Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

v. 5. Intelligence and accountability : safeguards against the abuse of secret power : intelligence and the quest for security. Congression al oversight of the CIA in the early Cold War, 1947-63 / David M. Barre tt -- Intelligence oversight : the Church Committee / Frederick A. O. S chwarz Jr. -- A conversation with former DCI William E. Colby, spymaste r during the "year of the intelligence wars" / Loch K. Johnson -- The B ritish experience with intelligence accountability / Mark Phythian -- D ocumentary evidence for differences between American and British approa ches to intelligence / Lawrence J. Lamanna -- More perfect oversight : intelligence oversight and reform / Cynthia M. Nolan -- Intelligence ac countability : a comparative perspective / Hans Born and Ian Leigh -- T he coin of intelligence accountability / A. Denis Clift -- A half centu ry of spy watching / Harry Howe Ransom -- Appendixes. A Senate Select C ommittee on Intelligence report on oversight experiences, 1947-93 -- Th e Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 -- The Intelligence Ove rsight Act of 1980 -- The Intelligence Oversight Act of 1991 -- House P ermanent Select Committee on Intelligence conclusions on intelligence o versight, 1996 -- 9/11 Commission conclusions on intelligence oversight , 2004 -- Documents on intelligence funding -- Remarks on intelligence oversight, DCI Robert M. Gates, 1993.