Constructing Cassandra Reframing Intelligence Failure At The CIA 19472001
Publisher: Stanford University Press; Stanford Security Studies
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780804785808; 9780804793360
Description: The CIA was created in 1947 in large part to prevent another Pearl Harbor. On at least four dramatic occasions, the Agency failed at this task. There has been no shortage of studies to understand how such failures happened. Until now, however, none of the explanations proffered has been fully satisfying, and sometimes competing explanations have been mutually incompatible. In contrast, this book proposes a unified, coherent and rigorous theory of intelligence failure built on culture and identity.
Table of contents: title: Preface and Acknowledgments 	vii; title: Abbreviations 	ix; title: Introduction	1; title: 1	The Work of Intelligence 	17; title: 2	How the CIA Is Made 	38; title: 3	The Iranian Revolution 	80; title: 4	The Collapse of the USSR 	102; title: 5	The Cuban Missile Crisis 	135; title: 6	The Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001 	192; title: 7	The CIA and the Future of Intelligence 	234; title: Notes 	255; title: Bibliography 	335; title: Index 	361