Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

v. 1. Understanding the hidden side of government. An introduction t o the intelligence literature / Loch K. Johnson -- Cloaks, daggers, and ivory towers : why academics don't study U.S. intelligence / Amy B. Ze gart -- Studying intelligence : a British perspective / Timothy Gibbs - - Democratic deficit be damned : the executive use of legislators to sc rutinize national security in Canada / Stuart Farson and Reg Whitaker - - Sources and methods in the study of intelligence : a British view / L en Scott -- Searching where the light shines? An American view of metho ds for the study of intelligence / Michael Warner -- The challenges for intelligence analysis / John Hollister Hedley -- The intelligence-poli cy nexus / James J. Wirtz -- Sorting the wood from the trees : were 9/1 1 and Iraq "intelligence failures"? / Peter Gill -- Intelligence of the past : intelligence for the future / Harold M. Greenberg -- National i ntelligence in the age of transparency / Kristin M. Lord -- Appendixes. Intelligence excerpts from the National Security Act of 1947 -- A brie f history of U.S. intelligence -- The U.S. intelligence community 1985. The U.S. intelligence community 2006. The organization of the Central Intelligence Agency, with details on the Directorate for Intelligence-- home of the CIA's analysts -- An aerial photograph of the Central Intel ligence Agency, 1996 -- Leadership of the U.S. intelligence community, 1947-2006 -- The need for intelligence literature / Sherman Kent -- The Aspin-Brown Commission on the purposes and challenges of intelligence -- A tale of counterintelligence. The defections of Dr. John / Delmege Trimble.