The cultures of science and intelligence are in many ways antithetical. Science is about communication, collaboration, openness and flexible work schedules and getting lifetime credit for the work that one does. Intelligence … is about sensitive or classified information; about working with another's data and publications and not sharing and not giving credit for one's analysis and thought, at least not widely. When we do succeed in hiring first--rate scientists into the Intelligence Community, they too often become disenchanted with the culture in which they must work
