Description
Book SynopsisMuch has been written about U.S. intelligence operations. However, intelligence, as it is conducted in the U.S. domestic environment, has usually been treated in a fractured and sensationalistic manner. This book dispassionately assesses the U.S. domestically oriented intelligence enterprise by first examining its individual components and then showing how those components, both federal and non-federal, work in conjunction to form an often unacknowledged structure that is more than the sum of its parts.
The U.S. Domestic Intelligence Enterprise: History, Development, and Operations takes a unique, in-depth approach that assesses not only the current state of affairs but also the evolution of the domestic intelligence enterprise. To accomplish this, it examines the origins and progress of the major agencies to show why they operate in the way that they do. By providing this perspective, the book promotes an understanding of the factors to consider when developing effect
Table of Contents
Introduction. Evolution of the Political Context for Intelligence in the Domestic Setting. Components of the Domestically Oriented Intelligence Enterprise. Integration by Exigency. Human Intelligence in the Domestic Setting. Communications Intelligence. IMINT, FININT, and MASINT. Intelligence Analysis of the Domestic Environment. Disruption of Threat Actors and the Domestic Environment. Conclusion.
