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<p>American Presidents make decisions on war unaware that the human source intelligence provided by the CIA is often false or nonexistent. From Harry Truman during the Korean War to George Bush during the War on Terror, modern Presidents have faced their darkest moments as a result of poor intelligence. The CIA has assured Congress and the President that intelligence programs in hostile areas of the world are thriving when they simply do not exist.</p> <p>The CIA is a broken, Soviet-style bureaucracy with its own agenda: to consume federal funds, to expand within the United States, to feign activity, and to enrich current and former employees. After 9/11, billions of dollars by Congress to increase the number of officers working deep cover on foreign streets have disappeared without the CIA fielding a single additional productive officer overseas.</p> <p>The Human Factor makes the case for intelligence reform, showing the career of an accomplished deep cover CIA case officer who struggled not with finding human sources of secret information in rogue nations, but with the CIA's bloated, dysfunctional, even cancerous bureaucracy. After initial training in the US, Ishmael Jones spent

Who reads The human factor: inside the CIA's dysfunctional intelligence culture?

Author

Jones, Ishmael

Publisher

New York : Encounter Books

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9781594032233

Category

history

Subjects

Political Science, Fiction, True Crime

Rating

3.86 / 5 (120 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14