A combination of flawed intelligence, book-cooking, random "body-counts" and wishful thinking led to chronic underestimates of the strength of the enemy.
Mr. Pforzheimer's father and uncle had been in the rare book business, and he had begun his own collections of intelligence books and memorabilia.
The other, overlooking the Potomac River, and fortified by a locked steel gate, was home to the largest private collection of intelligence books in the world.
And spying on foreign leaders, even allied ones, is the oldest trick in the signals-intelligence book.
Cates has been reading several works on human psychology and interactions, including "Social Intelligence," a book that warns against the dangers of digital absorption.
What I really like about my husband was that he was one of the very few people I met in life that had this amazing combination of human intelligence and book intelligence.
The site also posts biographies of secret service officers, documents pertaining to the security and intelligence services, book reviews, discussions and interviews with secret service officers.
In 1993 he published, with Sir Harry Hinsley, official historian of British wartime intelligence, a book of personal histories of Bletchley veterans entitled Codebreakers: The Inside Story of Bletchley Park.
And now Thompson has brought his considerable intelligence to book writing.
You can always take a scientifically validated test, such as the one that comes with the Emotional Intelligence 2.0 book.
Goodman also recently published "Whistleblower at the CIA: An Insider's Account of the Politics of Intelligence," a book about his time in the agency.
