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Secret Agencies: U.S.Intelligence in a Hostile World Book

Johnson, a former assistant to Defense Secretary Les Aspin and now a university professor, defends the U.S. intelligence networks from the charges of ineptitude that have followed embarrassments like the Aldrich Ames case and the rout of the CIA-backed Kurds in Iraq. He argues that the successes of the CIA and the intelligence community far outweigh such setbacks, and that even the failures are often laid at the wrong door: good intelligence has often been ignored by the upper (political) levels of the bureaucracy. He cites the analysis of Gorbachev's perestroika as an example, detailing the fight by the agency's Soviet experts to get the Director to accept that a significant change was underway. Read More

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    In this revealing assessment of America`s strategic intelligence agencies since World War II, Loch K. Johnson considers how, and how well, intelligence efforts have guarded and advanced the interests of the United States. Johnson looks at economic espionage, covert action, congressional monitoring, and America`s approach to intelligence compared with that of other nations. He concludes that intelligence agencies deserve our support, but also our scrutiny, and he offers ethical guidelines for intelligence gathering.

  • 0300066112
  • 9780300066111
  • LK Johnson
  • 1 November 1996
  • Yale University Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 282
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