Lost Promise: How CIA Analysis Misserves the Nation An Intelligence Assessment
Language: English
Published by Univ Pr of Amer, Blue Ridge Summit, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., 1993
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315pp/illus. Study of the CIA. Clean.
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- Title
- Lost Promise: How CIA Analysis Misserves the Nation An Intelligence Assessment
- Author
- Gentry, John A.
- Publisher
- Univ Pr of Amer, Blue Ridge Summit, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
- Publication year
- 1993
- Condition
- As New
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket Issued
- Binding
- Cloth
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0819189510
- ISBN 13
- 9780819189516
- Edition
- First Edition
- Dimensions
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
- Seller catalogs
- Intelligence
Lost Promise describes and critiques the Directorate of Intelligence of the Central Intelligence Agency of the analytical arm of the agency. Gentry first describes the DI's historical and avowed mission, and in so doing, he sets a standard for comparison with the troubled operations of the DI since the early 1980s. He proposes an 18-point reform program and helps to lift the fog that surrounds the CIA and which protects it from serious external evaluation. Gentry corrects misunderstandings about CIA analysis and explains how analysis can become biased or "politicized." Lost Promise presents a framework for general intelligence evaluation, using the DI as a case study.
^BContents:^I PART I: CIA's Directorate of Intelligence; The Institution in Practice; How It Got That Way; Implications of Current Practices; Recommendations for Reform; A Primer on Review and Politicization; Lessons of the 1991 Gates Nomination for DCI. PART II: Perception Versus Reality; Explanations, Corrections, and Comments; Toward a Critics' Paradigm; Appendix: CIA Credo; Glossary of Intelligence Acronyms; Figures (including photographs and portraits).
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Review
...worth every penny for the appendices alone. (Open Source Solutions, Inc. Covertaction)
^RLost Promise is one of the most critical books about the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to be published in recent years....Lost Promise constitutes a genuine attempt to analyse and fix what is wrong with an arm of government that costs millions of dollars to administer and which, according to Gentry, neither furnishes the President with timely intelligence nor provides the taxpayer with value for money. Clearly, it cannot have been easy to write Lost Promise and it must have taken considerable courage and personal sacrifice to do so....Lost Promise^I is a timely book that should be of considerable interest to all those who are currently involved in pondering the role that intelligence should play in the twenty-first century.... (Open Source Solutions, Inc.)
The book is evidence that Gentry is no rabble-rousing misfit with a mistaken agenda. He lays out his argument with straightforward clarity, even restraint. His reasoned account of what has been going on in CIA in the last decade and more couldn't be more factual, less sensationalized. (Durham, N.C. HERALD-SUN)
The book is evidence that Gentry is no rabble-rousing misfit with a mistaken agenda. He lays out his argument with straightforward clarity, even restraint. His reasoned account of what has been going on in CIA in the last decade and more couldn't be more factual, less sensationalized. (Durham, N.C. HERALD-SUN)
This book may give ex-Director of Central Intelligence George Bush and [former] DCI R. James Woolsey indigestion. A must for students and critics of the CIA. (Durham, N.C. HERALD-SUN Covertaction)
...worth every penny for the appendices alone. (Open Source Solutions, Inc. Covertaction)
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