"An eye-opening account of our intelligence establishment."
--"Library Journal"
"An outstanding book, clearly the best recent, up-to-date survey
of the American intelligence community, ranking with the top
half-dozen ever."
"--H. Bradford Westerfield, Yale University"
Recent years have seen numerous books about the looming threat
posed to Western society by biological and chemical terrorism, by
narcoterrorists, and by the unpredictable leaders of rogue nations.
Some of these works have been alarmist. Some have been sensible and
measured. But none has been by Loch Johnson.
Johnson, author of the acclaimed "Secret Agencies "and "an
experienced overseer of intelligence" ("Foreign Affairs"), here
examines the present state and future challenges of American
strategic intelligence. Written in his trademark style--dubbed
"highly readable" by "Publishers Weekly"--and drawing on dozens of
personal interviews and contacts, Johnson takes advantage of his
insider access to explore how America today aspires to achieve
nothing less than "global transparency," ferreting out information
on potential dangers in every corner of the world.
And yet the American security establishment, for all its
formidable resources, technology, and networks, currently remains a
loose federation of individual fortresses, rather than a well
integrated "community" of agencies working together to provide the
President with accurate information on foreign threats and
opportunities. Intelligence failure, like the misidentified Chinese
embassy in Belgrade accidentally bombed by a NATO pilot, is the
inevitable outcome when the nation's thirteen secret agencies
steadfastly resist the need for centralcoordination.
Ranging widely and boldly over such controversial topics as the
intelligence role of the United Nations (which Johnson believes
should be expanded) and whether assassination should be a part of
America's foreign policy (an option he rejects for fear that the
U.S. would then be cast not only as global policeman but also as
global godfather), Loch K. Johnson here maps out a critical "and"
prescriptive vision of the future of American intelligence.
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