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Secret Intelligence: A Reader. Edited by Christopher Andrew, Richard J. Aldrich and Wesley K. Wark. New York: Routledge, 2009. ISBN 978-0-415-42024-2. Notes. Index. Pp. xxi, 552. $49.95.
This collection, edited by three prominent scholars of intelligence, is a valuable collection of essays that will be of interest to students of contemporary intelligence studies.
The reader's 30 contributors include twenty scholars and ten practitioners. Although its essays include classics of the field, such as Richard Betts s "Surprise Despite Warning: Why Sudden Attacks Succeed," the volume is heavily weighted to more contemporary topics. It is divided into four parts. The first deals with the intelligence cycle and includes essays on collection, analysis,...