432 Pages
by
Routledge
432 Pages
by
Routledge
404 Pages
by
Routledge
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This is a major survey and assessment of U.S. intelligence activities over the last forty-five years. It offers a systematic and authoritative evaluation of American intelligence-gathering machinery: how it has been used, misused, and on occasion, ignored. The book has been hailed as "a splendid work, reflective and penetrating" by James R. Schlesinger; while Zbigniew Brzezinski describes Laqueur... Read more
Introduction; 1: The Anatomy of Intelligence; 1: The Production of Intelligence; 2: Economic and Scientific Intelligence; 2: A History of Intelligence Performance; 3: Intelligence and Its Customers; 4: Early Experiences and Later-Day Trials; 5: The Missile Gap Controversy and the Cuban Missile Crisis; 6: Vietnam and the Case of the Missing Missiles; 3: Intelligence Abroad; 7: Secret Services in Open Societies; 8: The Antagonists: KGB and GRU; 4: Theories of Intelligence; 9: The Causes of Failure; 10: Craft or Science?; 5: Conclusion; 11: The Future of Intelligence
Biography
Walter Laqueur
