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""Lost Promise"" describes and criticises the Directorate of Intelligence of the Central Intelligence Agency - the analytical arm of the Agency. Gentry first describes the DI's historical role and avowed mission, and by so doing sets a standard for comparison with the troubled operations of the DI since the early 1980s. He proposes an 18 point reform programme and helps to lift the fog that surrounds the CIA and protects it from serious external evaluation. Gentry ventures to correct misunderstandings about CIA analysis and explains how analysis can become biased or politicised. ""Lost Promise"" presents a framework for evaluating intelligence analysis in general, using the DI as a case study.

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...worth every penny for the appendices alone.--Open Source Solutions, Inc. Covertaction RQ^RLost Promise is one of the most critical books about the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to be published in recent years....Lost Promise constitutes a genuine attempt to analyse and fix what is wrong with an arm of government that costs millions of dollars to administer and which, according to Gentry, neither furnishes the President with timely intelligence nor provides the taxpayer with value for money. Clearly, it cannot have been easy to write Lost Promise and it must have taken considerable courage and personal sacrifice to do so....Lost Promise^I is a timely book that should be of considerable interest to all those who are currently involved in pondering the role that intelligence should play in the twenty-first century....--Open Source Solutions, Inc. The book is evidence that Gentry is no rabble-rousing misfit with a mistaken agenda. He lays out his argument with straightforward clarity, even restraint. His reasoned account of what has been going on in CIA in the last decade and more couldn't be more factual, less sensationalized.--Durham, N.C. HERALD-SUN This book may give ex-Director of Central Intelligence George Bush and [former] DCI R. James Woolsey indigestion. A must for students and critics of the CIA.--Durham, N.C. HERALD-SUN Covertaction ...worth every penny for the appendices alone.>>>>--Open Source Solutions Covertaction

This book may give ex-Director of Central Intelligence George Bush and [former] DCI R. James Woolsey indigestion. A must for students and critics of the CIA.>>>>--Durham Covertaction

This book may give ex-Director of Central Intelligence George Bush and [former] DCI R. James Woolsey indigestion. A must for students and critics of the CIA.--Durham Covertaction

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