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Why Spy?: Espionage in an Age of Uncertainty Why Spy?: Espionage in an Age of Uncertainty (Free) Why Spy?: Espionage in an Age of Uncertainty Why Spy?: Espionage in an Age of Uncertainty PCTezw2mf Why Spy?: Espionage in an Age of Uncertainty p37ZH6FrD JP-56342 JoLvjSCuv USmix/Data/US-2009 OeUTYKRjJ 5/5 From 564 Reviews soLwTcQYc Frederick Hitz ZztfAIseM DOC | *audiobook | ebooks | Download PDF | ePub rsNu8fMUN TvkcXsDSY 8OYwWZCvZ og7HPCOt2 0Vr2ZW8Nu Tn6ep73D7 je4SRZGUG 4WcIBSHC5 0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. This was a great read with a r5sDcmICc lot of great informationBy Taylor SThis was a great read with a lot of great DGpH8XFrV information. Hitz spoke about what spying is and how it works in a quick dirty kQHJRTD3A rundown and spoke about why we still spy. He covered the subject of how XUzrkspis espionage has changed over the years and why it needs to change. Great book.7 4c6CZ82N1 of 8 people found the following review helpful. A Lawyer with IntelligenceBy Em5p5LM28 Retired ReaderThis book provides a remarkably informed discussion of XOwbwlYhO intelligence operations at CIA. Its author Fredrick P. Hitz was Inspector nYV2LrnRt General (IG) at CIA from 1990-1998, a position that would certainly give him a QbbmDtX7S different view of the agency. Some years prior to that he was a legal counsel at MuMJCRv0E CIA. In short, this book represents a lawyer's eye view of CIA and its role in the Z7EerKFpI U.S. intelligence system.First Hitz makes an important distinction between WsVPh6zoo "intelligence", which he sees as the end product of CIA and "espionage" which MpV3hLuMV he defines as gathering information from human sources (agents) by what he TcnxTzm8f refers to as agent runners or handlers or, as CIA prefers, intelligence officers. He correctly sees intelligence products as the result of analysis and collation of pieces of information acquired through espionage, technical means, or open sources. Indeed unique among most writers on intelligence issues, Hitz offers that open source information contributes a whooping 95 per cent of most intelligence questions and that secret sources contribute only about 5 per cent. This is a startling claim, but most objective evidence appears to bear it out. (See particularly the books of Robert D. Steele). Yet Hitz also makes clear that secret intelligence is often the vital ingredient that makes an intelligent product truly useful to policy makers and warfighters.Hitz covers a broad set of subjects in this book from his perceptions of why people will become spies (i.e. espionage agents) to questions of analytic tradecraft and CIA management. Rather interestingly, during his tenure as CIA IG he notes the precipitous decline CIA's ability to engage in espionage that was commented on by such former intelligence officers Robert Baer and the pseudonymous Ishmael Jones. Like them he attributes this to the culture of risk avoidance that plagues CIA to this day and to the loss of experienced intelligence officers. He also observes that the CIA Directors during his tenure were ineffective and often clueless. His views on post 9/11 intelligence developments and attempted reforms are both balanced and well thought out. He has some particularly cogent ideas about such things as the Patriot Act and domestic spying in any form. In his discussion of intelligence reform, Hitz tends to be cautious and avoids sweeping ideas on changing the U.S. Intelligence System. Finally, a warning to readers who tend to view any book on government through partisan spectacles, Hitz did not write this book as a critique of the administration of any president. The book is a discussion of how a lawyer who was on the inside views the processes of the U.S. Intelligence System. As such it is an indispensible guide to how the espionage portion of the intelligence system really works.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. The Real DealBy JCExcellent follow up to the first Hitz book about the CIA practices and the real world. nothing like the movies! A sure must read for the fans of the USA Burn Notice shows... What motivates someone to risk his or her life in the shadowy, often dangerous world of espionage? What are the needs and opportunities for spying amid the "war on terrorism"? And how can the United States recruit spies to inform its struggle with Islamic fundamentalists' acts of anti-Western jihad?Drawing on over twenty-five years of experience, Frederick P. Hitz, a former inspector general of the Central Intelligence Agency, guides the reader through the byzantine structure of the U.S. intell ....
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