National Security Intelligence (eBook)
314 Seiten
Wiley (Verlag)
978-1-5095-1308-6 (ISBN)
National security intelligence is a vast, complex, and important topic, made doubly hard for citizens to understand because of the thick veils of secrecy that surround it.
In the second edition of his definitive introduction to the field, leading intelligence expert Loch K. Johnson guides readers skilfully through this shadowy side of government. Drawing on over forty years of experience studying intelligence agencies and their activities, he explains the three primary missions of intelligence: information collection and analysis, counterintelligence, and covert action, before moving on to explore the wider dilemmas posed by the existence of secret government organizations in open, democratic societies. Recent developments including the controversial leaks by the American intelligence official Edward J. Snowden, the U.S. Senate's Torture Report, and the ongoing debate over the use of drones are explored alongside difficult questions such as why intelligence agencies inevitably make mistakes in assessing world events; why some intelligence officers choose to engage in treason against their own country on behalf of foreign regimes; and how spy agencies can succumb to scandals -including highly intrusive surveillance against the very citizens they are meant to protect.
Comprehensively revised and updated throughout, National Security Intelligence is tailor-made to meet the interests of students and general readers who care about how nations shield themselves against threats through the establishment of intelligence organizations, and how they strive for safeguards to prevent the misuse of this secret power.
Loch K. Johnson is the Regents Professor of Public and International Affairs at the University of Georgia, as well as a Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor.
National security intelligence is a vast, complex, and important topic, made doubly hard for citizens to understand because of the thick veils of secrecy that surround it. In the second edition of his definitive introduction to the field, leading intelligence expert Loch K. Johnson guides readers skilfully through this shadowy side of government. Drawing on over forty years of experience studying intelligence agencies and their activities, he explains the three primary missions of intelligence: information collection and analysis, counterintelligence, and covert action, before moving on to explore the wider dilemmas posed by the existence of secret government organizations in open, democratic societies. Recent developments including the controversial leaks by the American intelligence official Edward J. Snowden, the U.S. Senate's Torture Report, and the ongoing debate over the use of drones are explored alongside difficult questions such as why intelligence agencies inevitably make mistakes in assessing world events; why some intelligence officers choose to engage in treason against their own country on behalf of foreign regimes; and how spy agencies can succumb to scandals -including highly intrusive surveillance against the very citizens they are meant to protect. Comprehensively revised and updated throughout, National Security Intelligence is tailor-made to meet the interests of students and general readers who care about how nations shield themselves against threats through the establishment of intelligence organizations, and how they strive for safeguards to prevent the misuse of this secret power.
Loch K. Johnson is the Regents Professor of Public and International Affairs at the University of Georgia, as well as a Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor.
* Contents
* About the Author
* List of Figures and Tables
* List of Abbreviations
* Preface: The Study of National Security Intelligence
* Acknowledgments
* 1 National Security Intelligence: The First Line of Defense
* 2 Intelligence Collection and Analysis: Knowing about the
World
* 3 Covert Action: Secret Attempts to Shape History
* 4 Counterintelligence: The Hunt for Moles
* 5 Safeguards against the Abuse of Secret Power
* 6 National Security Intelligence: Shield and Hidden Sword
of the Democracies
* Notes
* Suggested Readings
* Index
"The world of intelligence is myth-ridden in the popular imagination. Loch Johnson, one of the most eminent and experienced scholars on the subject, here supplies an excellent, compact, and readable introduction that makes the principal aspects of intelligence refreshingly intelligible to all."
--Richard K. Betts, Columbia University, author of Enemies of Intelligence
"Loch Johnson's 'National Security Intelligence' is a wonderful asset for those professors aiming to introduce students to the complexities, the dangers, and the importance of the U.S. intelligence establishment. The painful truth is that most Americans know very little about our government's intelligence agencies beyond what they have learned from movies, television shows, and lurid headlines. This book can work wonders in educating students (and indeed, ordinary citizens) seeking to understand intelligence. It is well-written, and manages to combine brevity with depth and nuance."
