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In this episode, I will examine what intelligence looks like from a professional perspective and why America and the West consistently engage in existential chaos avalanches that make the world a worse place.

The bureaucratic impulse in the West has been a significant factor in making the intelligence community (IC), like the military community, a paper tiger that is a far greater danger to the inhabitants of the west than an ally.

It’s time to restructure and realign the IC if America is to succeed as a free and peaceful member of nations. It will consume roughly 100 billion a year to produce shoddy analysis, inform bad policy and a Keystone Kops foreign covert/clandestine operations history that is a national shame.

Time to level the entire national IC in a controlled demolition and don’t replace cancer if found, kill it.

If you leveled the FBI, NSA and CIA tomorrow morning, made each of their budgets one dollar and fired all their employees, you would still be safe as a country.

References:

Randolph H. Pherson and Richards J. Heuer Jr Structured Analytic Techniques for Intelligence Analysis 3 Ed

Richard J. Heuer Jr The Psychology of Intelligence Analysis

David Talbot The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government

Roger Z. George (Ed, et al) Analyzing Intelligence: National Security Practitioners’ Perspectives

Tim Weiner Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA

John Prado The Ghosts of Langley: Into the CIA’s Heart of Darkness

John Prado Safe for Democracy: The Secret Wars of the CIA

Mortimer Adler How to Read a Book

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At the time, Henry Lewis Stimson was the U.S. Secretary of War, and in the 1946 “Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack” Stimson’s diary is brought into evidence. On page 177, the report cites a diary entry from November 25, 1941, almost two weeks before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Stimson wrote,

General Marshall and I went to the White House, where we were until nearly half past one. At the meeting were [Secretary of State Cordell] Hull, [Secretary of the Navy Frank] Knox, [Chief of Staff of the Army George C.] Marshall, [Chief of Naval Operations Harold Raynsford] Stark, and myself.

The President brought up the event that we were likely to be attacked, perhaps (as soon as) next Monday, for the Japanese are notorious for making an attack without warning, and the question was what we should do. The question was how we should maneuver them into the position of firing the first shot without allowing too much danger to ourselves...

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