Advertisement Continue reading the main story“Let me just start off by saying I heard it was 17 agencies,” he said when asked about the intelligence assessment. “I said, ‘Boy, that’s a lot.’ Do we even have that many intelligence agencies, right? Some, including an article in The New York Times, incorrectly reported that all 17 American intelligence agencies had endorsed the assessment. It is the best-known American intelligence agency, and it conducts most of the country’s human intelligence and runs most covert operations. Its main intelligence arm is the Defense Intelligence Agency, which is the third-largest intelligence agency.

Source: New York Times July 06, 2017 23:26 UTC