REFERENCE MATERIALS

Teaching about Intelligence

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The Association for Intelligence Officers (AFIO -- formerly the Association of Former Intelligence Officers) has an Academic Exchange Program (AEP) that can be very useful in building and maintaining a course or courses on intelligence and related areas. For a list of participants and their institutions, see http://www.afio.com/12_academic_instructors.htm. Access to course syllabi is available through http://www.afio.com/12_academic_courses.htm. As a matter of truth in presentation, it should be noted that this writer has been a participant in the AEP program.

Clauser, Jerome K., and Elton S. Carter. The Design of an Intelligence Education: Assessment of Intelligence Educational and Training Requirements. State College, PA: H.R.B. Singer, 1965. [Petersen]

Cline, Marjorie W., ed. Teaching Intelligence in the Mid-1980s: A Survey of College and University Courses on the Subject of Intelligence. Washington, DC: National Intelligence Study Center, 1985.

Updated by Fontaine, Teaching Intelligence in the Mid-1990s.

Consortium for the Study of Intelligence. Resource Reports on Intelligence for Teaching Faculty. Washington, DC: National Strategy Information Center, 1988. Rev. ed. Washington, DC: National Strategy Information Center, 1992.

Surveillant 3.1 calls the revised edition a "valuable guide for instructors teaching courses on intelligence or for use in personal research."

Corpora, Christopher A. "The Stone and Quarry: Intelligence Studies in a Dynamic Global Environment." American Intelligence Journal 25, no. 2 (Winter 2007-2008): 12-23.

The author suggests "ways for intelligence studies to become a fuller research program that reflects on the profession and its observers." He argues for "a broader, multidisciplinary approach that aims to test fundamental assumptions."

Cummins, Alex. "Ten Years of Graduate Intelligence Education with a SIGINT Twist." Defense Intelligence Journal 9, no. 2 (Summer 2000): 75-80.

The Joint Military Intelligence College (JMIC) and the National Security Agency Graduate Center offer eligible NSA employees a Master of Science in Strategic Intelligence (MSSI) degree.

Davies, Philip H. J. "Assessment BASE: Simulating National Intelligence Assessment in a Graduate Course." International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 19, no. 4 (Winter 2006-2007): 721-736.

Discusses the "highly demanding, semester-long simulation of the British model of national intelligence assessment, designated the Brunel Analytical Simulation Exercise (BASE)." The simulation is taught at Brunel University in its Master’s degree in Intelligence and Security Studies (MA/ISS), "as part of a wider program of initiatives tied to the establishment of the Brunel University Centre for Intelligence and Security Studies (BCISS)."

Dorando, Peter J. "For College Courses in Intelligence." Studies in Intelligence 4, no. 3 (Summer 1960): A15-A19.

Some years (decades) would pass before this author's wish for serious academic treatment of intelligence, beginning with a basic course of study, would be realized. Nevertheless, the reasons for doing so that the author offers here remain valid.

Fontaine, Judith M. Teaching Intelligence in the Mid-1990s: A Survey of College and University Courses on the Subject of Intelligence. Washington, DC: National Intelligence Study Center, 1992.

This book lists college and university courses taught in the United States (by state) and Canada, which specifically mention intelligence and have a substantial intelligence-related context. Eight selected syllabi are also presented, together with their required texts and additional reading lists. This is an indispensable "I-am-not-alone" publication for individuals teaching in the subject area.

Fry, Michael G., and Miles Hochstein. "Epistemic Communities: Intelligence Studies and International Relations." Intelligence and National Security 8, no. 3 (Jul. 1993): 14-28.

"[I]ntelligence studies have been and remain a very modest part of the intellectual agenda of the international relations community."

George, Roger Z., and Robert D. Kline, eds. Intelligence and the National Security Strategist: Enduring Issues and Challenges. Washington, DC: National Defense University Press, 2004.

According to Peake, Studies 49.2 (2005), "[t]he 39 chapters in this 10-part reader should provide the foundation for a variety of college-level courses on intelligence. They pull together often hard to find articles by a diverse group of professionals.... Scholars are urged to consult this work for a comprehensive overview of this complex profession -- intelligence."

Medby, NWCR 58.4 (Autumn 2005), says that these "essays by an impressive list of authors address[] many of the issues especially salient to intelligence practitioners and their consumers in this time of reflection and reform.... [T]his book is remarkably valuable to any course dealing with the intelligence community."

Godson, Roy, ed. Comparing Foreign Intelligence: The U.S., the USSR, the U.K. and the Third World. Washington, DC: Pergamon-Brassey's, 1988.

Goodman, Michael S. "Studying and Teaching About Intelligence: The Approach in the United Kingdom." Studies in Intelligence 50, no. 2 (2006): 57-65.

"[I]n the United Kingdom the modern intelligence establishment can trace its roots to 1909. As an academic discipline, the subject really only extends to the mid-1970s.... The key events of the early 21st century have already defined intelligence as a new cornerstone of government.... One consequence of this has been the large-scale growth of intelligence study and teaching academically.... Yet a review of teaching practices in the United Kingdom today suggests that intelligence studies is one of those odd disciplines that is comfortable in a variety of academic departments, but perhaps never truly at home in any of them."

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