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Human Intelligence, Counterterrorism, and National Leadership: A Practical Guide Pub. Date: 10/31/2008 Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc.

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Overview

The next president of the United States faces innumerable complex problems, from a possible prolonged recession to climate change. An immediate difficulty for the president will be the global conflict between the West and Islamic jihadists and state sponsors of terrorism. The creation of the Department of Homeland Security and the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission notwithstanding, the administration needs to be armed and ready to tackle much more in the areas of intelligence and counterterrorism. The president can and must assume a hands-on, informed leadership role if the United States wants to make progress in the war on terror.

Gary Berntsen has written this book as a guide for an incoming president and White House staff so that they may master current human intelligence and counterterrorism operations. After reading its highly specific recommendations and policy prescriptions, the president and his or her staff will be able to draft a First Directive for the leadership of the intelligence and national security communities outlining how the administration wants those communities to proceed and to defend the nation’s interests.

Human Intelligence, Counterterrorism, and National Leadership will be of interest to legislators, policymakers, and anyone concerned about intelligence and terrorism policy. With a foreword by Seth G. Jones, a political scientist at the RAND Corporation and Adjunct Professor in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University. He is the author of In the Graveyard of Empires: America’s War in Afghanistan and The Rise of European Security Cooperation.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781597972543
Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
Publication date: 10/31/2008
Pages: 154
Sales rank: 377,104
Product dimensions: 5.30 (w) x 8.00 (h) x 0.80 (d)

Meet the Author

Gary Berntsen is a retired senior CIA operations officer who has served as a chief of station on three separate occasions. He led the CIA’s most important counterterrorist deployments from 1995 through 2005. Since May 2007 he has been serving as an intelligence and counterinsurgency adviser in eastern Afghanistan. Berntsen is the author of the bestseller Jawbreaker: The Attack on Bin Laden and Al Qaeda (Crown, 2005). He has done more than seventy-five television appearances as well as numerous appearances on CNN, Fox, MSNBC, and NBC. He lives in Forest Hills, New York.

1 A Little Background 1

2 Covert Action 11

3 Personnel: Lifeblood of the Clandestine Service 18

4 The Polygraph: Eating Our Young 24

5 Counterterrorism: Intelligence, Law Enforcement, and Military Power 59

6 Language Skills: Preparing for Tomorrow Today 46

7 Terrorist Finances and the Internet 51

8 The Freedom Corps 55

9 Intelligence and Force Levels in Counterinsurgency Operations 60

10 Enemy Combatants and Interrogation 67

11 Counterterrorism: Policy 76

12 Weapons of Mass Destruction 79

13 Catastrophic Event Response 85

14 Iran, the Key State Sponsor of Terrorism 90

15 The New War 97

16 Paramilitary and Special Operations Capability 99

17 The President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board 101

18 Narco-terrorism 104

19 Conclusions 108

Glossary 111

Chronology of CIA Directors 120

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Posted November 14, 2008

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Outstanding book!

Gary Berntsen, who was one of the CIA's most decorated officers, has written an outstanding policy book about human intelligence (humint)
and what our counterterrorism policy should be in the Middle East.
Humint is often shrouded in mystery, but Gary makes complicated policies
easily explanable in his book. He also recommends better ways to fight
the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, and explains how better intelligence
on the battelfield can save lives.
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