Intelligence and Information Policy for National Security: Key Terms and Concepts

Building on Goldman’s Words of Intelligence and Maret’s On Their Own Terms this is a one-stop reference tool for anyone studying and working in intelligence, security, and information policy. This comprehensive resource defines key terms of the theoretical, conceptual, and organizational aspects of intelligence and national security information policy. It explains security classifications, surveillance, risk, technology, as well as intelligence operations, strategies, boards and organizations, and methodologies. It also defines terms created by the U.S. legislative, regulatory, and policy process, and routinized by various branches of the U.S. government. These terms pertain to federal procedures, policies, and practices involving the information life cycle, national security controls over information, and collection and analysis of intelligence information.

This work is intended for intelligence students and professionals at all levels, as well as information science students dealing with such issues as the Freedom of Information Act.

Jan Goldman is professor of Intelligence and National Security Studies at Tiffin University. He has been an analyst and educator in the intelligence and academic communities for over 30 years. He serves on the editorial board of the open-access journal Security and Society, http://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/secrecyandsociety/

Susan Maret teaches a course in government secrecy at the School of Information, San Jose State University. She is the editor of the open-access journal Security and Society, http://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/secrecyandsociety/