By Allan W. Dulles
If the specialists may possibly element to any unmarried ebook as a kick off point for realizing the topic of intelligence from the overdue 20th century to at the present time, that unmarried e-book will be Allen W. Dulles's The Craft of Intelligence. This vintage of spycraft is predicated on Allen Dulles's incomparable adventure as a diplomat, foreign legal professional, and America's prime intelligence officer. Dulles used to be a high-ranking officer of the CIA's predecessor--the workplace of Strategic Services--and was once current on the inception of the CIA, the place he served 8 of his ten years there as director. the following he sums up what he realized approximately intelligence from approximately a half-century of expertise in overseas affairs.In global warfare II his OSS brokers penetrated the German overseas place of work, labored with the anti-Nazi underground resistance, and tested contacts that led to the Nazi army quit in North Italy. below his path the CIA built either a committed corps of experts and a complete variety of recent intelligence units, from the U-2 high-altitude photographic airplane to minute digital listening and transmitting equipment.Dulles unearths a lot approximately how intelligence is accumulated and processed, and the way the ensuing estimates give a contribution to the formation of nationwide coverage. He discusses tools of surveillance, and the usefulness of defectors from adversarial international locations. His wisdom of Soviet espionage options is unmatched, and he explains how the Soviet country defense provider recruited operatives and planted "illegals" in overseas international locations. He spells out not just the innovations of contemporary espionage but additionally the philosophy and function of intelligence in a unfastened society threatened by means of international conspiracies.Dulles additionally addresses the Bay of Pigs incident, denying that the 1961 invasion used to be in keeping with a CIA estimate well known Cuban rebellion could happen. This account is enlivened with a wealth of private anecdotes. it's a ebook for readers who search wider figuring out of the contribution of intelligence to our nationwide safety.
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By this time the OSS was already deep in the task of "special services," a cover designation for secret intelligence and secret operations of every conceivable character among which the support of various anti-Nazi underground groups behind the enemy lines and covert preparations for the in39 vasion of North Africa were perhaps most significant. During 1943, elements of the OSS were at work on a world-wide basis, except for Latin America, where the FBI was operating, and parts of the Far Eastern Command, which General MacArthur had already pre-empted.
On General Washington's first morning in New York after the war was over, he stopped off rather conspicuously at Mulligan's house and, to the enormous surprise of Mulligan's neighbors, breakfasted with him. After that, the neighbors understood about Mulligan. He had obviously gleaned vital information from his talkative British military customers and managed to pass it on to the General, possibly via Townsend's network. Intelligence during the Revolution was by no means limited 31 to military espionage in the Colonies.
CIA abandoned this kind of compartmentalization, which so often leads to neither the right hand nor the left knowing what the other is doing. The most recent development in American intelligence has been a unification of the management of the various intelligence branches of the armed forces. In August, 1961, the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) was established under a directive issued by the Department of Defense. An outstanding Air Force officer, Lieutenant General Joseph F. 45 Carroll, was named as its first director.