Introduction to Intelligence
Institutions, Operations, and Analysis
First Edition
- Jonathan M. Acuff - Coastal Carolina University, USA
- Lamesha Craft - National Intelligence University
- Christopher J. Ferrero - Coastal Carolina University, USA
- Joseph Fitsanakis - Coastal Carolina University, USA
- Richard J. Kilroy, Jr. - Coastal Carolina University, USA
- Jonathan Smith - Coastal Carolina University, USA
February 2021 | 440 pages | CQ Press
Introduction to Intelligence: Institutions, Operations, and Analysis offers a strategic, international, and comparative approach to covering intelligence organizations and domestic security issues. Written by multiple authors, each chapter draws on the author's professional and scholarly expertise in the subject matter. As a core text for an introductory survey course in intelligence, this text provides readers with a comprehensive introduction to intelligence, including institutions and processes, collection, communications, and common analytic methods.
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Intelligence History
Chapter 3. Intelligence and Security Institutions: Organizations and Processes
Chapter 4. Comparative Intelligence Systems
Chapter 5. Intelligence Operations
Chapter 6. Counterintelligence
Chapter 7. Covert Action
Chapter 8. Cyberspace Operations and the Information Environment
Chapter 9. Intelligence Regulation and Governance
Chapter 10. Inter-Agency Communications
Chapter 11. Intelligence Analysis
Chapter 12. Analytic Methods
Chapter 13. The Ethics of Intelligence
Chapter 14. Threats to the United States and Its Interests
Index