Richelson (a former senior fellow at the National Security Archive in Washington) presents an overview of the US intelligence apparatus, describing its collection and analysis organizations, the activities of those organizations, and the management structure responsible for directing and supervising the organizations and their activities. Qualitative judgments are generally left to the side as he presents chapters describing intelligence basics; national intelligence organizations; Defense Department intelligence organizations; military service intelligence organizations; unified command intelligence organizations; civilian intelligence organizations; imagery collection, interpretation, and dissemination; signals intelligence; measurement and signature intelligence; space surveillance; human intelligence; open sources, technical surveillances and emplaced sensors, and document and materiel exploitation; liaison with foreign services; analysts, analytical techniques, and production; counterintelligence; covert action; managing national intelligence; managing defense intelligence; managing intelligence collection, covert action, and information access; and special issues. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Read Less