1st Edition

Intelligence Analysis and Assessment

Edited By David Charters, Stuart Farson, Glenn P. Hastedt Copyright 1996
240 Pages
by Routledge

236 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

These essays cover: assessment systems now in place in Britain, the USA, Germany and Australia; the bureaucratic dynamics of analysis and assessment; the changing ground in intelligence; and the impact of new technologies and modes of communication on intelligence gathering and analysis.

Introduction: shifting paradigms and shifting gears - a perspective on why there is no post-Cold War intelligence agenda, Alan E. Goodman. National assessment systems: assessment machinery - British and American models, Michael Herman; the US Government's experience with intelligence analyses - pluses and minuses, Harold P. Ford; the German analysis and assessment system, Harald Nielsen; national intelligence assessment - Australia's experience, A.D. McLennan. The producer/user interface: American presidents and their intelligence communities, Christopher Andrew; organizational politics and the development of Britain's intelligence producer/consumer interface, Philip H.J. Davies; intelligence analyst/manager relations at the CIA, John A. Gentry. New analytical priorities: proliferation and arms control, Paula L. Scalingi; analysis and assessment for peacekeeping operations, Sir David Ramsbotham; security intelligence, the national interest and the global environment, Simon Dalby. The open source revolution: intelligence analysis in the age of electronic dissemination, Peter Sharfman; private enterprise intelligence - its potential contribution to national security, Robert David Steele.

Biography

Charters, David; Farson, Stuart; Hastedt, Glenn P.