The US intelligence community is using its unique abilities to monitor foreign countries to keep track of the spread of the coronavirus pandemic and establish whether nations are being truthful about the extent of the outbreak.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the CIA are providing a steady flow of intelligence to oversight committees on Capitol Hill, providing daily briefings and updates about the spread of the virus. The updates focus primarily on the tally of those cases and if they match public reports.
Learn more via the full article, published 13 March 2020, by Alex Marquardt and Zachary Cohen on CNN.com.
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