Bombs, Bugs, Drugs, and Thugs : Intelligence and America's Quest for Security (New ed.)

This text examines the contemporary state and the future challenges of American strategic intelligence.

Drawing on dozens of personal interviews and contacts, it explores how America's intelligence organizations face remarkable tests in the 21st century.

It argues that intelligence failure is the inevitable outcome when the nation's 13 secret agencies resist the need for central co-ordination.

Ranging widely over such controversial topics as the intelligence role of the United Nations and whether assassination should be part of America's foreign policy, it maps out a critical and prescriptive vision of the future of American intelligence.