National Security Intelligence

Auteur

Loch K. Johnson is Regents Professor Emeritus of International Affairs at the University of Georgia. He is the author of over 200 articles and thirty books on US national security, including National Security Intelligence, 3rd edition forthcoming from Polity in 2024. He served as special assistant to the chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (1975-76); as a staff aide on the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee (1976-77); as the first staff director of the Subcommittee on Intelligence Oversight, US House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (1977-79); and as special assistant to Chairman Les Aspin of the Aspin-Brown Presidential Commission on the Roles and Missions of Intelligence (1995-96). He has held the office of secretary for the American Political Science Association and president of the International Studies Association (ISA), South. In 2001, Professor Johnson led the founding of the School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA) at the University of Georgia.

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"National security intelligence is a vast, complex, and intriguing topic, made doubly hard for citizens to understand because of the thick veils of secrecy that surround it. In this third edition of his authoritative introduction to the field, world-renowned intelligence expert Loch K. Johnson guides readers skilfully through this shadowy side of government."--

Contenu

About the Author
List of Illustrations
Abbreviations
Acknowledgments
Preface to the Third Edition: Roadmap to a Hidden World

1. National Security Intelligence: The First Line of Defense
2. Intelligence Collection: Global Spying
3. Intelligence Analysis: Understanding World Affairs
4. Covert Action: Secret Attempts to Shape History
5. Counterintelligence: Guarding the Democracies
6. Safeguards against the Abuse of Secret Power
7. National Security Intelligence: Hidden Shield and Sword of the Democracies
   Notes
   Suggested Readings
   Appendix
   Index