Intelligence: From Secrets to Policy
"Intelligence: From Secrets to Policyremains the best available introduction to the U.S. intelligence community and what it does. Clearly written, comprehensive, and critical when it should be, it offers students and interested citizens a holistic understanding of how specialized components and discrete missions contribute to a multifaceted enterprise designed to ensure that U.S. officials obtain the information and insights they need to make decisions affecting the security of our nation." --Thomas Fingar, Oksenberg-Rohlen Distinguished Fellow at Stanford University and former Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Analysis"This is the fifth edition of Mark Lowenthal's treatise (modestly described by him as an 'introductory text'--it is that but it is much more) on national security intelligence. It is lucid, comprehensive, critical where it needs to be, up to date almost to the minute, and in short an invaluable resource for anyone concerned with the subject of intelligence. It makes a bureaucratically, historically, and analytically complex subject intelligible. I know of no comparable work on intelligence." --Richard A. Posner, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit; author of Uncertain Shield"Mark Lowenthal'sIntelligenceis the classic textbook on the subject. But it is more than that and, especially in the new edition, its insight, clarity, and wisdom makes it invaluable to any student, scholar, or member of the concerned public." --Robert Jervis, Columbia University