What’s Wrong with American Spies? - My review of Breakdown by Bill Gertz, for the Middle East Intelligence Bulletin. Contains detailed discussion of “natural capacity,” discussed in class on 19 Sep 06
The Case Against Intelligence Openness - My article for the International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, dealing with Venona and related declassification issues - Discussed in class 26 Sep 06
Concerning Espionage and Social Courtesy, by Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire (DST) - Declassified article from CIA’s Studies in Intelligence, published in Summer 1966. Excerpted from a French DST pamphlet that describes the slippery slope of recruitment.
US intelligence assessments on the fall of the USSR -- A defense of CIA performance can be found in MacEachin, while At Cold War’s End is a good general survey.
Declassified Key Judgments from October 2002 National Intelligence Estimate on WMD in Iraq. When people talk about the faulty intelligence analysis on Iraq’s WMD program, this is usually what they are talking about.