The CIA is adopting Web 2.0 tools such as blogs and collaborative wikis, but apparently the outfit is having trouble with the concept of spies telling anyone anything.

Sean Dennehy, a CIA analyst and "evangelist" for Intellipedia, the US intelligence community's version of the popular user-curated online encyclopedia Wikipedia said that everything was in an early adoptive stage and he was facing all sorts of "cultural issues". Intellipedia runs on secure government intranets and is at the heart of 16 US intelligence agencies since 2006.

There are a few senior people who back it but some of the problem is the concept of "need to know" with most people in the Intelligence community thinking they are the only people who need to know. Others who don't need to know shouldn't even ask to know and if they do end up knowing then they need to be dragged to some German woodland so that they don't need to know any longer. [I am not sure I know what you mean. Ed].

Dennehy said there needs to be a balance between the need to know and the 'need to share.' And trying to implement these tools in the intelligence community is basically like telling people that their parents raised them wrong.

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