Inside CIA's Private World

Inside CIA's Private World

Einband:
Kartonierter Einband
EAN:
9780300072648
Untertitel:
Declassified Articles from the Agency`s Internal Journal, 1955-1992
Genre:
Geschichte
Autor:
H. Bradford Westerfield
Herausgeber:
Yale University Press
Anzahl Seiten:
512
Erscheinungsdatum:
25.08.1997
ISBN:
978-0-300-07264-8

Klappentext
This engrossing book presents the most interesting articles from STUDIES IN INTELLIGENCE--a previously classified in-house Central Intelligence Agency journal that was for CIA eyes only--and provides insights into CIA strategies and into events in which the organization was involved. 26 illustrations.

Zusammenfassung
Since the 1950s, the Central Intelligence Agency has published an in-house journal, "Studies in Intelligence". This book, which presents the most interesting articles from the journal, provides revealing insights into CIA strategies and into events in which the organization was involved.

Inhalt
Part 1 Imagery Intelligence Collection: DC Power and Cooling Towers; The Unidentifieds. Part 2 Overt Human Intelligence Collection: The Interpreter as Agent; Obstacle Course for Attaches; Soviet Reality Sans Potemkin. Part 3 Clandestine Human Intelligence Collection: Techniques of Domestic Intelligence Collection; The Elicitation Interview; Psychology of Treason; The Practice of Prophet; Catch-as-Catch-Can Operations. Part 4 Humint and its Consumers: The Collector's Role in Evaluation; The Reports Officer: Issues of Quality; Clandestinity and Current Intelligence; The Not-So-Secret War, or How State-CIA Squabbling Hurts US Intelligence; Assessing DDO Human Source Reporting. Part 5 The Analysis Function: What Basic Intelligence Seeks to do; Do You Really Need More Information?; Basic Psychology for Intelligence Analysts; The Hazards of Single-Outcome Forecasting; Bayes' Theorem for Intelligence Analysts; The Sino-Soviet Border Dispute - A Comparison of the Conventional and Bayesian Methods for Intelligence Warning; Factions and Policon: New Ways to Analyse Politics; Scientific and Technical Intelligence Analysis; Economic Intelligence in CIA. Part 6 Analysis and its Consumers: Cognitive Biases: Problems in Hindsight Analysis; Dealing with Intelligence-Policy Disconnects; New Links Between Intelligence and Policy; UNCTAD V: Intelligence Support at a Major International Economic Conference. Part 7 Counterespionage: Nosenko - Five Paths to Judgement; Defence Against Communist Interrogation Organizations; Observations on the Double Agent; The Case of Major X. Appendices: The Next Most Valuable Articles; Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Definitions.


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