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Breakdown: How America's Intelligence Failures Led to September 11
by Bill Gertz.
Best-selling author and award-winning investigative reporter Bill Gertz taps his inside sources in the Pentagon and the CIA to track the path of terrorism and terrorists in the United States. Gertz tells us who knew what-and how our military and intelligence agencies and officials had information that could have prevented September 11.
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Intelligence : From Secrets to Policy
by Mark M. Lowenthal.
Everything readers need to know about intelligence - what it is, how it is created, and its role in policy formation - is included in this sweeping view of the intelligence community's makeup, history, function, and often controversial standing.
Combining a thematic framework with narrative history, the author offers concrete examples from intelligence as practiced in the U.S., ever mindful of the difficult choices present in intelligence collection.
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The U.S. Intelligence Community
by Jeffrey T. Richelson.
This book provides a detailed overview of America's vast intelligence empire-its organizations, its operations (from spies on the ground to satellites thousands of miles in space), and its management structure. Relying on a multitude of sources, including hundreds of official documents, it provides an up-to-date picture of the U.S. intelligence community that will provide support to policymakers and military operations into the next century.
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Intelligence in War: Knowledge of the Enemy from Napoleon to Al-Qaeda
by John Keegan.
In fiction, the spy is a glamorous figure whose secrets make or break peace, but, historically, has intelligence really been a vital step to military victories? In this breakthrough study, the preeminent war historian John Keegan goes to the heart of a series of important conflicts to develop a powerful argument about military intelligence.
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Inside the CIA/Revealing the Secrets of the World's Most Powerful Spy Agency
by Ronald Kessler.
Employs material taken from extensive research and hundreds of interviews to trace the CIA's evolution over the last fifteen years, describing its failures and successes.
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The Puzzle Palace : A Report on America's Most Secret Agency
by James Bamford.
In 1947, the governments of the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand signed a secret treaty in which they agreed to cooperate in matters of signals intelligence. In effect, the governments agreed to pool their geographic and technological assets in order to listen in on the electronic communications of China, the Soviet Union, and other Cold War bad guys.
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Body of Secrets : Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency
by James Bamford.
James Bamford, bestselling author of The Puzzle Palace, has written a fascinating, unrestricted, and controversial look into the secretive, powerful, and massive National Security Agency.
This scrupulously documented account of the NSA’s tireless hunt for intelligence dissects an organization that monitors enemies and allies alike–a leviathan whose influence has both prevented and provoked world conflict. Relying on testimony and documents never meant for the public eye, Bamford reveals espionage activities and profiles the commanders and the soldiers responsible for the covert activities performed by this clandestine agency. A major work of history and investigative journalism.
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See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism
by Robert Baer.
In See No Evil, one of the CIA’s top field officers of the past quarter century recounts his career running agents in the back alleys of the Middle East. In the process, Robert Baer paints a chilling picture of how terrorism works on the inside and provides compelling evidence about how Washington politics sabotaged the CIA’s efforts to root out the world’s deadliest terrorists.
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