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Record Nr.

UNINA9910845068203321

Autore

Johnson Loch K. <1942->

Titolo

Bombs, bugs, drugs, and thugs : intelligence and America's quest for security / / Loch K. Johnson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : New York University Press, c2000

ISBN

9780585480411

0585480419

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxi, 298 p. ) : ill. ;

Disciplina

327.1273

Soggetti

Intelligence service - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-286) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Part I: An intelligence agenda for a new world -- A planet bristling with bombs and missiles -- Stocks and (James) Bonds: spies in the global marketplace -- The greening of intelligence -- Spies versis germs: a worldwide resurgence of bugs -- Part II: Strategic intelligence: fissures in the first line of defense -- The DCI and the eight-hundred-pound gorilla -- Spending for spies -- Sharing the intelligence burden -- Part III: Smart intelligence--and accountable -- More intelligent intelligence -- Balancing liberty and security -- Appendix: America's intelligence leadership, 1941-2000.

Sommario/riassunto

"Ranging widely over such controversial topics as the intelligence role of the United Nations and whether assassination should be a part of America's foreign policy, Loch Johnson here maps out a critical and prescriptive vision of the future of American intelligence."--Jacket.