Intelligence The Secret World of Spies, An Anthology

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

• ISBN13: 9780197667064
• ISBN10: 0197667066
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780197667071
• Additional ISBN(s): 9780190854829
• Edition: 6th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2022-12-15
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary

Intelligence: The Secret World of Spies, An Anthology, is the most up-to-date reader in intelligence studies. Editors Loch K. Johnson and James J. Wirtz present a diverse, comprehensive, and highly accessible set of thirty-five readings by leading experts in the field. This unique volume features coverage of many topics including methods of intelligence collection, intelligence analysis, the danger of intelligence politicization, relationships between intelligence officers and the policymakers they serve, covert action, counterintelligence, accountability and civil liberties, cybersecurity and intelligence, and the global struggle against ISIS.

The anthology includes:

* Articles examining a wide variety of important issues (satellite surveillance, 9/11, the search for WMDs in Iraq, homeland security, and counterterrorism)
* An epilogue analyzing the current state of intelligence
* Introductions at the beginning of each piece that help to contextualize chapter content
* Discussion questions at the end of each chapter that reinforce key concepts and encourage class participation
* Comprehensive coverage of many hot topics including the history of intelligence, how the United States gathers and interprets global information, the meaning of security intelligence, methods of intelligence collection, intelligence analysis, the danger of intelligence politicization, relationships between intelligence officers and the policymakers they serve, covert action, counterintelligence, accountability and civil liberties, the implications of major intelligence failures in 2001 and 2003, and intelligence as practiced in other nationsand the implementation of lessons learned from historical major intelligence failures.

Author Biography

Loch K. Johnson is the Regents Professor Emeritus of Public and International Affairs at the University of Georgia.

James J. Wirtz is Dean of the School of International Graduate Studies at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California.

Table of Contents

About this Book
Preface
About the Editors
About the Contributors

PART I. INTELLIGENCE STUDIES: AN INTRODUCTION
Introduction
1. Sources and Methods for the Study of Intelligence, Michael Warner
2. The British Experience with Intelligence, Percy Cradock
3. History of the Central Intelligence Agency, Anne Karalekas

PART II. INTELLIGENCE COLLECTION
Introduction
4. The Intelligence Cycle, Arthur S. Hulnick
5. Human Source Intelligence, Frederick P. Hitz
6. Open-Source Intelligence, Stephen C. Mercado

PART III. INTELLIGENCE ANALYSIS
Introduction
7. Analysis, War, and Decision: Why Intelligence Failures
Are Inevitable
Richard K. Betts
8. Words of Estimative Probability
Sherman Kent
9. CIA Analysis of the 1967 Arab-Israeli War
David S. Robarge

PART IV. INTELLIGENCE AND THE POLICYMAKER
Introduction
10. A Policymaker's Perspective on Intelligence Analysis
Robert D. Blackwill and Jack Davis
11. Tribal Tongues: Intelligence Consumers, Intelligence Producers
Mark M. Lowenthal
12. The President's Daily Brief: Managing the Relationship Between Intelligence and the Policymaker
Adrian Wolfberg

PART V. THE DANGER OF INTELLIGENCE POLITICIZATION
Introduction
13. The Intelligence-Policy Nexus
James J. Wirtz
14. Safeguarding Objectivity in Intelligence Analysis
Barry Zulauf

PART VI. COVERT ACTION
Introduction
15. The Forms of Covert Action
Loch Johnson
16. Covert Action and Plausible Denial
Rory Cormac and Richard J. Aldrich
17. Pursuing Peace: The Strategic Limits of Drone Warfare
Elke Schwarz
18. Assassination as an Instrument of American Foreign Policy
Bruce D. Berkowitz

PART VII. COUNTERINTELLIGENCE
Introduction
19. The Challenges of Counterintelligence
Paul J. Redmond
20. Cold War Spies: Why They Spied and How They Got Caught
Stan A. Taylor and Daniel Snow
21. Treachery Inside the CIA
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
22. Dealing with Deception in the World of Intelligence
Cynthia M. Grabo

PART VIII. ACCOUNTABILITY AND CIVIL LIBERTIES
Introduction
23. Intelligence: Welcome to the American Government
Gregory F. Treverton
24. Intelligence and the Rise of Judicial Accountability
Frederic F. Manget
25. Congressional Supervision of America's Secret Agencies: The Experience And Legacy of The Church Committee
Loch K. Johnson
26. Forum on the Implications of the Snowden Leaks of
NSA Documents
Loch K. Johnson, Richard J. Aldrich and Christopher Moran, David M. Barrett, Glenn Hastedt, Robert Jervis, Wolfgang Krieger, Rose McDermott, Sir David Omand, Mark Phythian, Wesley K. Wark

PART IX. INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES IN THE 21ST CENTURY: FROM 9/11 AND IRAQI WMD TO COVID-19 AND CYBER OPERATIONS
Introduction
27. 9/11 Intelligence Failure
Kean Commission
28. Spying Blind
Amy B. Zegart
29. Ethics and Intelligence
Michael Herman
30. Intelligence Warning and the Onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Daniel Gressang and James J. Wirtz
31. Intelligence and Cyber-Space
Michael Warner

PART X. INTELLIGENCE: A COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
Introduction
31. Soviet Intelligence and the Cuban Missile Crisis
Raymond L. Garthoff
32. Intelligence Accountability in the UK
Mark Phythian
33. Intelligence Accountability in Canada
34. German Intelligence in the Shadow of the Third Reich
Wolfgang Krieger
35. The "Five Eyes" Intelligence Liaison Alliance
Patrick F. Walsh and Seumas Miller
U.S. Intelligence Leadership, 1947-2018
The Organization of the U.S. Intelligence Community

Glossary
Select Bibliography
Name Index
Subject Index