Information as an instrument of power.
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Psychology of Intelligence Analysis
Richards J. Heuer Jr. · 1999
Intelligence failures are usually cognitive rather than informational, and the fix is structured techniques that force alternatives to be considered.
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Covert Action in Chile, 1963-1973
United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Activities · 1975
Documents the CIA's covert programme to prevent and then undermine Salvador Allende's government, from propaganda and party funding to support for a…
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8 works
Richards J. Heuer Jr.
Intelligence failures are usually cognitive rather than informational, and the fix is structured techniques that force alternatives to be considered.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Roger C. Molander, Andrew S. Riddile & Peter A. Wilson
Introduces strategic information warfare as a distinct threat category in which non-military attacks on information infrastructure could achieve strategic effects historically reserved for armed force.
link checked 17 Sept 2026James M. Olson
Lays out counterintelligence as a discipline with its own operating principles rather than an adjunct to collection, arguing most Western counterintelligence failures trace back to violating a short list of basic rules.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Congressional Research Service
Traces how the House and Senate intelligence committees created after the Church Committee investigations still lack some of the procedural tools other committees have, and lays out the specific reform options Congress has considered to close the gap.
link checked 17 Sept 2026United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Activities
Documents the CIA's covert programme to prevent and then undermine Salvador Allende's government, from propaganda and party funding to support for a coup, as a primary case study of the machinery and limits of covert action.
link checked 17 Sept 2026United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Activities
Surveys the full range of US intelligence activity — collection, covert action, counterintelligence — and finds a pattern of abuse enabled by the near-total absence of oversight, reshaping how intelligence agencies have been regulated ever since.
link checked 17 Sept 2026United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
Finds the assessment that Iraq possessed active weapons-of-mass-destruction programmes was not supported by the underlying intelligence, and traces the failure to analysts' groupthink and a reluctance to challenge a long-held assumption rather than to political pressure alone.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Martin C. Libicki
Deterrence theory built for nuclear weapons transfers badly to cyberspace because attribution is uncertain, damage is hard to verify, and a retaliatory cyberattack can be used only once before its method is exposed and patched.
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