By Loch K. Johnson
While numerous wonderful texts on intelligence were released over the last decade, there's no complementary set of volumes that addresses the topic in a entire demeanour for the final reader. This significant set explains how the 16 significant U.S. intelligence organisations function, how they acquire info from around the globe, the issues they face in offering extra perception into this uncooked info in the course of the thoughts of study, and the problems that accompany the dissemination of intelligence to policymakers in a well timed demeanour. additional, in a democracy it is very important have responsibility over mystery organizations and to contemplate a few moral benchmarks in accomplishing clandestine operations.
In addition to intelligence assortment and research and the topic of intelligence responsibility, this set addresses the demanding situations of counterintelligence and counterterrorism, besides covert motion. additional, it presents comparisons concerning the a variety of methods to intelligence followed by means of different international locations world wide. Its 5 volumes underscore the background, the politics, and the rules wanted for an effective comprehension of ways the U.S. intelligence neighborhood capabilities within the smooth age of globalization, characterised by way of a fast circulate of data throughout nationwide boundaries.
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105. Kermit Roosevelt, Countercoup: The Struggle for the Control of Iran (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1981); David Wise and Thomas B. Ross, The Invisible Government (New York: Random House, 1964). 106. Robert Baer, See No Evil (New York: Crown, 2003); Harry Rositzke, The CIA’s Secret Operations: Espionage, Counterespionage, and Covert Action (New York: Reader’s Digest Press, 1977); Michael Scheuer, Imperial Hubris (Washington, DC: Brassey’s, 2004); and Theodore G. Shackley, The Third Option: An American View of Counter-insurgency Operations (New York: Reader’s Digest Press).
More often, the actual processing period to determine whether a document will be released lasts months, even years. Since 1996, all federal agencies have been required to report statistics about their handling of FOIA requests. 32 And of course, the median means that half of these requests took longer than 605 days to resolve—in some cases, much longer. According to a 2003 audit by the National Security Archive at George Washington University, the oldest pending FOIA requests were filed during the Cold War.
Loch K. Johnson, ‘‘Bricks and Mortar for a Theory of Intelligence,’’ Comparative Strategy 22 (Spring 2003), pp. 1–28, and America’s Secret Power: The CIA in a Democratic Society (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989). 58. S. Intelligence Community: An Ethnographic Study (Washington, DC: Center for the Study of Intelligence, CIA, 2005). 59. David Kahn, ‘‘An Historical Theory of Intelligence,’’ Intelligence and National Security 16 (2001), pp. 79–92. 60. Walter Laqueur, A World of Secrets: The Uses and Limits of Intelligence (New York: Basic, 1985).