Vol. 57. No. 2
Unclassified extracts from Studies in Intelligence Volume 57, Number 2
(June 2013)
CONTENTS
Historical Perspectives
Post-World War II Intelligence 1
*America’s Secret Vanguard: US Army Intelligence Operations in Germany, 1944–47 [PDF 1.2MB**]
Thomas Boghardt
*The Growth of China’s Air Defenses: Responding to Covert Overflights, 1949–1974 [PDF 113.2KB**]
Intelligence Today and Tomorrow
Rethinking Failure
*Managing the “Reliability Cycle”: An Alternative Approach to Thinking About Intelligence Failure [PDF 653.0KB**]
Scott J. Hatch
From the Studies Archive
50 Years Since Early Engagement in Southeast Asia
*Counterintelligence in Counterguerrilla Operations [PDF 2.1MB**]
M. H. Schiattareggia
Intelligence in Public Media
The Man Nobody Knew: In Search of My Father, CIA Spymaster William Colby [85.1KB**]
Reviewed by Randall B. Woods
Intelligence in Public Literature
The Cuban Missile Crisis Redux: Lessons from Two More Works [PDF 89.0KB**]
Reviewed by Thomas Coffey
Historical Dictionary of Signals Intelligence [PDF 85.6KB**]
Reviewed by Gary K.
The Zimmermann Telegram: Intelligence, Diplomacy, and America's Entry into World War I [PDF 85.2KB**]
Reviewed by John Ehrman
Intelligence Officer’s Bookshelf [PDF 166.5KB**]
Compiled and reviewed by Hayden Peake
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Contributors
Bob Bergin is a retired Foreign Service Officer. He has published numerous works on aviation and intelligence history in East Asia.
Thomas Boghardt is a US Army historian. He has contributed articles to Studies in Intelligence. He is the author of a recently published history, The Zimmermann Telegram: Intelligence, Diplomacy, and America’s Entry into World War I, reviewed in this issue.
Thomas Coffey has served as an analyst in the CIA’s Directorate of Intelligence. He is currently a member of the Lessons Learned Program of the Center for the Study of Intelligence. He is a frequent contributor.
John Ehrman is an analyst in the CIA’s Directorate of Intelligence. He is a frequent and award-winning contributor to Studies.
Scott J. Hatch is a manager in the National Counterterrorism Center. He has served in CIA’s Sherman Kent School for Intelligence Analysis.
Gary K. is a CIA officer.
Hayden Peake is the curator of the Historical Intelligence Collection in the CIA Library. He has served in the Directorates of Science and Technology and Operations.
M. H. Schiattareggia is the penname of an officer who served in the CIA’s Directorate of Plans (now the National Clandestine Service).
Randall B. Woods is a distinguished professor of history at the University of Arkansas. He is the author of the recently published biography of William Colby, Shadow Warrior: William Egan Colby and the CIA.
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