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Strategic intelligence for American world policy Unknown Binding – January 1, 1951

by Sherman Kent (Author)
4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
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The Description for this book, Strategic Intelligence for American World Policy, will be forthcoming.
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  1. Print length
    226 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Princeton University Press
  4. Publication date
    January 1, 1951
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  • Vic Currier
    5.0 out of 5 stars Proper Tradecraft & Analysis: "Is it in you - or in the evidence?"
    Reviewed in the United States on November 4, 2024
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    So far, I'm the author of the only existing biography of the OSS G-2 colonel, later DDCI at CIA, who hired Dr. Kent and wrote the premier "review" of Kent's book for the "New York Times Book Review" in the 1940s. His name was William Harding Jackson (1901-1971). Both worked with Donovan during the OSS years and were involved with the one individual at Arlington Hall SIGINT headquarters, Col. Carter W. Clarke (1896-1987), who ignored FDR's wife Elenor Roosevelt's order to stop collecting Soviet SIGINT message traffic during WW-II between Moscow & New York. Col. Clarke founded the ultra-secret "VENONA Project" in 1939, which led to the arrest, conviction, and execution of many Soviet KGB spies during the Cold War years. Unlike most of the academia in Government, Dr. Kent was one of the few who knew where skeletons were buried - thus, his long career as the final editor of the President's Daily Brief (PDF) for 5 US Presidents over 15+ years. Through the end of the Cold War, "Strategic Intelligence for American World Policy" was "THE Bible" for clandestine and covert activities at the CIA. This book is where it all started for today's Intelligence Community in 1945-46. It is a "MUST READ" for any serious intelligence analyst or operator.
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  • M. Conrad Hunter
    5.0 out of 5 stars Should be in every Intelligence Officer's personal library.
    Reviewed in the United States on December 9, 2004
    This book explains why we need to make some strategic changes in order to achieve a higher level of national security. It does not anatomize intelligence or devote many pages to predictions of crises. It does not document at length what has been proven in time-that Americans rely too heavily on quantitative as opposed to qualitative constructs. It takes no position about methods of collection beyond insisting that content must receive as much emphasis as `technical sophistication'. It does not discuss bureaucracy, funding, or government oversight. In fact, one of its major purposes is to separate itself from what the `best and brightest' espoused in their quest for policy based on quantitative and statistical analysis.

    It focuses on what I perceive to be the most important, and fundamental forms of intelligence-knowledge, organization, and activity. I believe that it reveals the very essence of intelligence so compellingly that anyone connected with the American intelligence community will be enthralled with the book's message and compelled to act upon it.

    This book along with Washington Platt's Strategic Intelligence Production, and National Character in Action act as the cornerstone of American intelligence history and are well worth the cost and effort in locating these rare volumes.
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