The Intelligence Establishment

CIAs historiske baggrund, dets udvikling, basale funktioner, medlemmer, omdømme, forhold til kongressen. Bogen indeholder også en kort gennemgang af det engelske efterretningsvæsen og til sidst en generel analyse og problematisering af beaukratiet indenfor efterretningsvæsen som sådan og endelig en konklusion. Preface -- I. Intelligence In The Space Age -- Intelligence: Key To Decision -- Intelligence And Policy Planning -- Defining Intelligence -- The Knowable And The Unknowable -- Ii. The Nature Of Intelligence -- Categories Of Intelligence -- Steps In The Process -- Procuring Raw Intelligence -- Sources -- Recent Developments -- Traditional American Misgivings -- Overt Collection Methods -- Functional Categories -- Processing The Data -- Evaluation And Analysis -- Dissemination Of Intelligence -- Iii. United States Intelligence - Historical Background -- Intelligence: An Ancient Function -- American Neglect Of Intelligence -- World War I -- World War Ii -- The Impetus Of Pearl Harbor -- The Beginnings Of Central Intelligence -- Office Of Strategic Services -- Postwar Reorganization -- Centralization Vs. Confederation -- The Compromise -- Iv. The Central Intelligence Agency : Basic Functions -- Expansion And Functions -- Cia's Statutory Functions -- Cia's Size And Role --^ The Coordinating Function -- Overseas Political Action -- The Forecasting Function -- The Coordination Function And Its Limits -- The Importance Of Cia Directorship -- V. The Intelligence Community: Other Principal Members -- Armed Service Joint Intelligence -- The Defense Intelligence Agency -- The Army -- Army Intelligence Organization -- National Intelligence Surveys -- Special Publications -- The Navy -- Navy Intelligence Organization -- The Air Force -- Air Force Intelligence Organization -- National Security Agency -- The Department Of State -- State Department Controversy -- State Department Intelligence Organization -- The Fbi -- Atomic Energy Commission -- The Task Of The Cia -- Vi. The Intelligence End Product: The National Estimate -- Producing National Estimates -- The U.s. Intelligence Board -- The Watch Committee And Indications Center -- Vii. Surveillance By Congress -- The Inevitable Executive-legislative Conflict -- Congress And The Cia --^ The Mansfield Resolution Of 1956 -- Arguments For A Joint Committee -- Arguments Against A Joint Committee -- Debate On The Senate Floor -- The Issue Debated Again In 1966 -- Viii. The British Intelligence System -- Historical Background -- Development After World War Ii -- Traditions Of Secrecy -- The Role Of The Press -- The D-notice System -- Evaluation Of The Secret Service -- Ix. Problems Of The Intelligence Bureaucracy -- Effective Decision Making -- The Problem Of Organization -- Consequences Of Federation -- Intelligence Credibility -- Mistaken Estimates -- Great Expectations -- The Personnel Problem -- Overseeing The Intelligence Establishment -- Public Relations -- X. The Cia Problem - Some Conclusions -- Stereotypes Of The Intelligence System -- Interventionism Added To Intelligence Role -- A Storm Of Bad Publicity -- Where Did The Cia Go Wrong? -- Trauma Over Secret Cia Subsidies -- Problems Of Policy, Organization, And Control -- Role Of The Press --^ Can Man Survive Technology -- Appendix A: Views On Central Intelligence By Allen W. Dulles -- Appendix B: Cia Policy On Public Disclosure -- Appendix C: Authority Of Director Of Central Intelligence Clarified -- Appendix D: Report On Cia Secret Subsidies, 1967. First Ed. Published In 1958 Under Title: Central Intelligence And National Security. Bibliography: P. 274-285. CONTENTS Preface CHAPTER I. Intelligence in the Space Age CHAPTER II. The Nature of Intelligence CHAPTER III. United States Intelligence: Historical Background CHAPTER IV. The Central Intelligence Agency: Basic Functions CHAPTER V. The Intelligence Community: Other Principal Members CHAPTER VI. Intelligence End Product: The National Estimate CHAPTER VII. Surveillance by Congress CHAPTER VIII. The British Intelligence System CHAPTER IX. Problems of the Intelligence Bureaucracy CHAPTER X. The “CIA Problem” Some Conclusions Appendices. Bibliography. Notes. Index Appendix A. Views on Central Intelligence of Allen W. Dulles, Director 1953–1961 Appendix B. CIA Policy on Public Disclosure Appendix C. Authority of Director of Central Intelligence Clarified Appendix D. Report on CIA Secret Subsidies, 1967 A Selected Bibliography Notes Index