Intelligence and National Security: The Secret World of Spies An Anthology

by Johnson, Loch K.; Wirtz, James J.

• ISBN13: 9780195332476
• ISBN10: 0195332474
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-07-24
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

The second edition of Johnson and Wirtz's anthology provides a comprehensive set of readings in the field of intelligence studies. The book spans a wide range of topics, from how the United States gathers and interprets information collected around the world to comparisons of the American intelligence system with the secret agencies of other nations. The text addresses a wide range of material including: (1) the meaning of strategic intelligence; (2) methods of intelligence collection; (3) intelligence analysis; (4) the danger of intelligence politicization; (5) relationships between intelligence officers and the policymakers they serve; (6) covert action; (7) counterintelligence; (8) accountability and civil liberties; (9) the implications of the major intelligence failures in 2001 and 2002 regarding, respectively, the terrorist attacks against the United States and the faulty estimates about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq; and (10) intelligence as practiced in other nations. New to this edition: * A review of the state of intelligence research literature * An interview with former CIA director Richard Helms * The early development of U.S. satellite surveillance * The role of intelligence leaks in the federal government * Improving relations between the producers and consumers of intelligence * The Senate investigation of the Ames spying scandal in the CIA * NSA warrantless wiretaps * Intelligence mistakes leading up to the 9/11 attack * Intelligence failures in the faulty predictions of WMDs in Iraq * Institutional conflicts that contributed to 9/11 failures * The British intelligence failures regarding WMDs in Iraq

Author Biography

Loch K. Johnson is Regents Professor and Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Department of International Affairs at the University of Georgia.
James J. Wirtz is Professor and Chairman of the Department of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California.

Table of Contents

New to this edition

Intelligence in the United States: An Introduction

The Evolution of the U.S. Intelligence Community--A Historical Overview, Phyllis Provost McNeil

The Study of Intelligence in Theory and Practice

A Conversation with Richard Helms, a Director of Central Intelligence

Intelligence Collection

CIA and Its Discontents

Re-examining Problems and Prospects in U.S. Imagery Intelligence

Satellite Surveillance

The Time of Troubles: The US National Security Agency in the Twenty-First Century

CIA's Strategic Intelligence in Iraq

Intelligence Analysis

Analysis, War, and Decision: Why Intelligence Failures Are Inevitable

Open Source Intelligence

A Policymaker's Perspective on Intelligence Analysis

Intelligence Estimates and the Decision-Maker

Early Warning Versus Concept: The Case of the Yom Kippur War 1973

The Danger of Intelligence Politicization

The Politicization of Intelligence

Intelligence to Please? The Order of Battle Controversy During the Vietnam War

Public Intelligence

Intelligence and the Policymaker

Intelligence and National Action

Tribal Tongues: Intelligence Consumers, Intelligence Producers

The Need for Policy Guidance

Covert Action

Interfering With Civil Society: CIA and KGB Covert Political Action During the Cold War

Covert Action: Swampland of American Foreign Policy

Covert Action Can Be Just

Counterintelligence

Cold War Spies: Why They Spied and How They Got Caught

Treachery Inside the CIA, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence

Counterintelligence: The Broken Triad

Accountability and Civil Liberties

Intelligence: Welcome to the American Government

Unleashing the Rogue Elephant: September 11 and Letting the CIA Be the CIA

Ethics and Intelligence

Another System of Oversight Intelligence and the Rise of Judicial Intervention

Congressional Supervision of America's Secret Agencies: The Experience and Legacy of the Church Committee

Warrantless Wiretaps, Yale University School of Law Symposium

Intelligence Activities in the Aftermath of the 9/11 and WMD Intelligence Failures

9/11 Intelligence Failure

WMD Intelligence Failure

Institutional Origins of the 9/11 Intelligence Failure

How U.S. Intelligence Failed

Intelligence in Other Lands

The Heritage and Future of the Russian Intelligence Community

Controlling Intelligence in New Democracies

The British Experience with Intelligence Failure Butler Panel of I

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