Bombs, bugs, drugs, and thugs : intelligence and America's quest for security /

"Ranging widely over such controversial topics as the intelligence role of the United Nations and whether assassination should be a part of America's foreign policy, Loch Johnson here maps out a critical and prescriptive vision of the future of American intelligence."--Jacket

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Johnson, Loch K., 1942-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : New York University Press, Ã2000.
Subjects:
Intelligence service > United States.
TRUE CRIME > Espionage.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Intelligence.
Intelligence service.
United States.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Part I: An intelligence agenda for a new world
  • A planet bristling with bombs and missiles
  • Stocks and (James) Bonds: spies in the global marketplace
  • The greening of intelligence
  • Spies versis germs: a worldwide resurgence of bugs
  • Part II: Strategic intelligence: fissures in the first line of defense
  • The DCI and the eight-hundred-pound gorilla
  • Spending for spies
  • Sharing the intelligence burden
  • Part III: Smart intelligence
  • and accountable
  • More intelligent intelligence
  • Balancing liberty and security
  • Appendix: America's intelligence leadership, 1941-2000.

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