National Insecurity: U.S. Intelligence After the Cold War

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Craig 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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Introduction
1
The Need for Intelligence
8
2 Espionage and Covert Action
23
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
Upphovsrätt

The NSA the NRO and NIMA
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Craig Eisendrath is Senior Fellow at the Center for International Policy in Washington, D.C. He has served as a U.S. Foreign Service Officer. CONTRIBUTORS: Roger Hilsman, Melvin A. Goodman, Robert E. White, Robert V. Kelley, Jack A. Blum, Kate Doyle, Alfred W. McCoy, Robert Dreyfuss, Richard A. Stubbing, Pat M. Holt, and the editor.

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