IR 360: Intelligence and Intelligence Agencies
There is an increasingly rich literature on intelligence. The following are articles I have collected which may be of interest to students, particularly in doing the research project required as part of the course. Many of these readings are optional; others are part of the syllabus reading list.
Useful Texts (All are available in the
Leonard Library)
Richelson, Jeffrey A Century of Spies (New York, Oxford 1998)John Ranelagh The Agency:The
Rise and Decline of the CIA, (New York: Simon and Shuster, New
York 1996)
Loch Johnson America's Secret Power, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989)
Loch Johnson Secret Agencies: US
Intelligence in a Hostile World, (New
Haven: Yale University Press, 1996)
Abram Shulsky Silent Warfare, (New York: Brassey's Press, 1993)
Allan Goodman, Intelligence in the
Post-Cold War Era, from In From the Cold:
The Report of the Twentieth Century Fund Task Force on The Future
of U.S. Intelligence, (New York: Twentieth Century Fund Press,
1996)
The Need to Know,
Report of the Twentieth Century Fund Task Force on Covert Action
and American Democracy, (New York: Twentieth Century Fund, 1991)
Gregory F. Treverton, Covert Action: The
Limits of Intervention in the Postwar World,
(New York: Basic Books, 1987)
Roy Godson, Dirty Tricks or Trump Cards:
U.S. Covert Action and Counterintelligence
(New York: Brassey's: 1995)
Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Secrecy, The
American Experience:
(New Haven: Yale University Press (1998)
CIA Suggested Intelligence Bibliography
An Annotated Bibliography of Intelligence Muskegum University
The Central Intelligence Agency for many years has
published a scholarly "in-house" publication, Studies
in Intelligence. Usually issued quarterly,
it is --- alas --- classified, but for those fortunate to be
cleared and on the subscription list it is widely recognized as
an excellent view from the inside of American intelligence.
Fortunately, many articles have been declassified in recent years and can be found on the CIA's Center for the Study of Intelligence web site.
Articles from Studies in Intelligence, The Central
Intelligence Agency, 1947-1997
Russ
Travers, A Blueprint For Survival:The Coming Intelligence Failure
Frank
Watanabe, How To Succeed in the DI: Fifteen Axioms for
Intelligence Analysts
Robert
Blackwill, An Interview with a Consumer
L.
Britt Snider, Sharing Secrets With Lawmakers: Congress as a User
of Intelligence
Anonymous,
The Fall of Lima Site 85
Michael
Donley, Cornelius O'Leary, and John Montgomery Inside The White
House Situation Room
Kent Pekel,
Integrity, Ethics, and the CIA: The Need for Improvement
R.V. Jones,
Some Lessons in Intelligence
Anonymous,
Of Moles and Molehunters
James S. Van Wagenen, Critics and Defenders:A Review of
Congressional Oversight
Jack Davis
The Challenge of Managing Uncertainty: Paul Wolfowitz on
Intelligence Policy-Relations
Gus W. Weiss,Duping the Soviets
Operation Mincemeat