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The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is an independent US Government agency responsible for providing national security intelligence to senior US policymakers.
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A Roundtable DiscussionThe Brown Commission and the Future of Intelligence
A ColloquiumThe Intelligence Community: Is It Broken? How To Fix It? . . . . John H. Hedley
A Singular OpportunityGaining Access to CIA's Records . . . . Evan Thomas
The Need for IntegrityThoughts Provoked by "The Very Best Men" . . . . Michael Thompson
The Challenge of Managing UncertaintyPaul Wolfowitz on Intelligence-Policy Relations . . . . Jack Davis
Another System of OversightIntelligence and the Rise of Judicial Intervention . . . . Frederic F. Manget
A Different Kind of ThreatSome Thoughts on Irregular Warfare . . . . Jeffrey B. White
Declassification's Great Leap ForwardCORONA and the Intelligence Community . . . . Kevin C. Ruffner
The Intelligence of NationsAdam Smith Examines the Intelligence Economy . . . . Todd Brethauer
Coping With Iran-ContraPersonal Reflections on Bill Casey's Last Month at CIA . . . . James McCullough
Commentary Commentary . . . . David Gries
Revisiting VietnamThoughts Engendered by Robert McNamara's "In Retrospect" . . . . Harold P. Ford
Salvage and LiquidationThe Creation of the Central Intelligence Group . . . . Michael Warner
Duping the SovietsThe Farewell Dossier . . . . Gus W. Weiss
