Intel in unstable world

No. 2 at CIA looks to the agency's future in campus talk

Cohen, the second-highest ranking officer in the agency, highlighted three main goals: improvements in human intelligence, creation of a new body within the CIA devoted to the surveillance of the digital domain and promoting an inclusive work force with more diversity at all levels of the CIA.

In what CIA analysts call a “world that is more unstable than it has been for several decades” with “more outbreaks of instability in any time since the collapse of the Soviet Union,” Cohen said change is needed inside the agency. He also cited declines in democracy around the world and the increase in the number of displaced people around the world reaching an all-time high since World War II.