U.S. intelligence: Evolution and anatomy (The Washington papers)

Biographies & Memoirs

Lowenthal, Mark M.

True Crime

Praeger

No major twentieth-century power has so short a history of national intelligence agencies or activities as does the United States, and few have been as public or as tumultuous. A major debate has now opened over the future structure, size, and role of U.S. intelligence in the aftermath of the cold war. This unique and fully updated book is a history of the U.S. intelligence community--as well as a detailed description of the organization and function of the major components of the community as they existed at the beginning of 1992.  A welcome and timely update of one of the most concise and objective guides to the history and structure of U.S. intelligence.                             Representative Dave McCurdy,    Chairman, Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence,                            U.S. House of RepresentativesThe history of the intelligence community can be divided into three distinct periods. From its creation in 1947 until the revelations and investigations of 1974-1975, the intelligence community operated under fairly broad grants of authority based on trust. After the Nixon administration, a previously dormant Congress was galvanized to write new oversight provisions and also took on a greater role as a shaper and consumer of intelligence. With the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the cold war in 1991, the intelligence community found its role and even its necessity questioned due to the sudden absence of its major target.  Lowenthal emphasizes that a competent and challenged intelligence capability is an essential part of the U.S. national security structure, despite the status of external events or threats. The major requirement of this structure, he says, is providing timely, objective, and pointed analysis to policymakers across a wide range of issues.

U.S. Intelligence: Evolution and Anatomy (Washington Papers)

History

Praeger Pub Text

No major twentieth-century power has so short a history of national intelligence agencies or activities as does the United States, and few have been as public or as tumultuous. A major debate has now opened over the future structure, size, and role of U.S. intelligence in the aftermath of the cold war. This unique and fully updated book is a history of the U.S. intelligence community--as well as a detailed description of the organization and function of the major components of the community as they existed at the beginning of 1992. A welcome and timely update of one of the most concise and objective guides to the history and structure of U.S. intelligence. Representative Dave McCurdy, Chairman, Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, U.S. House of Representatives
The history of the intelligence community can be divided into three distinct periods. From its creation in 1947 until the revelations and investigations of 1974-1975, the intelligence community operated under fairly broad grants of authority based on trust. After the Nixon administration, a previously dormant Congress was galvanized to write new oversight provisions and also took on a greater role as a shaper and consumer of intelligence. With the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the cold war in 1991, the intelligence community found its role and even its necessity questioned due to the sudden absence of its major target. Lowenthal emphasizes that a competent and challenged intelligence capability is an essential part of the U.S. national security structure, despite the status of external events or threats. The major requirement of this structure, he says, is providing timely, objective, and pointed analysis to policymakers across a wide range of issues.

U.S. Intelligence: Evolution and Anatomy (The Washington Papers)

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Vigilance Is Not Enough: A History of United States Intelligence

Americas

Yale University Press

Crispan Magicker

AVON.

The U.S. Intelligence Community: An Annotated Bibliography (Organizations and Interest Groups)

First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &amp; Francis, an informa company.

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

Routledge

TAKE COVERT ACTION AND SEIZE A COPY OF INTELLIGENCE BEFORE ANYONE ELSE 
Intelligence veteran Mark M. Lowenthal details how the intelligence community’s history, structure, procedures, and functions affect policy decisions. With his friendly prose, he demystifies a complicated and complex process. Rich with examples and anecdotes, Intelligence also includes bolded key terms, an acronym list, suggested readings and websites, and a list of major intelligence reviews or proposals. 
This new, fully-updated fourth edition highlights many crucial recent developments in reforms, ethics, and transnational issues, including: 
• the actual implementation of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) reforms and their successes and strains; • the ongoing legal, operational, and ethical issues raised by the war against terrorism; • the growth of transnational issues, such as WMD; • fresh coverage of analytic standards and analytic transformation; • more in-depth explanation of geospatial, signal, and human intelligence; • a new discussion of the lessons of 9/11; • and, the growing politicization of intelligence in the United States, specifically through the declassified use of National Intelligence Estimates (NIEs).

Intelligence: From Secrets to Policy

Military

CQ Press

Mark M. Lowenthal’s trusted guide is the go-to resource for understanding how the intelligence community’s history, structure, procedures, and functions affect policy decisions. In the fully updated Ninth Edition of Intelligence, the author addresses cyber security and cyber intelligence throughout, expands the coverage of collection, comprehensively updates the chapters on nation-state issues and transnational issues, and looks at foreign intelligence services, both large and small.

Intelligence

Thousand Oaks, California : Sage/CQ Press

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