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English Abstracts 163 9/11 Terror and the Reform of the U.S. Intelligence Community Chun, Woong Key Words 9/11 terror, Intelligence failure, Intelligence organization, DNI, Intelligence community, Information sharing This paper examines the changes in the U.S. intelligence community(IC) after the terrorist attack on U.S. on 11 September 2001(9/11), evaluates the result of the U.S. intelligence reform efforts to meet the terrorist threat, and tries to get some lessons to be applied in the case of Korea. Since the 9/11 terror the U.S. has made several attempts to reform its intelligence system, which led to extensive changes in the U.S. intelligence community. A number of intelligence reform commissions have been created to study the way to improve the performance of the U.S. intelligence system, suggesting with different set of recommendations. In this paper, I would argue that the results of the U.S. intelligence reform have not been what the reformers had planned. In fact real change has not occurred, except for increasing bureaucracy. Information-sharing remains a major obstacle within the IC and the DNI does not have sufficient authority to change the situation. Most of intelligence officials are still reluctant to share information across agency lines. Reform efforts since September 11 also suggest that changes to U.S. intelligence agencies are likely to continue lagging behind external environmental demands. In order to improve the future performance, U.S. intelligence agencies should have more efforts to overcome their organizational weaknesses, such as the existence of overlapping entities, the lack of information sharing, and inadequate communication. Intelligence failures usually do not stem from either a shortage of money, personnel, or agencies. The history of intelligence suggests that neither size nor money correlate with success. More agencies makes difficult for cooperation among them. In conclusion, intelligence agencies are required for a continuous effort to adapt external environment and to improve the efficiency of intelligence activities.