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Intelligence veteran Mark M. Lowenthal details how the intelligence community’s history, structure, procedures, and functions affect policy decisions. With his friendly prose, he demystifies a complicated and complex process. Rich with examples and anecdotes, Intelligence also includes bolded key terms, an acronym list, suggested readings and websites, and a list of major intelligence reviews or proposals.

This new, fully-updated fourth edition highlights many crucial recent developments in reforms, ethics, and transnational issues, including:

• the actual implementation of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) reforms and their successes and strains;
• the ongoing legal, operational, and ethical issues raised by the war against terrorism;
• the growth of transnational issues, such as WMD;
• fresh coverage of analytic standards and analytic transformation;
• more in-depth explanation of geospatial, signal, and human intelligence;
• a new discussion of the lessons of 9/11;
• and, the growing politicization of intelligence in the United States, specifically through the declassified use of National Intelligence Estimates (NIEs).

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October 17, 2008
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English
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Mark Lowenthal’s Intelligence: From Secrets to Policy, now in its fourth edition, is the go-to book for the most comprehensive overview on the U.S. intelligence community. Intelligence processes, policy, and organization are clearly and concisely described, providing those who study intelligence with a complete picture of the IC and its relationship with the executive and legislative branches to date in the evolving, dynamic and highly politicized post-9/11 world of intelligence. I highly recommend this book to academics and practitioners alike! It is a great resource -- Michael Bennett

Since 9/11, much attention within the United States and abroad has been focused on the problems within the intelligence community. Lowenthal’s book offers a superior framework for understanding the structure of the intelligence community and the challenges it faces. The fourth edition will bring new insights into some of the most current controversies involving the intelligence community and U.S. policymakers--such as the Valerie Plame case and the ‘Curveball’ incident -- Catherine Lotrionte

Lowenthal’s Intelligence: From Secrets to Policy, now in its fourth edition, remains the best introduction to the role of the United States intelligence community in the national security policy making process. Popular with academics and practitioners alike, it is the standard text for many university level intelligence and national security courses. Clear, concise, and thoroughly updated to reflect recent changes in the intelligence community, this book demystifies the intelligence process and places it in a contemporary perspective that the general reader also will find informative -- Kenneth R. Dombroski

Lowenthal’s Intelligence: From Secrets to Policy remains the mainstay in my undergraduate political science course on intelligence and international security. It strikes an impressive balance between breadth and depth, attending to the important conceptual and political themes, while providing cogent accounts of the unique analytical, organizational, and strategic problems of intelligence policy, all of which are supported by illuminating figures and illustrations and vivid historical examples. The suggestions for further readings at the end of the chapters are gold-mine for students looking to go deeper into particular questions or to bolster their research papers, and a useful reference point for instructors as well -- Timothy Crawford

About the Author

Mark M. Lowenthal has over forty-four years of experience in U.S. intelligence. He has served as the Assistant Director of Central Intelligence for Analysis and Production, Vice Chairman for Evaluation on the National Intelligence Council, staff director of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, office director and as a Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the State Department′s Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR), and Senior Specialist in U.S. Foreign Policy at the Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress. He is now the President and CEO of the Intelligence & Security Academy, an education and consulting firm. Dr. Lowenthal received his BA from Brooklyn College and his PhD in history from Harvard University. He serves as an adjunct professor at the Johns Hopkins University; the National Intelligence University; Sciences Po (Paris); and the Norwegian Defence Intelligence School. He was an adjunct at Columbia University from 1993–2007.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ CQ Press; Fourth edition (October 17, 2008)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 384 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0872896005
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0872896000
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.15 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.75 x 0.75 x 8.5 inches

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An Introduction to American Intelligence...

Reviewed in the United States on September 14, 2008

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Mark Lowenthal, a long-time veteran of the Intelligence Community, is the author of "Intelligence: From Secrets to Policy," a superb introduction into the American Intelligence Community and its transition from the long Cold War against the Soviets to the current battles against rogues states and transnational terrorists.

Lowenthal writes at the survey level for an audience with a general understanding of American history and governmental processes but limited knowledge of how intelligence fits into either. In sequencial steps, Lowenthal explains what intelligence is supposed to be, how U.S. intelligence developed, and how the Intelligence Community operates. He reviews the intelligence process, the major collection disciplines, and the moving parts of subcomponents such as analysis, counterintelligence, and covert action. The last chapters explore the difficult issues of interaction with policy-makers, oversight, and transformation.

Lowenthal's narrative is remarkable on at least two counts. He appreciates just how challenging it is to produce timely, accurate, and useful intelligence, and he is exceptionally even-handed in describing all the things that can go right or wrong in the process. While no one topic is covered in significant depth, his coverage of the whole is very solid and perfectly suited to entry-level classes on intelligence and its interaction with policy. A nice selection of anecdotes and examples help provide depth to what might otherwise turn into dry narrative.

"Intelligence: From Secrets To Policy" is very highly recommended as an introduction to the intelligence business for use at the collegiate level and for the general reader.

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Reviewed in the United States on August 30, 2010

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A warning to those getting the Kindle version: It's rife with errors. I assume this comes from OCR processing. "Intelligence" is spelled three different ways on one page. If they are going to put such raw processing up for sale, they could at least have made it one of the $9.99 books.

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Cuppa Joe

This book is like a text book on intelligence

Reviewed in the United States on October 19, 2015

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This book is a classic, although the day the new edition is released it is out of date... things change so fast! This book is like a text book on intelligence, it gives a pretty good overview of what intelligence is, how it is obtained and how it is used. This is just the tip of the iceberg.

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Tammy Wolfe

This is one of the best books I have read on Intelligence

Reviewed in the United States on October 15, 2014

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This is one of the best books I have read on Intelligence. I bought it for an Intelligence Class and it was so easy to read. It was could have been named "Intelligence for Dummies" You will learn a lot.

Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2011

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The print in this book is amazingly tiny and hard to read. The pages are very small, making it very portable. I appreciate a little color or some illustrations in my textbooks, so this was a little dry for me. It is evident the writer knows what he is talking about, but I'm not sure he expresses it as clearly or neatly as he could.

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Stan A. Taylor

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Reviewed in the United States on November 22, 2012

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Lowenthal's introductory to US intelligence and national security is still the most comprehensive, concise, and readable. Any instructor of such a college course would be well-advised to use any edition of this text

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Martin G Mc Grath

but still a very good look on the inside

Reviewed in the United States on April 9, 2017

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at little outdate, but still a very good look on the inside. it is a bit plodgy, so you have to stick to it to enjoy it.

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Good read

Reviewed in the United States on July 6, 2018

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So nice... I bought it twice (accidentally)

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Dieses Buch wurde als Geschenk erworben und ist sehr interessant und qualitativ hochwertig. Beim Beschenkten kam es sehr gut an. Kauf empfehlenswert!

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現時点で最高のインテリジェンス教科書

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　米国の大学院ではインテリジェンスの講義が開設されていることが珍しくないが、インテリジェンスの教科書として最も評価が高いのが本書である。脚注が無く、証拠が不明確な箇所が多いのが唯一の難点だが、それをのぞけば、内容は非常に網羅的だし、アメリカの情報コミュニティーの２００８年の時点での最新情報も盛り込まれているし、文献案内も充実しているし、とにかく素晴らしい。学生、研究はもちろん、実務家にもオススメしたい本である。

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