may fail to do justice to the range of skills and knowledge that may constitute intelligence broadly defined and risks drawing false and hasty generalizations. In this article, we consider the relevance of culture to intelligence and its investigation, assessment, and development. We describe studies from diverse continents, based on the theory of successful intelligence, that show the importance of understanding intelligence in its cultural context and conclude that intelligence must be understood in such context.