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Spy organisation which makes the news (12)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

intelligence

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'news' is the definition.
(I know that news can be written as intelligence)

'spy organisation which makes the' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'organisation' could be 'el' (el is a kind of organization) and 'el' is present in the answer.
'the' could be 't' (the is pronounced as a 't' sound in some dialects) and 't' is located in the answer.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

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(Other definitions for intelligence that I've seen before include "Mind; news" , "army section?" , "Covert information" , "Ken" , "Covertly-gathered info" .)

I've seen this clue in The Globe and Mail.
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