Gries,
David. "The CIA and Congress: Uneasy Partners." In Extracts
from Studies in Intelligence to Commemorate the Bicentennial of the United
States Constitution, 77-84. Washington, DC: Central Intelligence
Agency, 1987.
Gries,
David. "The CIA and Congress: Uneasy Partners." In Extracts
from Studies in Intelligence to Commemorate the Bicentennial of the United
States Constitution, 77-84. Washington, DC: Central Intelligence
Agency, 1987.
[Oversight][c]
Gries,
David. "Intelligence in the 1990s." Studies in Intelligence
35, no. 1 (Spring 1991): 5-11.
[Reform/90s]
Gries, David.
"New Links Between Intelligence and Policy." Studies in Intelligence
34, no. 2 (Summer 1990): 1-6. In Inside CIA's Private World: Declassified
Articles from the Agency's Internal Journal, 1955-1992, ed. H. Bradford
Westerfield, 357-365. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1995.
Gries points to the increased importance of the "oral assessments," growing out of the expansion over time of contacts between intelligence officers and policymakers. Such contacts include meetings, briefings, and less structured channels. With specific exceptions, written assessments "today mainly influence the policy process indirectly. Senior intelligence officers and the staffs that support policy officers are now their principal readers."
[GenPostwar/Issues/Policy][c]
Gries,
David. "A New Look for Intelligence." Intelligence and National
Security 10, no. 1 (Jan. 1995): 170-183.
There are several key issues regarding the U.S. Intelligence Community that require further attention. These include "the need to clarify organizational relationships, increase public accountability, simplify classification practices, and adjust several core activities."
[Reform/90s][c]
Gries, David
D. "Opening Up Secret Intelligence." Orbis 37, no. 3 (Summer
1993): 365-372.
ProQuest: "The CIA's efforts to relax its tradition of secrecy and adjust to public oversight are discussed.... New public uses of intelligence information must be included in the CIA's policy."
[Reform/90s/CIA]
Gries, David D. "Openness and Secrecy: A Basic Tension." Studies in Intelligence 37, no. 5 (1994): 33-35.
'The task before intelligence agencies now is to build higher fences around fewer secrets, limiting protection only to sources and methods that merit it, while disclosing as much as possible of everything else."
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