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Readings on the Intelligence Community
from the Topic Matrix:
Readings on the Intelligence Community offers the student of intelligence a comprehensive overview of the subject. The book is designed to follow the Whole Intelligence Survey Course currently offered at scores of colleges and universities in the United States.
The Whole Intelligence Survey Course
I. History of Intelligence
II. The OSS
III. The CIA
IV. The Components of Intelligence Collection
V. Covert Action
VI. Intelligence in an Open Society
VII. The Future of Intelligence
Readings on the Intelligence Community
I. The History of Intelligence
II. American Intelligence
III. US Central Intelligence
a. CIA
b. FBI
c. DIA
d. NSA
IV. Methods of Collection
a. HUMINT
b. TECHINT
c. SIGINT
V. Covert Action
VI. Intelligence in the 1990S and Beyond
from my brain:
this book is a very well-done, cut-&-paste publication of the type a professor teaching a course in intelligence would put together, either as individual handouts, or in bound form, after clearing all the copyrights, but w/ the following not-insignificant factors:
-it's compiled by an employee of cia--aka the cia--who also wrote an official history of the cia as well as a photographic history & the cia entrance examination
-it is therefore, obviously, very pro-u.s./pro-agency, so it's "history" portion, at least as regards cia, is, at best, meticulously crafted to put the best face on, or ignore completely, the agency's gaffes; & not just the big ones.
-it was published in 1988, as former cia operative & later director george h.w. bush was running for president, doing whatever vice-presidents used to before dick cheney came along, & lying, generally, about most of his past &, specifically, about anything/everything related to iran-contra/drugs-for-guns deals/&tc.; so it's already grounded in an interesting setting for a book on u.s. intelligence
-it is, in fact, basically a recruiting tool for cia that focuses mostly in the abstract on the practice of espionage/intelligence
it's pretty awesome if yer into this stuff, particularly the art
Readings on the Intelligence Community offers the student of intelligence a comprehensive overview of the subject. The book is designed to follow the Whole Intelligence Survey Course currently offered at scores of colleges and universities in the United States.
The Whole Intelligence Survey Course
I. History of Intelligence
II. The OSS
III. The CIA
IV. The Components of Intelligence Collection
V. Covert Action
VI. Intelligence in an Open Society
VII. The Future of Intelligence
Readings on the Intelligence Community
I. The History of Intelligence
II. American Intelligence
III. US Central Intelligence
a. CIA
b. FBI
c. DIA
d. NSA
IV. Methods of Collection
a. HUMINT
b. TECHINT
c. SIGINT
V. Covert Action
VI. Intelligence in the 1990S and Beyond
from my brain:
this book is a very well-done, cut-&-paste publication of the type a professor teaching a course in intelligence would put together, either as individual handouts, or in bound form, after clearing all the copyrights, but w/ the following not-insignificant factors:
-it's compiled by an employee of cia--aka the cia--who also wrote an official history of the cia as well as a photographic history & the cia entrance examination
-it is therefore, obviously, very pro-u.s./pro-agency, so it's "history" portion, at least as regards cia, is, at best, meticulously crafted to put the best face on, or ignore completely, the agency's gaffes; & not just the big ones.
-it was published in 1988, as former cia operative & later director george h.w. bush was running for president, doing whatever vice-presidents used to before dick cheney came along, & lying, generally, about most of his past &, specifically, about anything/everything related to iran-contra/drugs-for-guns deals/&tc.; so it's already grounded in an interesting setting for a book on u.s. intelligence
-it is, in fact, basically a recruiting tool for cia that focuses mostly in the abstract on the practice of espionage/intelligence
it's pretty awesome if yer into this stuff, particularly the art
285 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1988
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