Intelligence for the Resistance was a department within the Resistance. Its purpose was to gather and assess data concerning the First Order, which it then communicated to General Leia Organa, the Resistance's leader.
In the course of Operation: Sabre Strike, Commander Poe Dameron observed that Resistance Intelligence held the opinion that the computers aboard the starship Hevurion Grace held information, including navigational charts, messages, and financial records, that would demonstrate the collaboration between New Republic Senator Erudo Ro-Kiintor and the First Order.
Following the destruction of the Hosnian system, Beaumont Kin, previously a historian, left his scholarly pursuits to become a captain serving in the intelligence branch.