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Improving the Intelligence Product
TL;DR: The central principle of intelligence as practiced today in the United States is that the president is the most senior policy maker and therefore, the most important consumer of the intelligence product.
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Abstract: The issue this article addresses is how to improve the intelligence product. That is, how to make it more acceptable to those who use it as an input to the policy and decision-making process. The most senior officials responsible for making policy determine, to a large extent, what the priorities are. They have the responsibility and the power to insure that resources are applied to answering their questions. Thus, the central principle of intelligence as practiced today in the United States is that the president is the most senior policy maker and therefore the most important consumer of the intelligence product. The chief executive asks the questions that get the highest priority.
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The World in Their Minds: Information Processing, Cognition, and Perception in Foreign Policy Decisionmaking
Yaacov Y. I. Vertzberger
- 01 Jan 1990
Abstract: Introduction 1. Information processing, perception, and misperception 2. The information: attributes and access 3. The decisionmaker: personality and cognition 4. The social milieu: small-group and organizational effects 5. The societal-cultural prism 6. Decisionmakers as practical-intuitive historians: the use and abuse of history 7. Conclusions and policy implications Notes Bibliography Index.
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The World in Their Minds: Information Processing, Cognition, and Perception in Foreign Policy Decisionmaking
TL;DR: The World in Their Minds (meaning the perception of those national decisionmakers whose actions affect us all) is a very good title; it is also very good book as discussed by the authors, which is a compendium of the manifold ways that misperception and hence miscalculation can enter into seemingly rational policy choice.
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The CIA and American Democracy.
Abstract: This history of the CIA examines the agency as an institution operating within a political context and looks at its shifting relationship with the American public, Congress and presidents. This edition contains a preface that discusses the agency's fortunes since the end of the Cold War.
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