The Cia And The U.s. Intelligence System (Westview Library of Federal Departments, Agencies, and Systems)

Foreign policy—including economic policy and national security policy—and the appropriate planning, decisionmaking, and execution of that policy depend upon foreign intelligence, which must be collected on a global scale, checked, compared, sifted, analyzed, and coordinated. The collection, analysis, and delivery of this body of information require "Our understanding of the national intelligence system is often incomplete. This book by former CIA veteran Scott Breckinridge explains the complexities of the system, with a concentration on the National Security (the system's center) and the Central Intellienge Agency (its main coordinating instrument and also a principal arm)."-- Publisher description