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050 00 $aJK468.I6$bA84913 2003
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100 1 $aArbel, David.
240 10 $aʻIṿaron.$lEnglish
245 10 $aWestern intelligence and the collapse of the Soviet Union, 1980-1990 :$bten years that did not shake the world /$cDavid Arbel and Ran Edelist.
260 $aLondon ;$aPortland, OR :$bFrank Cass,$c2003.
300 $axiv, 338 p. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $tSurprise --$tThe Threat --$tThe Myth --$tConceptual Conformity --$tThe Great Surprise --$tThe Writing on the Wall --$tWhy the West Failed to See the Writing on the Wall --$tPolitics and Intelligence --$tThe Relevance of Strategic Intelligence --$tEpilogue: From Strategic Blind Spot to Operational Blunder.
520 1 $a"When the worst terrorist atrocity in American history occurred on September 11, 2001, the intelligence agencies of the United States and most of the western world were taken by surprise. Ten years earlier, in 1991, those same organizations were surprised when the Soviet Empire collapsed. In both cases the intelligence establishment has invested enormous resources, compiled information, wrote detailed analytical papers and yet failed to provide an early warming of the impending Soviet collapse as well as the coming terrorist attack." "This book sets out to explain why western intelligence agencies failed to diagnose the Soviet Union's terminal condition, despite the many obvious symptoms, and worse, why they failed to convey what they did know to the political echelon."--Jacket.
650 0 $aIntelligence service$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aIntelligence service$zEurope, Western$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aIntelligence service$xInternational cooperation.
651 0 $aSoviet Union$xPolitics and government$y1985-1991.
655 7 $aHistory.$2fast
700 1 $aEdelist, Ran.
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