EXPLORATION IN INTELLIGENCE ANALYSISe are interested in the role of exploratory search in the intelligence analysis process, especially its role in sensemaking: how can exploring a set of information help an analyst to synthesize, understand, and present a coherent explanation of what it tells us about the world?The process of exploratory search can help an analyst develop a story implied by relationships among discovered information items. One of the key challenges in supporting this process is the representation, depiction, and recording of insights-the basic elements of analysis. We have developed a simple concept for such representations, called "rich information collections," which contain not just the analyst's search results but also an executable collection specification by which similar information can be