The Craft Of Intelligence

If the experts could point to any single book as a source for understanding twentieth-century intelligence, that book would be allen w. Dulles’s the craft of intelligence. This classic of spycraft is based on dulles’s incomparable experience as a diplomat, international lawyer, and america’s premier intelligence officer. Dulles was a high-ranking officer of the cias predecessor the office of strategic services and served eight years as director of the newly created cia.in the craft of intelligence, dulles reveals how intelligence is collected and processed, and how the results contribute to the formation of national policy. He discusses methods of surveillance and the usefulness of defectors from hostile nations. His knowledge of cold war soviet espionage techniques is unrivaled, and he explains how the soviet state security service recruited operatives and planted illegals in foreign countries. (published in collaboration with the lyons press, usa)