U.S. Intelligence: Past, Present and Future

Fall (14 hours or more) | This course is completed

10 Hilton Field Road Hanover, NH 03755 United States

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9/27/2017-11/15/2017

9:00 AM-11:00 AM EDT on Wed

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$80.00

8 sessions, 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM
September 27 through November 15, 2017
DOC House - Hanover, NH
Course Fee: $80

This course will provide an historical and critical examination of U.S. intelligence activities and institutions, including successes, failures, and their ultimate importance to national security. A review of the contributions and use of intelligence from the American Revolution to the end of World War II will precede a study of the growth, promise, and problems of the US Intelligence Community from 1946 to the present. Special attention will be paid to intelligence and the 2003 Iraq War, the NSA/Snowden affair, and the CIA “enhanced interrogation” program. As we examine these intelligence activities, we will concomitantly discuss the relationship of intelligence to US policy and oversight of intelligence activities by all three branches of the government.

The course will be a combination of lectures and discussions.

  • The required book for this course is Christopher Andrew’s For the President’s Eyes Only: Secret Intelligence and the American Presidency from Washington to Bush. Two other books, Paul Pillar’s Intelligence and US Foreign Policy: Iraq, 9/11, and Misguided Reform, and Stephen Budiansky’s Code Warriors, are optional but highly recommended.

Bill Sullivan served for 36 years as an intelligence analyst, linguist, and senior executive with the National Security Agency, including detached service tours with the Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Policy and Chairmanship of the DCI’s National Signals Intelligence Committee. Following retirement he served as a professional staff officer on the Congressional/Presidential Commission on the Roles and Capabilities of the U.S. Intelligence Community