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2004	US	Threat	Kaplan	The Saudi Connection to Terrorism
2004	US	Threat	Knapp	Al Qaeda and the Mass Media (PSYOP Briefing)
2004	US	Threat	Knapp	Al Qaeda and the Mass Media (Reference)
2004	US	Threat	Knapp	Distortion in Islam and Jihad
2004	US	Threat	Knapp	Diversity in Islam
2006	US	Threat	Daly	Al Qaeda Against Saudi Oil
2006	US	Threat	Johnson	Battle of Algiers and Its Lessons
2006	US	Threat	Seagraves	Gold Warriors: New Epilogue, Further of US Theft of WWII Gold Loot
2006	US	Threat	Seagraves	Gold Warriors New Chapter Seventeen
2006	US	Threat	Steele	Who Is to Blamce? The Vice President and Us
2006	US	Threat	Stern	Al Qaeda Approach to US Muslims
2006	UK	Threat	Story	Crunch Time for CIA, Banks, and Related Thieves of $742 Trillion
2005	US	Threat	Ellis	Scenarios for Next Generation Crises in Latin America
2005	US	Threat	GAO	GAO Report: US Not Addressing Islamic Fundamentalism
2005	US	Threat	OSS	Somalia Piracy Quick Report
2005	US	Threat	OSS	Report on Remote Detonation of Improvised Explosive Devices
2005	US	Threat	OSS	PRC Trade in Latin America
2005	US	Threat	Ray & Gross	The Perfect Storm
2005	US	Threat	Steele	Worksheet for Book Review on Crossing the Rubicon
2005	US	Threat	Steele	Mother Nature as Terrorist
2005	US	Threat	Steele	9-11: Who’s To Blame? One Man’s Opinion
2005	US	Threat	Thompson	Is the Terrorism Threat Over-Rated?
2004	US	Threat	Daly	Globalization & National Defense (Ecological Economics)
2004	US	Threat	Louisiana	Pre-Hurricane Katrina Study and Conclusions
2004	US	Threat	Palmer	The Real Axis of Evil: 44 Dictators
2004	US	Threat	Peters	Early Warning of Disease From Pattern Analysis
2004	US	Threat	Seagrave	Transcript of Video on Stolen Gold Held by US Treasury & Citi-Bank
2004	US	Threat	Vlahos	Attachment to the Muslim Renovatio Memorandum
2004	US	Threat	Vlahos	The Muslim Renovatio and U.S. Strategy
2004	US	Threat	Vlahos	The Muslims Are Coming
2004	US	Threat	Vlahos	Insurgency Within Islam
2003	US	Threat	Danzip	Countering Traumatic Attacks
2003	PRC	Threat	OSS	PRC Treaty & Trade Penetration of Latin America
2002	US	Threat	Emerson & Steele	American Jihad Map
2002	US	Threat	Steele	ACFR, 19 Cities: 9-11, U.S. Intelligence, & the Real World
2000	US	Threat	Steele	Georgetown/AWC: Non-Traditional Threats
1998	US	Threat	Steele	TAKEDOWN: Targets, Tools, & Technocracy
1994	US	Threat	Steele	6^th National Threat Symposium: New Directions in Information Sharing
2005	NGO	Threat	NGO	Changing Face of Global Violence
2005	NGO	Threat	NGO	Human Security Audit
2004	US	Threat	Pelton	Robert Young Pelton on Dangerous World
2004	US	Threat	Steele	Three Book Review Relevant to Global War on Terror (GWOT)
2003	US	Threat	Copeland	Analysis of the New Paradigm for Terrorism
2003	US	Threat	Manwaring	Street Gangs: New Urban Insurgency
2003	US	Threat	Manwaring	War & Conflict: Six Generations
2003	US	Threat	Pelton	Summary of Presentation on World’s Most Dangerous Places
2002	US	Threat	Betts	The Next Intelligence Failure: The Limits of Prevention
2002	NL	Threat	Jongman	World Conflict and Human Rights Map 2001-2002
2002	US	Threat	Wheaton	Transitions from Authoritarian Rule: A Model
2002	US	Threat	Wheaton	Virtual Afghanistan: Modeling a Transition from Authoritarian Rule
2001	US	Threat	Godson	Governments and Gangs
2001	US	Threat	Heidenrich	Early Warning & Complex Monitoring of Ethnic Genocide (Slides)
2001	US	Threat	Heidenrich	Early Warning & Complex Monitoring of Ethnic Genocide (Text)
1998	US	Threat		Transnational Enemies: Threats Without Names
1998	US	Threat	Glaebus	Metaphors & Modern Threats: Biological, Computer, Cognitive Viruses
1997	US	Threat	Fialka	War by Other Means: Economic Espionage In (Against) America
1997	US	Threat	Schwartau	Information Warfare: The Weapons of the Information Age
1997	US	Threat	Tenney	Cyber-Law and Cyber-Crime: Spamming Methods and Costs
1996	US	Threat	Keuhl	School of Information Warfare Threat and Strategy: Shifting Paradigms
1996	US	Threat	O’Malley	Countering the Business Intelligence Threat
1996	US	Threat	Strassmann	U.S. Knowledge Assets: The Choice Target for Information Crime
1996	US	Threat	Winkler	Electronic Industrial Espionage: Defining Ground Zero
1994	US	Threat	Whitney-Smith	Refugees: Weapon of the Post Cold War World–Counter Offensive: IW

One of Two Required Intelligence Books for ANYONE,

April 7, 2000

Miles Copeland

This is one of my two required readings for any aspiring intelligence officer or student of intelligence (the other one is by Allen Dulles, “The Craft of Intelligence.” An absolute gem across the board, providing insights into both capabilities and culture. This is really the only down-to-earth book that combines “a day in the life of a spy” with a serious practical discussion of just how and why spies do what they do. It is fun and easy to read, and offers some real world annecdotes that do not violate security but offer instead glimpses of the joys, the insanities, and the terror (10% of the time) or boredom (90% of the time–such as spending hours if not days waiting for a senstive asset to show up) that characterize the life of a spy.

To his credit, Copeland understood very early on that the spy world was missing out on what is known today as Open Source Intelligence (see my own book, “The New Craft of Intelligence” or view the 30,000 free pages at OSS.Net). The description on pages 41-42 (of the original hard-cover version) of how “Mother” concocted an entire network and got the head of Secret Intelligence to agree its production was worth $100,000 a year (big money in 1946), only to reveal that his source was actually five issues of The New York Times “demonstrated not only the naiveté of our nation's only existing group of espionage specialists but the value of ordinary New York Times reporting on matters regarded as being of high-priority intelligence interest.” Nothing has changed in 50 years. We still need our spies, but they need to be a bit more serious, a bit less white, a lot older, and much more focused. We lack–we need–men of the caliber of Dulles and Copeland today.

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