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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... defense of arrested Sol- idarity leaders and for fines imposed on illegal publications . " In 1983 , the CIA engaged in unusual cooperation with the government of Iran to crush the underground communist Tudeh party . Using infor- mation ...
... defense of arrested Sol- idarity leaders and for fines imposed on illegal publications . " In 1983 , the CIA engaged in unusual cooperation with the government of Iran to crush the underground communist Tudeh party . Using infor- mation ...
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... Defense , which is now responsible for all analysis of satellite imagery , assigned a low priority to all political - military issues in South Asia . As a result , there was insufficient satellite or clandestine col- lection on a ...
... Defense , which is now responsible for all analysis of satellite imagery , assigned a low priority to all political - military issues in South Asia . As a result , there was insufficient satellite or clandestine col- lection on a ...
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... defense HUMINT service to create a comprehensive organization for espionage . The effect would be an even stronger clandestine capability , less susceptible to congressional oversight . The fact that the CIA passed to several U.S. ...
... defense HUMINT service to create a comprehensive organization for espionage . The effect would be an even stronger clandestine capability , less susceptible to congressional oversight . The fact that the CIA passed to several U.S. ...
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... Defense Department , to end covert military intervention , and to discuss a ban on covert action in peacetime . If the capability for covert military action is deemed essential for U.S. security in wartime , that func- tion would be ...
... Defense Department , to end covert military intervention , and to discuss a ban on covert action in peacetime . If the capability for covert military action is deemed essential for U.S. security in wartime , that func- tion would be ...
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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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