Vol. 60 No. 3
Unclassified extracts from Studies in Intelligence Volume 60, Number 3
(September 2016)
CONTENTS
Intelligence for the Warfighter
*Fighting Iran: Intelligence Support During Operation Earnest Will, 1987–88 [PDF 2.0MB**]
By Richard A. Mobley
Influences on Intelligence Analysis
*Why Bad Things Happen to Good Analysts [PDF 436.4KB**]
By Jack Davis with an introduction by James B. Bruce
Intelligence in Public Media
When Should State Secrets Stay Secret? Accountability, Democratic Governance, and Intelligence [PDF 220.8KB**]
Reviewed by Jason U. Manosevitz
Fighters in the Shadows: A New History of the French Resistance
and
Eisenhower’s Guerrillas: The Jedburghs, the Maquis, and the Liberation of France [PDF 244.1KB**]
Reviewed by J. R. Seeger
The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA and the Rise of America’s Secret Government [PDF 231.6KB**]
Reviewed by J. R. Seeger
Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution [PDF 225.7KB**]
Reviewed by David A. Foy
John le Carré: The Biography [PDF 256.0**]
Reviewed by Hayden Peake
John le Carré’s The Night Manager—the Miniseries [PDF 201.7KB**]
Reviewed by John Kavanagh and James Burridge
John le Carré’s Our Kind of Traitor—the Movie [PDF 158.7KB**]
Reviewed by John Kavanagh
Intelligence Officer’s Bookshelf [PDF 452.3KB**]
Compiled and reviewed by Hayden Peake
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Contributors
James B. Bruce is a former CIA analyst who now serves as a senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation. He was coeditor of Analyzing Intelligence: National Security Practitioners’ Perspectives, from which the late Jack Davis’s article is drawn.
James Burridge is a retired NSA officer now serving as a CIA contract historian. John Kavanagh is a retired CIA operations officer. The two are frequent and award-winning contributors.
Jack Davis, who died in February 2016 is a legend among intelligence analysts. He made important contributions to the profession of intelligence, many published by CIA’s Center for the Study of Intelligence, as an analyst, thought leader, and teacher of intelligence analysis.
David A. Foy is the Intelligence Community historian on the History Staff of the Center for the Study of Intelligence.
Jason U. Manosevitz is an analyst in CIA’s Directorate of Analysis and a member of the Studies Editorial Board.
Richard A. Mobley is an analyst in the CIA’s Directorate of Analysis. He is a former naval intelligence officer and the author of Flash Point Korea: The Pueblo and EC-121 Crisis (Naval Institute Press, 2003).
Hayden Peake has served in the CIA’s Directorates of Operations and Science and Technology. He has been compiling and writing reviews for the “Intelligence Officer’s Bookshelf” since December 2002.
J. R. Seeger is a retired operations officer and frequent reviewer of books for Studies.
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