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Title Espionage and intelligence gathering / Louise I. Gerdes.

Imprint San Diego : Greenhaven Press, c2004.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  327.1273 Es65 2004    ---  Available
Description 192 p. ; 24 cm.
Series Current controversies
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-185) and index.
Contents CIA espionage and intelligence-gathering activities are justified / Ernest W. Lefever -- Brutal interrogation techniques may be necessary to gather valuable intelligence / Bruce Hoffman -- Covert operations are corrupt and immoral / Ramsey Clark -- Using drug money to finance CIA activities is wrong / Alain Labrousse -- Polygraph testing to prevent espionage at nuclear weapons labs undermines security / Alan P. Zelicoff -- Espionage tactics that misinform the American public are corrosive / Ted Gup -- Intelligence reforms : an overview / Brian Hansen -- United States should reform its intelligence-gathering methods / John M. Deutch and Jeffrey H. Smith -- FBI must improve its counterespionage strategies / Patrick Leahy -- Improved surveillance and information sharing is necessary to protect America against terrorists / Michael Scardaville -- U.S. intelligence agencies must curb their reliance on surveillance technology / Kevin Hogan -- U.S. intelligence community must develop more human intelligence to combat terrorism / Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton -- CIA intelligence-gathering methods have been successful in fighting terrorism / James L. Pavitt -- Counterespionage reforms at U.S. intelligence agencies are unnecessary / Jay Taylor -- CIA should not become involved in direct combat operations / Bruce Berkowitz -- Tighter controls to prevent espionage at U.S. research laboratories are harmful / Neal Lane -- Creating a defense department intelligence czar could bias intelligence gathering / Jason Vest -- Granting intelligence agencies increased powers to fight terrorism threatens civil liberties / Philip B. Heymann -- Total information awareness system violates privacy rights / John Allen Paulos -- Secret review courts foster violations of civil liberties / Charles Levendosky -- Expanding FBI intelligence-gathering powers will violate civil liberties / Nat Hentoff -- Intelligence gathering to prevent economic espionage violates civil liberties / Andrew Grosso -- Granting intelligence agencies increased powers to fight terrorism does not threaten civil liberties / Viet D. Dinh -- Total information awareness system does not violate privacy rights / Jeff Carley -- Secret review courts do not foster violations of civil liberties / Stuart Taylor Jr. -- Changing nature of warfare requires new intelligence-gathering techniques / G. I. Wilson, John P. Sullivan and Hal Kempfer -- Emerging terrorist threats require new spying strategies / Gregory F. Treverton -- U.S. counterintelligence methods must be improved / Richard Shelby -- Digital spies pose a serious threat to national security / Barry Neild -- Globalization is making it easier for foreign-born citizens to spy on the United States / Bill Gertz.
Subject Intelligence service.
Espionage.
Espionage, American.
Added Author Gerdes, Louise I., 1953-
ISBN 0737715812 (lib. : alk. paper)
0737715820 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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