After World War II American intelligence had the need to be transformed. The inexperience along with bureaucracy and poor coordination among American intelligence officers obligated the United States intelligence community to change dramatically in order to confront the new challenges that emerged after the end of WWII. From Early America through WWI the intelligence system of the United States of America was involved in operations in which they had to construct intelligence systems virtually from scratch (Andrew 1995). Human intelligence was already developed, but with certain limitations and other intelligence disciplines were underdeveloped and very seldom sophisticated. After WWI America recessed and settled in a period of peace. The United States faced no threat to its security from its neighbors, from powers outside of the Western Hemisphere (Lowenthal 2006). That caused a visible absence of intelligence activities, leaving America out of sight for any international conflicts; the United States of America focused and limited its activities beyond its own borders. In later years the Japanese attack to Pearl Harbor, America rushed to reactivate their military forces, moving from a passive country to full participation into a another international conflict; WWII. As a consequence, the United States engaged in activities that improved its intelligence system increasing its capabilities needed to address seriously the future threats of the Cold War. For the American intelligence community, George Washington is considered the father of intelligence. The introduction of the intelligence concept and its application in some missions during the early days of America helped America’s Founding Fathers to succeed against t... ... middle of paper ... ...lins Publisher, 1995. donmar.org. The Growth of American Intelligence Between Wars. http://donmar.org/6911rgm/crypto.htm (accessed Mar 5, 2011). Erickson, Ryan. History of U.S. Intelligence: Revolution-WWI. Nov 10, 2008. http://ryanerickson.com/2008/11/10/history-of-u-s-intelligence-revolution-wwi/ (accessed Mar 02, 2011). Hughes-Wilson, John. Military Intelligence Blunders and Cover-Ups. New York: Carrol & Graff Publishers, 1994. Lowenthal, Mark M. Intelligence. Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2006. McCormick, James M. American Foreign Policy. Boston: Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, 2010. Prados, John. Safe for Democracy The Secret Wars of the CIA. Chicago, IL: Ivan R Dee, Publisher, 2006. Richelson, Jeffrey T. The US Intelligence ommunity. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2008. Schmitt, Abraham N. Shulsky Gary J. Silent Warfare. Dulles, VA: Potomac Books, Inc., 2002.
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Throughout the years most country's governments have established some sort of secret police. No matter what the government called it, whether it is the United States' Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) or her Majesty's secret service (MI6), whatever name the government used, the international term of "secret police" could always be applied. Many agencies of secret police have had their success and failures, some more than others. The KGB, which in English means "the Committee of Public Safety," has had their share of both successes and failures. Most secret police agencies have been used primarily to obtain information from other countries. This was also a primary goal for the KGB, but one of their other goals, which was just as important, was to keep unwanted outside information from the Russian people. This was only one out of many the KGB's objectives. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to prove that the actions of the KGB were, all in all, a success.
As mentioned before, it seems that intelligence and policy cannot live with and without each other (Betts, 2002). The intelligence community and policymakers need to ...
Congress’s answer to the problems set forth in the commission’s report was to expand the intelligence community to private contractors to fulfill the war time need for more intelligence. When this occurred ...
The United States has involved itself in several covert operations throughout the nation’s short history. Operations, like the Iran-Contra Affair, and the Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) role in Afghanistan are just two examples of these types of secret government missions, which have become divulged to the American public. Both of these operations occurred under President Regan, who listed strict executive goals to fight the Soviet social influence, Communism, from spreading across the world. Moreover, other similarities are observed between the two covert missions, like providing armaments and training to foreign rebel forces (National Security Archive 2006, Johnson 2011). Moreover, different agencies were used in the missions for distinct
Before examining the six processes of the intelligence cycle as they may work within an intelligence community as illustrated above, it is necessary to first understand what their respective functions are meant to carry out. The compartmentalization of the six areas may suggest each process is specialised, may use different methods to reach their goals, or may need varying levels of security clearances . To decipher a starting point within the intelligence cycle, it has been argued that the sole purpose for initiating and m...
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