Intelligence and National Security: the Secret World of Spies: An Anthology » (2nd Edition)

Loch K. Johnson is Regents Professor and Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Department of International Affairs at the University of Georgia.

James J. Wirtz is Professor and Chairman of the Department of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California.

The second edition of Johnson and Wirtz's anthology provides a comprehensive set of readings in the field of intelligence studies. The book spans a wide range of topics, from how the United States gathers and interprets information collected around the world to comparisons of the American intelligence system with the secret agencies of other nations.

The text addresses a wide range of material including: (1) the meaning of strategic intelligence; (2) methods of intelligence collection; (3) intelligence analysis; (4) the danger of intelligence politicization; (5) relationships between intelligence officers and the policymakers they serve; (6) covert action; (7) counterintelligence; (8) accountability and civil liberties; (9) the implications of the major intelligence failures in 2001 and 2002 regarding, respectively, the terrorist attacks against the United States and the faulty estimates about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq; and (10) intelligence as practiced in other nations.

New to this edition:
* A review of the state of intelligence research literature
* An interview with former CIA director Richard Helms
* The early development of U.S. satellite surveillance
* The role of intelligence leaks in the federal government
* Improving relations between the producers and consumers of intelligence
* The Senate investigation of the Ames spying scandal in the CIA
* NSA warrantless wiretaps
* Intelligence mistakes leading up to the 9/11 attack
* Intelligence failures in the faulty predictions of WMDs in Iraq
* Institutional conflicts that contributed to 9/11 failures
* The British intelligence failures regarding WMDs in Iraq

*=New to this edition
Part I. Intelligence in the United States: An Introduction
1. The Evolution of the U.S. Intelligence Community—A Historical Overview, Phyllis Provost McNeil
* 2. The Study of Intelligence in Theory and Practice, Len Scott and Peter Jackson
* 3. A Conversation with Richard Helms, a Director of Central Intelligence, Loch K. Johnson
Part II. Intelligence Collection
4. CIA and Its Discontents, Patrick R. Riley
5. Re-examining Problems and Prospects in U.S. Imagery Intelligence, John M. Diamond
* 6. Satellite Surveillance, William E. Burrows
7. The Time of Troubles: The U.S. National Security Agency in the Twenty-First Century, Matthew M. Aid
8. CIA's Strategic Intelligence in Iraq, Richard L. Russell
Part III. Intelligence Analysis
9. Analysis, War, and Decision: Why Intelligence Failures Are Inevitable, Richard K. Betts
10. Open-Source Intelligence, Robert D. Steele
11. A Policymaker's Perspective on Intelligence Analysis, Robert D. Blackwill and Jack Davis
12. Intelligence Estimates and the Decision-Maker, Shlomo Gazit
13. Early Warning Versus Concept: The Case of the Yom Kippur War (1973), Ephraim Kahana
Part IV. The Danger of Intelligence Politicization
14. The Politicization of Intelligence, Harry Howe Ransom
15. Intelligence to Please? The Order of Battle Controversy During the Vietnam War, James J. Wirtz
* 16. Public Intelligence, Glenn Hastadt
Part V. Intelligence and the Policymaker
17. Intelligence and National Action, Michael Herman
18. Tribal Tongues: Intelligence Consumers, Intelligence Producers, Mark M. Lowenthal
* 19. The Need for Policy Guidance, Aspin-Brown Commission
Part VI: Covert Action
20. Interfering With Civil Society: CIA and KGB Covert Political Action During the Cold War, Kevin A. O'Brien
21. Covert Action: Swampland of American Foreign Policy, Senator Frank Church
22. Covert Action Can Be Just, James A. Barry
Part VII. Counterintelligence
23. Cold War Spies: Why They Spied and How They Got Caught, Stan A. Taylor and Daniel Snow
* 24. Treachery Inside the CIA, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
25. Counterintelligence: The Broken Triad, Frederick L. Wettering
Part VIII. Accountability and Civil Liberties
26. Intelligence: Welcome to the American Government, Gregory F. Treverton
27. Unleashing the Rogue Elephant: September 11 and Letting the CIA Be the CIA, Frederick P. Hitz
28. Ethics and Intelligence, E. Drexel Godfrey, Jr.
29. Another System of Oversight Intelligence and the Rise of Judicial Intervention, Frederic F. Manget
30. Congressional Supervision of America's Secret Agencies: The Experience and Legacy of the Church Committee, Loch K. Johnson
* 31. Warrantless Wiretaps, Yale University School of Law Symposium (Alan Dershowitz, Senator Conrad Burns, John J. Donohue, David B. Rivkin, Jr., Dakota Rudesill, Stephen A. Vaden, Loch K. Johnson)
Part IX. Intelligence Activities in the Aftermath of the 9/11 and WMD Intelligence Failures
* 32. 9/11 Intelligence Failure, Kean Commission
* 33. WMD Intelligence Failure, Silberman-Robb Commission
* 34. Institutional Origins of the 9/11 Intelligence Failure, Amy B. Zegart
* 35. How U.S. Intelligence Failed, Loch K. Johnson
Part X. Intelligence in Other Lands
36. The Heritage and Future of the Russian Intelligence Community, Robert W. Pringle
37. Controlling Intelligence in New Democracies, Thomas C. Bruneau
* 38. The British Experience with Intelligence Failure, Butler Panel of Inquiry
U.S. Intelligence Leadership, 1947-2007
The Organization of the U.S. Intelligence Community
Key Intelligence Websites
Select Bibliography
Index