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Dirty Tricks or Trump Cards U. S. Covert Action and Counterintelligence

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ISBN-10: 0765806991

ISBN-13: 9780765806994

Edition: 2001 (Revised)

Authors: Roy S. Godson, Roy Godson, Roy Godson

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List price: $30.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Publication date: 12/4/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 337
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English

Introduction to the Transaction Edition
Preface
Neglected Elements in American Intelligence
Integrating the Elements
Neglected Elements
Counterintelligence
Covert Action
Steps and Missteps: Covert Action Since 1945
Halcyon Days
Consensus: Stopping Communism
A Sometime Instrument of Policy
Successes
Missteps
Expose
The Wind Shifts
Congressional Assertiveness
The Central American Drama
Covert Action in the 1990s
The Current Ethos
Building and Rebuilding: Counterintelligence Since World War II
Building the Cold War Consensus
The FBI
Collection
Analysis
Exploitation
The CIA
Military Counterintelligence
Breaking the Mold
Rebuilding
The FBI
The CIA
The Military
Handmaiden of Policy: Principles of Covert Action
First Principles
Policy, Opportunity, and People
The Infrastructure
Personnel
Material Support
Question of Values
Symbiosis
Ends, Means, and Historical Lessons
Political Action
Agents of Influence
Helping Organizations
Movement of Money and Support
Covert Propaganda
Paramilitary Operations
Assassination
Terrorism
Guerrillas and Resistance Movements
Safe Haven
Materiel Support for Paramilitary Operations
Special Forces
Coups d'Etat
Intelligence Support
Counterterrorism: Synergy in Action
Offensive Defense: Principles of Counterintelligence
Central Coordination and Strategy
Counterintelligence Analysis
Triage of Targets
Assessing Vulnerability
Adversaries: Targets and Competence
Counterdeception Analysis
Support for Operations
Counterintelligence Analysis and Positive Intelligence
Counterintelligence Collection
Integration of Sources
Collection from Open Sources
Clandestine Collection from Human Sources
Defectors
Physical Surveillance
Access Agents
Double Agents
Liaison
Illegals
Technical Counterintelligence
Exploitation
On the Offensive
Deception and Offensive Counterintelligence
Positive Intelligence
In Pursuit of Effective Intelligence
Variables at Play
The Pace of Modernization and Technological Innovation
Government Structure and Bureaucratic Culture
The Perception of Political Circumstances
The Nature of the Regime
Putting the Pieces Together
For the Foreseeable Future
Notes
Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations
Bibliography
Index