INTELLIGENCE ANALYSIS AND THE CIA – A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE. THE DOINGS, THE CRITICS, AND THE UNEXPECTED DISSOLUTION OF ORE – OFFICE OF REPORTS AND ESTIMATES (1947-1950)
INTELLIGENCE ANALYSIS AND THE CIA – A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE. THE DOINGS, THE CRITICS, AND THE UNEXPECTED DISSOLUTION OF ORE – OFFICE OF REPORTS AND ESTIMATES (1947-1950)

Summary/Abstract: Intelligence analysis is inextricably linked to the CIA, where it was established and developed as a specific professional activity. Based on a short-lived experience, accumulated during World War II, the CIA’s first analytical structure, the Office of Reports and Estimates (ORE), faced the difficulty of producing intelligence products on the new security environment of the early Cold War period, with the focus on the threat posed by the USSR.

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