The intelligence establishment / Harry Howe Ransom.

• Preface -- I. Intelligence in the space age -- Intelligence: key to decision -- Intelligence and policy planning -- Defining intelligence -- The knowable and the unknowable -- II. The nature of intelligence -- Categories of intelligence -- Steps in the process -- Procuring raw intelligence -- Sources -- Recent developments -- Traditional American misgivings -- Overt collection methods -- Functional categories -- Processing the data -- Evaluation and analysis -- Dissemination of intelligence -- III. United States intelligence -- historical background -- Intelligence: an ancient function -- American neglect of intelligence -- World War I -- World War II -- The impetus of Pearl Harbor -- The beginnings of central intelligence -- Office of Strategic Services -- Postwar reorganization -- Centralization vs. confederation -- The compromise -- IV. The Central Intelligence Agency : basic functions -- Expansion and functions -- CIA's statutory functions -- CIA's size and role -- The coordinating function -- Overseas political action -- The forecasting function -- The coordination function and its limits -- The importance of CIA directorship -- V. The intelligence community: other principal members -- Armed Service Joint Intelligence -- The Defense Intelligence Agency -- The Army -- Army Intelligence Organization -- National intelligence surveys -- Special publications -- The Navy -- Navy Intelligence Organization -- The Air Force -- Air Force Intelligence Organization -- National Security Agency -- The Department of State -- State Department controversy -- State Department Intelligence Organization -- The FBI -- Atomic Energy Commission -- The task of the CIA -- VI. The intelligence end product: the national estimate -- Producing national estimates -- The U.S. Intelligence Board -- The Watch Committee and Indications Center -- VII. Surveillance by Congress -- The inevitable executive-legislative conflict -- Congress and the CIA -- The Mansfield Resolution of 1956 -- Arguments for a joint committee -- Arguments against a joint committee -- Debate on the Senate floor -- The issue debated again in 1966 -- VIII. The British intelligence system -- Historical background -- Development after World War II -- Traditions of secrecy -- The role of the press -- The "D-notice" System -- Evaluation of the Secret Service -- IX. Problems of the intelligence bureaucracy -- Effective decision making -- The problem of organization -- Consequences of federation -- Intelligence credibility -- Mistaken estimates -- Great expectations -- The personnel problem -- Overseeing the intelligence establishment -- Public relations -- X. The "CIA problem" -- some conclusions -- Stereotypes of the intelligence system -- Interventionism added to intelligence role -- A storm of bad publicity -- Where did the CIA go wrong? -- Trauma over secret CIA subsidies -- Problems of policy, organization, and control -- Role of the press -- Can man survive technology -- Appendix A: Views on central intelligence by Allen W. Dulles -- Appendix B: CIA policy on public disclosure -- Appendix C: Authority of director of central intelligence clarified -- Appendix D: Report on CIA secret subsidies, 1967. 

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