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From: jya@pipeline.com (John Young)
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 1996 14:59:22 +0800
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Subject: In From the Cold
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June 28 the NYT and Wash Post reported on a new report on
intelligence:
In From the Cold: The Report of the Twentieth Century
Fund Task Force on the Future of U.S. Intelligence.
This report supplements and differs somewhat from the three
released earlier this year by the Brown Commission,
Representative Combest's Committee and the Council on
Foreign Relations. It recommends greater emphasis on
economic intelligence and less on military support as well
as reduction of covert operations. Here's an excerpt from
the Foreword:
The Task Force discerned basic problems that merit far
greater attention. Foremost among them is the
intelligence community's increasing preoccupation with
military priorities since the Soviet Union's collapse,
which has coincided with a decline in the usefulness of
intelligence to civilian policymakers. To help strike a
more equitable balance between the military and civilian
needs of the government, the Task Force proposes
specific recommendations for strengthening what it
perceives to be four pervasive shortcomings: 1) the
atrophying analytic capabilities of the intelligence
community and U.S. foreign policy agencies; 2) the lack
of productive and effective interactions between the
intelligence community and civilian officials who make
foreign policy decisions; 3) a clandestine service whose
costs have too often exceeded its benefits; and 4)
poorly organized, unfocused, and often mediocre economic
intelligence efforts.
The full volume is 275 pages, composed of introductions,
the main 21-page report and three extensive and detailed
background papers of 248 pages.
The introductions and main report are at:
http://pwp.usa.pipeline.com/~jya/infrom.txt (60 kb)
INF_rom
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In From The Cold: The Report of the Twentieth Century
Fund Task Force on the Future of U.S. Intelligence.
With Background papers by Allan E. Goodman, Gregory F.
Treverton and Philip Zelikow
The Twentieth Century Fund Press, New York, 1996. $5.95
ISBN 0-87078-392-0
To order by telephone: 1-800-552-5450
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