National Security Intelligence - Loch K Johnson

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Résumé :
About the Author??
List of Illustrations
Abbreviations?
Acknowledgments
Preface to the Third Edition: Roadmap to a Hidden World????
1. National Security Intelligence: The First Line of Defense????
2. Intelligence Collection: Global Spying
3. Intelligence Analysis: Understanding World Affairs?
4. Covert Action: Secret Attempts to Shape History????
5. Counterintelligence: Guarding the Democracies
6. Safeguards against the Abuse of Secret Power?
7. National Security Intelligence: Hidden Shield and Sword of the Democracies
Notes???
Suggested Readings
Appendix??????????????????????????? ?
Index...

Biographie:
why some intelligence officers become traitors against their own countries by spying on behalf of foreign regimes...

Sommaire:
National security intelligence is a vast, complex and intriguing topic, made doubly hard for citizens to understand because of the thick veils of secrecy that surround it.

In the third edition of his authoritative introduction to the field, world-renowned intelligence expert Loch K. Johnson guides readers skilfully through this shadowy side of government.?Drawing on over forty years of experience studying intelligence agencies and their activities, he explains the three primary missions of intelligence, before addressing the wider dilemmas of accountability posed by the existence of secret government organizations embedded in open, democratic societies.

Recent developments examined in this new edition include the dysfunctional relationship between the White House and America's secret agencies and fresh threats to democratic societies posed by authoritarian regimes. The new edition also offers, in two separate chapters, an expanded exploration of intelligence collection and analysis as well as new insights into covert action, from the use of propaganda and political operations to the overthrow of governments and assassination plots against foreign leaders. Throughout its pages, the book unpacks the ethical dilemmas of secret activities in the quest of global political and military objectives. It also gets to grips with the inevitable mistakes that are made in assessing world events...