The Cia And U.S. Intelligence System

This book by former CIA veteran Scott Breckinridge explains the complexities of the U.S. Intelligence system, with a concentration on the National Security Council (the system's center) and the Central Intelligence Agency. Foreign policy—including economic policy and national security policy—and the appropriate planning, decisionmaking, and execution of that policy depend upon foreign intelligence, which must be collected on a global scale, checked, compared, sifted, analyzed, and coordinated. The collection, analysis, and delivery of this body of information require