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Intelligence: From Secrets to Policy

✍ Scribed by Mark M. Lowenthal


Publisher
CQ Press
Year
2019
Tongue
English
Leaves
616
Edition
8
Category
Library

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✦ Synopsis


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 Eighth 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.

✦ Table of Contents


CHAPTER 1 β€’ What Is β€œIntelligence”?
Why Have Intelligence Agencies?

What Is Intelligence About?

Key Terms

Further Readings

CHAPTER 2 β€’ The Development of U.S. Intelligence
Major Themes

Major Historical Developments

Key Terms

Further Readings

CHAPTER 3 β€’ The U.S. Intelligence Community
Alternative Ways of Looking at the Intelligence Community

The Many Different Intelligence Communities

Intelligence Community Relationships That Matter

The Intelligence Budget Process

Key Terms

Further Readings

CHAPTER 4 β€’ The Intelligence Processβ€”A Macro Look: Who Does What for Whom?
Requirements

Collection

Processing and Exploitation

Analysis and Production

Dissemination and Consumption

Feedback

Thinking About the Intelligence Process

Key Terms

Further Readings

CHAPTER 5 β€’ Collection and the Collection Disciplines
Overarching Themes

Strengths and Weaknesses

Conclusion

Key Terms

Further Readings

CHAPTER 6 β€’ Analysis
Major Themes

Analytical Issues

Intelligence Analysis: An Assessment

Key Terms

Further Readings

CHAPTER 7 β€’ Counterintelligence
Internal Safeguards

External Indicators and Counterespionage

Problems in Counterintelligence

Leaks

Economic Espionage

National Security Letters

Conclusion

Key Terms

Further Readings

CHAPTER 8 β€’ Covert Action
The Decision-Making Process

The Range of Covert Actions

Issues in Covert Action

Assessing Covert Action

Key Terms

Further Readings

CHAPTER 9 β€’ The Role of the Policy Maker
The U.S. National Security Policy Process

Who Wants What?

The Intelligence Process: Policy and Intelligence

Key Term

Further Readings

CHAPTER 10 β€’ Oversight and Accountability
Executive Oversight Issues

Congressional Oversight

Issues in Congressional Oversight

Internal Dynamics of Congressional Oversight

The Courts

Conclusion

Key Terms

Further Readings

CHAPTER 11 β€’ The Intelligence Agenda: Nation-States
The Primacy of the Soviet Issue

The Emphasis on Soviet Military Capabilities

The Emphasis on Statistical Intelligence

The β€œComfort” of a Bilateral Relationship

Collapse of the Soviet Union

Intelligence and the Soviet Problem

The Current Nation-State Issue

Key Terms

Further Readings

CHAPTER 12 β€’ The Intelligence Agenda: Transnational Issues
U.S. National Security Policy and Intelligence After the Cold War

Intelligence and the New Priorities

Cyberspace

Terrorism

Proliferation

Narcotics

Economics

Demographics

Health and the Environment

Peacekeeping Operations

Support to the Military

Conclusion

Key Terms

Further Readings

CHAPTER 13 β€’ Ethical and Moral Issues in Intelligence
General Moral Questions

Issues Related to Collection and Covert Action

Analysis-Related Issues

Oversight-Related Issues

Whistle-Blowers

The Media

Conclusion

Further Readings

CHAPTER 14 β€’ Intelligence Reform
The Purpose of Reform

Issues in Intelligence Reform

Conclusion

Key Terms

Further Readings

CHAPTER 15 β€’ Foreign Intelligence Services
Britain

China

France

Israel

Russia

Other Services

Other Services in Brief

Conclusion

Further Readings

Appendix 1. Additional Bibliographic Citations and Websites

Appendix 2. Major Intelligence Reviews or Proposals

Author Index

Subject Index

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