Strategic intelligence for American world policy / by Sherman Kent.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kent, Sherman, author.

Series:

Princeton legacy library.

Princeton Legacy Library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intelligence service.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (254 pages)

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1966.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Intelligence work is in some ways like a newspaper or newsmagazine, in some like a business, in some like the research activity of a university; very little of it involves cloaks and daggers. All of it is important to national survival, and should be understood by the citizens of a democracy. In this remarkable book, an able scholar, experienced in foreign intelligence, analyzes all of these varied aspects of what is known as "high-level foreign positive intelligence." Illustrations are drawn from that branch, but the lessons apply to all intelligence, and in fact to all those phases of business, of journalism, and (most importantly) of scholarship, where the problem is to learn what has happened or will happen. Originally published in 1966.

Contents:

Front matter

Preface

Note to Second Printing

Preface 1966

Part I. Intelligence is Knowledge

Chapter 1. Intelligence is Knowledge

Chapter 2. Substantive Content: (1) The Basic Descriptive Element

Chapter 3. Substantive Content: (2) The Current Reportorial Element

Chapter 4. Substantive Content: (3) The Speculative - Evaluative Element

Part II. Intelligence is Organization

Chapter 5. Intelligence is Organization

Chapter 6. Central Intelligence

Chapter 7. Departmental Intelligence

Chapter 8. Departmental Intelligence Organization: Ten Lessons from Experience

Part III. Intelligence is Activity

Chapter 9. Intelligence is Activity

Chapter 10. Special Problems of Method in Intelligence Work

Chapter 11. Producers and Consumers of Intelligence

Appendix

Appendix. Kinds of Intelligence

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

9780691273761

0691273766

9780691650654

0691650659

9781400879151

1400879159

OCLC:

927442516