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National Security Intelligence: Secret Operations in Defense of the Democracies

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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 the 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. Drawing on over forty years of experience studying intelligence agencies and their activities, he explains the three primary missions of intelligence, before addressing the wider dilemmas of accountability posed by the existence of secret government organizations embedded in open, democratic societies.

Recent developments examined in this new edition include the dysfunctional relationship between the White House and America's secret agencies and fresh threats to democratic societies posed by authoritarian regimes. The new edition also offers, in two separate chapters, an expanded exploration of intelligence collection and analysis as well as new insights into covert action, from the use of propaganda and political operations to the overthrow of governments and assassination plots against foreign leaders. Throughout its pages, the book unpacks the ethical dilemmas of secret activities in the quest of global political and military objectives. It also gets to grips with the inevitable mistakes that are made in assessing world events; why some intelligence officers become traitors against their own countries by spying on behalf of foreign regimes; and how spy agencies can fall into scandalous behavior, including highly intrusive surveillance and harassment against the very citizens they are meant to protect.

Comprehensively revised and updated throughout, National Security Intelligence is a vital resource for anyone with an interest in how nations shield themselves against threats through intelligence organizations and operations, and how they strive for safeguards to prevent the misuse of this secret power.

Συγγραφέας: Johnson Loch
Εκδότης: POLITY PRESS
Σελίδες: 320
ISBN: 9781509560349
Εξώφυλλο: Μαλακό Εξώφυλλο
Αριθμός Έκδοσης: 3
Έτος έκδοσης: 2024

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

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 Spy Watching: Intelligence Accountability in the United States and National Security Intelligence, 2d ed. 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).

(SPIA) at the University of Georgia.

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