Silent warfare understanding the world of intelligence

A thoroughly updated revision of the first comprehensive overview of intelligence designed for both the student and the general reader, Silent Warfare is an insider's guide to a shadowy, often misunderstood world. Leading intelligence scholars Abram N. Shulsky and Gary J. Schmitt clearly explai...

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Main Author: Shulsky, Abram N.
Other Authors: Schmitt, Gary James 1952-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC Brassey's, Inc. 2002
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505 0 |a What is intelligence? -- Spies, machines, and libraries : collecting the data -- What does it all mean? : intelligence analysis and production -- Working behind the scenes : covert action -- Spy versus spy : counterintelligence -- Guarding the guardians : the management of intelligence -- Two views of intelligence -- Toward a theory of intelligence. 
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