May 9th, 2006 by zen

CURRENTLY READING

Curing Analytic Pathologies:Pathways to Improved Intelligence Analysis by Jeffrey R. Cooper.

If, like me, you enjoy contemplating issues of human cognition, intelligence analysis, reforming the CIA and IC bureaucratic culture, you will probably find this a fascinating read. If not…well…it is 73 pages of what I just described. :O)

Hat tip to Defense Tech.

Hat tip to Secrecy News ( which I will soon add to the blogroll).

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  1. larry dunbar:

    May 10th, 2006 at 9:54 pm

    The report does seem to explain why Goss had to go. If I am not mistaken Goss represented reform, which is not what this report calls for.

    Those military guys seem to be good at transformation, so maybe Hayden is the right choice after all. I hope it is not too little too late.

  2. mark:

    May 11th, 2006 at 2:15 pm

    Hi Larry,

    Goss unfortunately had many problems, I don’t think any one in particular killed him so much as he was paralyzed by their entirety.

    The CIA’s future is in more doubt now than back in 1992.

  3. larry dunbar:

    May 11th, 2006 at 10:56 pm

    I guess, by what you say, Hayden is a reformer. Too bad, I hope red teams will give the military controlled CIA enough of a liberal view to enable proper horizontal thinking.
    While I assume there are many horizontal thinkers in the military (especially as good as the military seems to be at transformation) it might be hard for them to maintain a liberal viewpoint. That is if all the military is like the Marine Corp. I have found, in my life, that once a Marine always a Marine, which is not a bag thing. I have always been jealous of their commitment. It is just hard, I would imagine, to think the unthinkable unless you are able to completely free your mind of all bias. Red teams may accomplish this much needed mindset.