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Intelligence : from secrets to policy /

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Mark M. Lowenthal's trusted guide is the go-to resource for understanding how the intelligence community's history, structure, procedures and functions affect policy decisions. In this eighth edition, the author addresses cyber security and cyber intelligence throughout, expands the covera...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lowenthal, Mark M. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Thousand Oaks, California : SAGE/CQ Press, [2020].
Edition:Eighth edition.
Subjects:
Intelligence service > United States > Planning.
Intelligence service > United States > Forecasting.
Table of Contents:
  • What Is "Intelligence"?
  • The Development of U.S. Intelligence
  • The U.S. Intelligence Community
  • The Intelligence Process - A Macro Look: who does what for whom?
  • Collection and the Collection Disciplines
  • Analysis
  • Counterintelligence
  • Covert action
  • The role of the policy maker
  • Oversight and accountability
  • The intelligence agenda, nation-states
  • The intelligence agenda, transnational issues
  • Ethical and moral issues in intelligence
  • Intelligence reform
  • Foreign intelligence services.