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Sharpening strategic intelligence
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ISBN: 9780511509902 9780521878159 9780521702379 0511289553 9780511289552 9780511290152 0511290152 0511509901 0521878152 0521702372 1107172500 1280916966 9786610916962 0511321708 0511288239 0511288913 Year: 2007 Publisher: Cambridge New York Cambridge University Press

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This book critically examines the weaknesses of American intelligence led by the Central Intelligence Agency in informing presidential decision making on issues of war and peace. It evaluates the CIA's strategic intelligence performance during the Cold War and post-Cold War periods as a foundation for examining the root causes of intelligence failures surrounding the September 11th attacks and assessments of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs in the run up to the Iraq War. The book probes these intelligence failures, which lie in the CIA's poor human intelligence collection and analysis practices. The book argues that none of the post-9/11 intelligence reforms have squarely addressed these root causes of strategic intelligence failure and it recommends measures for redressing these dangerous vulnerabilities in American security.


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The CIA and the politics of US Intelligence Reform
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ISBN: 1316952541 1316953432 1316954323 1316957888 1316941310 1316955214 1107187400 1316638065 1316947203 Year: 2017 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Examining the political foundations of American intelligence policy, this book develops a new theory of intelligence adaptation to explain the success or failure of major reform efforts since World War II. Durbin draws on careful case histories of the early Cold War, the Nixon and Ford administrations, the first decade after the Cold War, and the post-9/11 period, looking closely at the interactions among Congress, executive branch leaders, and intelligence officials. These cases demonstrate the significance of two factors in the success or failure of reform efforts: the level of foreign policy consensus in the system, and the ability of reformers to overcome the information advantages held by intelligence agencies. As these factors ebb and flow, windows of opportunity for reform open and close, and different actors and interests come to influence reform outcomes. Durbin concludes that the politics of US intelligence frequently inhibit effective adaptation, undermining America's security and the civil liberties of its citizens.


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The CIA and the pursuit of security : history, documents and contexts
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ISBN: 147442886X 1474485049 1474428843 Year: 2020 Publisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press,


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African literature and the CIA : networks of authorship and publishing
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ISBN: 1108663222 1316997707 1108725546 Year: 2020 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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During the period of decolonisation in Africa, the CIA subsidised a number of African authors, editors and publishers as part of its anti-communist covert propaganda strategy. Managed by two front organisations, the Congress of Cultural Freedom and the Farfield Foundation, its Africa programme stretched across the continent, with hubs in Ibadan, Kampala, Nairobi, Cape Town and Johannesburg. This Element unravels the hidden networks and associations underpinning African literary publishing in the 1960s; it investigates the success of the CIA in disrupting and infiltrating African literary magazines and publishing firms, and determines the extent to which new circuits of cultural and literary power emerged. Based on new archival evidence relating to the Transcription Centre, The Classic and The New African, it includes case studies of Wole Soyinka, Nat Nakasa and Bessie Head, which assess how their literary careers were influenced by these transnational literary institutions, and their response to these interventions.

Unholy wars : Afghanistan, America, and international terrorism
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ISBN: 0745313280 Year: 1999 Publisher: Sterling, Va. London Pluto Press

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Acid dreams : the complete social history of LSD : the CIA, the sixties and beyond
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ISBN: 0802130623 Year: 1992 Publisher: New York, NY : Grove press,

State of war : the secret history of the CIA and the Bush administration.
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ISBN: 0743270665 9780743270663 Year: 2006 Publisher: New York (N.Y.) Free Press

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