--David Barrett, Villanova University
Abbreviations
ATC | air traffic control |
BENS | Business Executives for National Security |
CA | covert action |
CAS | Covert Action Staff |
CASIS | Canadian Association of Security and Intelligence Studies |
CE | counterespionage |
CHAOS | cryptonym (codename) for CIA domestic spying operation |
CI | counterintelligence |
CIA | Central Intelligence Agency (the “Agency”) |
CIAB | Citizens’ Intelligence Advisory Board (proposed) |
CIG | Central Intelligence Group |
COCOM | combatant commander (Pentagon) |
COINTELPRO | FBI Counterintelligence Program |
comint | communications intelligence |
COS | Chief of Station (the top CIA officer in the field) |
CTC | Counterterrorism Center (CIA) |
D | Democrat |
DA | Directorate of Administration |
DBA | dominant battle field awareness |
DC | District of Columbia (Washington) |
DCI | Director of Central Intelligence |
DCIA or D/CIA | Director of the Central Intelligence Agency |
DDI | Deputy Director for Intelligence |
DDNI | Deputy Director of National Intelligence |
DDO | Deputy Director for Operations |
DEA | Drug Enforcement Administration |
DHS | Department of Homeland Security; also, Defense Humint Service (DoD) |
DI | Directorate of Intelligence (CIA) |
DIA | Defense Intelligence Agency |
DIAC | Defense Intelligence Agency Center |
DNC | Democratic National Committee |
DNI | Director of National Intelligence |
DO | Directorate of Operations (CIA), also known at times earlier in the CIA's history as the Clandestine Services and the National Clandestine Services |
DoD | Department of Defense |
DS | Directorate of Support |
DS&T | Directorate for Science and Technology (CIA) |
elint | electronic intelligence |
FBI | Federal Bureau of Investigation |
FISA | Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act |
FISA Court | Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court |
fisint | foreign instrumentation intelligence |
GAO | Government Accountability Office (U.S. Congress) |
geoint | geospatial intelligence |
GID | General Intelligence Directorate (the Jordanian intelligence service, also known as the Mukhabarat) |
GPS | Global Position Service |
GRU | Soviet Military Intelligence |
HPSCI | House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence |
humint | human intelligence (espionage assets) |
IC | Intelligence Community |
ICBM | intercontinental ballistic missile |
IG | Inspector General |
imint | imagery intelligence (photography) |
INR | Bureau of Intelligence and Research (Department of State) |
ints | intelligence collection methods (as in “sigint”) |
IOB | Intelligence Oversight Board |
IRBM | intermediate-range ballistic missile |
IRTPA | Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act (2004) |
ISA | Inter-Services Intelligence (the Pakistani intelligence service); also, International Studies Association |
ITT | International Telephone and Telegraph (an American corporation) |
I & W | indicators and warning |
JENNIFER | Codename for CIA Soviet submarine retrieval operation in the 1970s (also known as Project AZORIAN) |
KGB | Soviet Secret Police and Foreign Intelligence: Committee for State Security |
KJ | Key Judgment (NIE executive summary) |
KSM | Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the Al Qaeda terrorist said to have mastermined the 9/11 attacks |
MAGIC | Allied codebreaking operations against the Japanese in World War II |
masint | measurement and signatures intelligence |
MI5 | British Security Service |
MINARET | cryptonym for NSA warrantless telephone taps against Americans (pre-1975) |
MIP | Military Intelligence Program |
MI6 | Secret Intelligence Service (SIS – United Kingdom) |
MRBM | medium-range ballistic missile |
NCA | National Command Authority |
NCS | National Clandestine Service |
NCTC | National Counterterrorism Center |
NGA | National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency |
NIC | National Intelligence Council |
NIE | National Intelligence Estimate |
NIM | National Intelligence Manager (ODNI) |
NIO | National Intelligence Officer |
NIPF | National Intelligence Priorities Framework |
NIP | National Intelligence Program |
NOC | non-official cover |
NPIC | National Photographic Interpretation Center |
NRO | National Reconnaissance Office |
NSA | National Security Agency |
NSC | National Security Council |
NSI | National Security Intelligence |
NSL | national security letter |
OBE | overtaken by events |
OC | official cover |
ODNI | Office of the Director of National Intelligence |
OLC | Office of Legal Counsel (Justice Department) |
OPEC | Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries |
osint | open-source intelligence |
OSS | Office of Strategic Services |
PDB | President's Daily Brief |
PDD | Presidential Decision Directive |
PFIAB | President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (as of 2008, PIAB) |
phoint | photographic intelligence |
PIAB | President's Intelligence Advisory Board |
PM ops | paramilitary operations |
PRC | People's Republic of China |
PRISM | Codename for controversial NSA sigint program targeting, without a court warrant, suspected terrorists – including some Americans (post-9/11) |
RFE | Radio Free Europe |
R | Republican |
RL | Radio Liberty |
SA | special activities |
SAM | surface-to-air missile |
SCIF | sensitive compartmented information facility |
SDO | support to diplomatic operations |
SecDef | Secretary of Defense |
SHAMROCK | cryptonym for NSA program to read international cables from and to American citizens (pre-1975) |
sigint | signals intelligence |
SLBM | submarine-launched ballistic missile |
SMO |
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 21.4.2017 |
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Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
Schlagworte | American Politics • Global politics • Militär, Sicherheitsdienste, Geheimdienste • Military / Security / Intelligence • Political Science • Politik • Politik / Amerika • Politikwissenschaft • Sicherheitspolitik • Weltpolitik |
ISBN-10 | 1-5095-1308-6 / 1509513086 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-5095-1308-6 / 9781509513086 |
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