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

"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.

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Year of Publication:2000
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (xxi, 298 p. ); ill. ;
Notes:Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Table of 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.