The United States Intelligence Community; Part Two, Raw Notes

Part One is the finished product...

A couple of weeks ago, I completed my first course in an Intelligence Studies masters program; I'll be sharing my work here, and on http://gradschoolfool.blogspot.com/ (my old grad school blog), for anyone interested in this kind of thing.

So today is just going to be raw notes, the copypasta from the required reading, plus a few comments of my own here and there. The notes are NOT formatted for reading (I do editing when I actually write the paper). There will defintely be crossover between here and Part One, as I build One from these notes.

last note, i'll be doped up on codeien today, and trying to finish another paper, so it's unlikely I'll be responding here

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Your first reaearch question social sciences
CO-1: Analyze the history of the intelligence community.
CO-2: Evaluate the intelligence structure and the cycle of intelligence

QUESTION: is the research proposal going to be an academic approach, or a professional case study?

With the disestablishment of the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) position and creation of the DNI, the Director of the CIA (DCIA) no longer serves as the President’s principal intelligence advisor

National Technical Collection Organizations, provides an overview of the National Security Agency (NSA) and National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA).

the impact of Title 10 and Title 50 on roles/responsibilities,

The Defense Intelligence Agency, according to its website, is a “Department of Defense combat support agency that produces analyses and disseminates military intelligence information.” DIA provides information on foreign military intelligence (e.g. political assessments, troop movement, weapons distribution, military capabilities, diplomatic changes, economic issues, health concerns, etc.) that is distributed to policymakers, defense officials, combat commanders and others in the intelligence community.

The NSA describes itself as “America’s cryptologic organization” that “coordinates, directs and performs highly specialized activities to protect U.S. government information systems and produce foreign signals intelligence information.”
The NSA has two primary functions: converting cryptic foreign intelligence communication into comprehensive text (codebreaking) and protecting U.S. government information systems by using cryptography (codemaking).

”this is the greatest threat to US national security: people's failure to change their thinking to coincide with all of the changes in the world. “ Boren, D. L. (1992, Summer). The Intelligence Community: How Crucial? Foreign Affairs; New York, 71(3), 52.

• components of IC
  MISSION
  organizational structure
  -”The U.S. Intelligence Community is defined in the National Security Act as amended. “ Proposals for Intelligence Reorganization,1949-2004
  legal restrictions
  leadership
  institutional culture (training, choice of personnel)

history (history demonstreates all the other issues)
crecive change

personal relations (formal vs informal)
-the quality of personal relationships between the DNI and others who share power within the community will largely determine the extent and pace of future integration and the improved outcomes greater unity is expected to produce. (Slick 2014)

-hoover was the patrirach of the fbi, keller

• What is IC (MISSION)
  who are its collectors
  LE 1st line of homeland defense
  who are consumers
  policy makers
  defending agencies
  american people (not so much, directly)

private agencies

• what AFFECTS IC
  fallibility of the analytic process (Hammond) (Jensen)

policy-makers disregaring intel – Korea
-INTELLIGENCE FAILURE IN KOREA: MAJOR GENERAL CHARLES A. WILLOUGHBY‘S ROLE IN THE UNITED NATIONS COMMAND‘S DEFEAT IN NOVEMBER, 1950

-Fehrenbech
foreign intel vs domestic intel ← civil rights
intel autonomy vs political interference
political interference

• Schmitt, G. J., & Shulsky, A. N. (n.d.). Leo Strauss and the World of Intelligence. 6.

privatizaion
organizational issues (stovepiping, duplication of functions, vulnerbility of centralization, “I’ve got 7 bosses, Bob”)
-Rumsfeld stated, “There may be ways we can strengthen intelligence, but central-ization is most certainly not one of them.” Va n H o o k, 5 .
secrecy vs accountability/ transparency
privacy vs liberty
growth complex/burrocratic politcs/iron law of burrocracy (infighting, etc)
-”Title 10” is used colloquially to refer to DoDand military operations, while “Title 50” refers to intelligence agencies, intelligence activities, and covert action. “
subversion/corruption

fear of failure/scapegoating , Heritage foundation

“many professionals looked at the reform brouhaha with detached bemusement, believing reform would result in no meaningful change.4 There was ample his-torical evidence for this view: the community had been the subject of 14 studies in its first 60 years, with the vast majority resulting in little substantial change.5 “ Neary, 2010)
-Powers 9bomb)

• What are instruments of change to IC?
  Executive orders
  Presidential directives
  Acts of Congress
  Departmental regulations
  Memorandums of agreement/understanding

MY THOUTS

hierarchial organizations have clear lines of resonisibilty ,command, and accountability

Voelz, G. J. (2006). Managing the Private Spies: Use of Commercial Augmentation for Intelligence Operations: https://doi.org/10.21236/ADA476310

Wall, A. E. (2011). Demystifying the Title 10-Title 50 Debate: Distinguishing Military Operations, Intelligence Activities & Covert Action. 3, 58.

Wilson, J. (1991). Bureaucracy: What Government Agencies Do And Why They Do It (58336th edition). New York: Basic Books.

Jensen, M. A., Mark. A. Jensen@dni. gov. (2012). Intelligence Failures: What Are They Really and What Do We Do about Them? Intelligence & National Security, 27(2), 261–282. https://doi.org/10.1080/02684527.2012.661646

HISTORY REF
Intelligence in the civil war. (n.d.).

Miles, A. D. (2002). The Creation of the National Imagery and Mapping Agency: Congress’s Role as Overseer: https://doi.org/10.21236/ADA476584

Warner. (n.d.). The Creation of the Central Intelligence Group.

Wirth, K. E. (2007). The Coast Guard Intelligence Program Enters the Intelligence Community. A Case Study of Congressional Influence on Intelligence Community Evolution: https://doi.org/10.21236/ADA476467

Best Jr, R. A. (2004). Proposals for Intelligence Reorganization, 1949-2004. Retrieved from http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA520361

Neary, P. C. (2010). Intelligence Reform, 2001–2009: Requiescat in Pace? 54(1), 16.
Slick, S. B. (2014). The 2008 Amendments to Executive Order 12333, United States Intelligence Activities. 58(2), 18.

Purpose
Moore, D. T. (n.d.). SPECIES OF COMPETENCIES FOR INTELLIGENCE ANALYSIS. 35.

Warrior Politics, Kagan

Kibbe, J. (2010). Congressional Oversight of Intelligence: Is the Solution Part of the Problem? Intelligence & National Security, 25(1), 24–49. https://doi.org/10.1080/02684521003588104

ORGANIZATION
Miles, A. D. (n.d.). The U.S. Intelligence Community: Selected Cross-Cutting Issues. 38.