Making The (Right) Connections: A Cautionary Account Of WMD Intelligence
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Can an intelligence service find hidden weapons of mass destruction if it doesn't recognize WMD in plain sight?
This hard-hitting monograph, exploiting recent declassification of Cold War materials, presents a timely case study of US intelligence performance. It details intelligence analysis at work, illustrating realities of inquiry, the convolutions and uncertainties, the known, the missed, the forgotten. Intelligence mirage and reality
are contrasted, with the intricate array of made, mishandled, and missed connections providing the unifying
theme. The monograph itself constitutes an intelligence report, reassessing evidence to reach a new
conclusion—one unnoticed by contemporaries, and revealed here for the first time.
Intelligence outcomes during missile crises of the late 1950s-early 1960s, and 1980s, are examined
and contrasted in this insider's account. Deployments of Soviet long-range nuclear missiles to the German
Democratic Republic (East Germany) targeted critical American and NATO assets in Britain, West Germany, Spain, as well
as in other European countries—in the first crisis, undetected by Western intelligence services. The account
will alter the historical perspective of US intelligence success regarding the October 1962 Cuban missile
confrontation. Intelligence misconstruing of information from one of its best agents, Soviet officer Oleg Penkovsky,
is noteworthy. Imagery, clandestine source reporting, and recent Russian revelations are meshed to provide a revised picture of events. The account imparts caveats for historians, and policy analysts evaluating contemporary WMD
issues, and is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the vagaries of intelligence analysis. Much of
the material has never before been publicly revealed.
28 pages—21 photographs—map—drawings
The monograph is available as an electronic download (Adobe Reader eBook) ISBN 9781881625247 (1881625249) and in print format ISBN 9781881625223 (1881625222)
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