In from the Cold: The Report of the Twentieth Century Fund Task Force on the Future of U.S. Intelligence

by Allan E. Goodman, Philip D. Zelikow, Gregory F. Treverton, et al.

The Soviet Union's collapse eliminated the organizing principle of American foreign policy--and the focus of U.S. intelligence since World War II. In the wake of this sudden shift, a new host of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870783920
• ISBN13: 9780870783920
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
• Length: 275 Pages
• Weight: 3.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Essential Citizen-Led Reference on Intelligence Reform

The Director of Central Intelligence now serving refuses to accept the word "reform" and persists in the traditionalist view that only incremental change is needed within the U.S. Intelligence Community. This book, by a very respected team of private sector authorities with experience in the business of intelligence opens by noting that "informed opinion overwhelmingly holds that many of the important questions about the intelligence agencies have yet to be addressed." Their book, and mine, and the books coming out this year by Greg Treverton, the team of Bruce Berkowitz and Allan Goodman, and a group of ten authors including Mel Goodman and Bob White, are part of the responsible effort from the private sector to get the incoming President and the incoming Congress to finally accept their own responsibility for engaging these issues and legislating reform that will never come from within the U.S. Intelligence Community if it is left to its own devices and inclinations.