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It's worth keeping a bank of them to use before any naval strike or surface combat. The increased chance to find the enemy is not inconsiderable.

With the port attacks it's worth considering. Say you know the US fleet is basing out of Sydney but you can't spot them as there's no recon. You can base your carriers within 24 hexes out of vision then COMINT the port and go in for the attack. Carriers in port don't fly CAP so the results can be devastating.

The other thing is, there's literally nothing else to spend the points on. Breaking the codes and rekeying encryption are absolutely pointless if you don't have COMINT to use in the first place. All those options do it increase the chance of getting a higher recon value when you use the COMINT units. Personally I spend every intelligence point building signals units and never initiate a carrier battle/surface combat without using one.

I agree with building as many as you can. I put a lot into codebreaking and am still getting "low" recon levels. This included a lot of failed attempts which hurts at 60 points a pop. It does not seem to be worth the expense - probably better to spam intelligence agents to improve targeting.