Definition of "communications intelligence" []

• Technical and intelligence information derived from foreign communications by other than the intended recipients (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "Admiral Greenslade, Commander of the Western Sea Frontier and Commandant of the Twelfth Naval District, held keys to GUPID, a Navy communications intelligence system similar to COPEK, CETYH, and TESTM."
• "Most Pearl Harbor historians assert that communications intelligence COMINT was a closely guarded secret disseminated only to a select list of high American government officials."
• "Assistant Secretary of State Adolf Berle, Jr., a principal advisor to FDR, arranged for the exchange of communications intelligence between Canadian WT wireless/telegraph stations and SAIL."