National Insecurity: U.S. Intelligence After the Cold WarCraig Eisendrath Temple University Press, 28 nov. 2000 - 240 sidor A drastic reform of intelligence activities is long overdue. The Cold War has been over for ten years. No country threatens this nation's existence. Yet we still spend billions of dollars on covert action and espionage. In National Insecurity ten prominent experts describe, from an insider perspective, what went wrong with U.S. intelligence and what will be necessary to fix it. Drawing on their experience in government administration, research, and the foreign service, they propose a radical rethinking of the United States' intelligence needs in the post-Cold War world. In addition, they offer a coherent and unified plan for reform that can simultaneously protect U. S. security and uphold the values of our democratic system. As we now know, even during the Cold War, when intelligence was seen as a matter of life and death, our system served us badly. It provided unreliable information, which led to a grossly inflated military budget, as it wreaked havoc around the world, supporting corrupt regimes, promoting the drug trade, and repeatedly violating foreign and domestic laws. Protected by a shroud of secrecy, it paid no price for its mistakes. Instead it grew larger and more insulated every year. Taking into consideration our strategic interests abroad as well as the price of covert operations in dollars, in reliability, and in good will, every American taxpayer can be informed by and will want to read this book. National Insecurity is essential for readers interested in contemporary political issues, international relations, U.S. history, public policy issues, foreign policy, intelligence reform, and political science. |
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... clandestine means , and to what extent covert action is in the interests of the United States . We need to weigh the enor mous price of U.S. intelligence operations , not only in terms of dollars but in terms of the human suffering they ...
... clandestine means , and to what extent covert action is in the interests of the United States . We need to weigh the enor mous price of U.S. intelligence operations , not only in terms of dollars but in terms of the human suffering they ...
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... clandestine service , was convicted of espionage and jailed for sell- ing secrets to the Russians and exposing scores of new operations offi- cers . In May 1997 , the New York Times reported that the CIA had admitted intentionally ...
... clandestine service , was convicted of espionage and jailed for sell- ing secrets to the Russians and exposing scores of new operations offi- cers . In May 1997 , the New York Times reported that the CIA had admitted intentionally ...
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... clandestine operations should play the same prominent role in U.S. foreign policy . The end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union clearly demand a reexamination . Covert action and even clandestine collection can ...
... clandestine operations should play the same prominent role in U.S. foreign policy . The end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union clearly demand a reexamination . Covert action and even clandestine collection can ...
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... clandestine activities - both covert action and , to a lesser extent , clandestine collection - grew out of an exaggerated notion of the threat . to our security during the Cold War . The sudden and unexpected collapse of the Warsaw ...
... clandestine activities - both covert action and , to a lesser extent , clandestine collection - grew out of an exaggerated notion of the threat . to our security during the Cold War . The sudden and unexpected collapse of the Warsaw ...
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... clandestine operations . Despite recent problems and scandals in the clandestine services , the reports introduce no new thinking on clandes- tine operations . In fact , they endorse increased spending for covert action and a global ...
... clandestine operations . Despite recent problems and scandals in the clandestine services , the reports introduce no new thinking on clandes- tine operations . In fact , they endorse increased spending for covert action and a global ...
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3 Too Many Spies Too Little Intelligence | 45 |
4 CIAForeign Service Relations | 61 |
The Blowback Problem | 76 |
US National Security and the New Openness Movement | 92 |
Narcotics as Fallout From the CIAs Covert Wars | 118 |
Priorities Managerial Changes and Funding | 172 |
10 Whos Watching the Store? ExecutiveBranch and Congressional Surveillance | 190 |
Conclusions | 212 |
Selected Bibliography | 223 |
About The Center for International Policy | 227 |
About the Contributors | 231 |
Index | 233 |
The NSA the NRO and NIMA | 149 |
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National Insecurity: U.S. Intelligence After the Cold War Craig Eisendrath Begränsad förhandsgranskning - 2000 |
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