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The Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR) is an intelligence bureau in the United States Department of State tasked with providing all-source intelligence support to U.S. diplomats and analyzing information. Originally founded as the Research and Analysis Branch of the Office of Strategic Services (1942-1945), it was transferred to the Department of State at the end of World War II. The Bureau of Intelligence and Research is part of the U.S. Intelligence Community. The current number of employees and its budget are classified. The Bureau is headed by the Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research, currently Daniel B. Smith. ==History== In July 2004, the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence issued a scathing report on prewar intelligence on Iraq. INR was spared the poor performance review that most other intelligence agencies received, and the panel specifically endorsed the dissent that INR inserted into the National Intelligence Estimate of 2002. The bureau is being studied as a positive example, as Congress debates how to best reform U.S. intelligence agencies in the wake of the 2003 invasion of Iraq.〔(The Reach of War: Intelligence; Tiny Agency’s Iraq Analysis is better than Big Rivals’ ). The New York Times. Retrieved on 2015-04-07.〕 In May 2004, the National Security Archive released a previously highly classified review of INR's written analysis of the Vietnam War during the 1960s commissioned in 1969 by Thomas L. Hughes, then Director of INR. The review showed that INR had repeatedly warned of the weaknesses of the South Vietnamese Government and of the failing US strategy in Vietnam, and that, despite pressure from the military and Pentagon, INR had portrayed and projected the course of the war more accurately than any other source. In June 2009, the FBI arrested former INR employee Walter Kendall Myers on charges of serving as an illegal agent of the Cuban government for nearly 30 years and conspiring to provide classified U.S. information to the Cuban government. Myers’ arrest was the culmination of a 3-year joint FBI/Department of State Diplomatic Security investigation. Myers worked in the INR from 2000 until October 2007.〔(Arrest of Walter Kendall Myers ). State.gov. Retrieved on 2013-08-16.〕 On October 23, 2009, President Barack Obama nominated Philip S. Goldberg to be the Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research; his nomination was confirmed by the Senate on February 9, 2010. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bureau of Intelligence and Research」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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