Bombs, bugs, drugs, and thugs : intelligence and America's quest for security / Loch K. Johnson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johnson, Loch K., 1942-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intelligence service--United States.

Intelligence service.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxi, 298 p. ) ill. ;

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, c2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Ranging widely over such controversial topics as the intelligence role of the United Nations and whether assassination should be a part of America's foreign policy, Loch Johnson here maps out a critical and prescriptive vision of the future of American intelligence."--Jacket.

Contents:

Part I: An intelligence agenda for a new world

A planet bristling with bombs and missiles

Stocks and (James) Bonds: spies in the global marketplace

The greening of intelligence

Spies versis germs: a worldwide resurgence of bugs

Part II: Strategic intelligence: fissures in the first line of defense

The DCI and the eight-hundred-pound gorilla

Spending for spies

Sharing the intelligence burden

Part III: Smart intelligence

and accountable

More intelligent intelligence

Balancing liberty and security

Appendix: America's intelligence leadership, 1941-2000.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-286) and index.

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

9780585480411

0585480419