Fixing intelligence: for a more secure America
"William Odom is the highest-ranking member of the United States Intelligence Community ever to write a book outlining fundamental restructuring of this vast network of agencies, technology, and human agents. In the wake of 9/11, Odom has revised and updated a powerful critique he wrote several years ago for staffs of the U.S. congressional committee overseeing the vast American intelligence bureaucracy. His recommendations for revamping this essential component of American security are now ava…
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- Full title :Fixing intelligence : for a more secure America / William E. Odom.
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"William Odom is the highest-ranking member of the United States Intelligence Community ever to write a book outlining fundamental restructuring of this vast network of agencies, technology, and human agents. In the wake of 9/11, Odom has revised and updated a powerful critique he wrote several years ago for staffs of the U.S. congressional committee overseeing the vast American intelligence bureaucracy. His recommendations for revamping this essential component of American security are now available for general readers as well as for policymakers."--Jacket.
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- Publication Date:©2003.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Yale University Press
- Place of Publication:New Haven
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2003.
The Physical Object
- Description:xli, 230 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0300099762, 9780300099768
- oclc:ocm50670118
- LC Classification:UB251.U5
- Dewey Decimal:355.3/432/0973
Table of Contents
Why intelligence reform? -- Essential dogma and useful buzzwords -- Making dollars yield useful intelligence -- The world of military intelligence -- Listening to learn : signals intelligence -- Looking to see : imagery intelligence -- Spying to know : human intelligence -- Spying on spies : counterintelligence -- Conclusion : what it all means. Appendix. Intelligence organizations and the intelligence process.
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