One of the first fan sites for SOE's upcoming MMO, The Agency, has posted their first interview with the development team.  Hal Milton, Lead Designer for the game answered quite a few of our burning questions!

[00G] You’ve mentioned an intel camera for taking pictures of handoff’s, liason’s, etc. How is this used in the game? What benefits does it give?

[HM] So intel is a pretty big system. There will be visual intel, physical intel, and maybe another type which I’m not going to mention. You generate visual intel by bringing out your camera and taking pictures of events or objects that are going to highlighted when you look through the view finder. That means that A) I see a teddy bear with a gun sticking out of it’s stomach, “I bet that’s an intel object that I’ve never seen before”, I take a picture and get credit for it. B) I see a liason between two people, I bring up my camera, “Hey look that’s an intel object!”, take a picture of it and get credit.

It's really a huge look at a game we haven't seen much from!  For more details on The Agency, including our own coverage, try the game list entry!