The CIA was created by Congress in 1947 in response to the lack of inter-agency communication before Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941. “As assessments grounded in fact are being shelved in favor of ...

Can the intelligence community come to grips with the myths that it has created about itself? The Trump administration seeks to hold the US intelligence community accountable for its part in a ...

Richard K. Betts is an adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, emeritus professor at Columbia University, and author of Enemies of Intelligence. There is universal agreement in ...

Every morning over breakfast in early 1942, the infamous German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel received a classified intelligence briefing. The reports detailed British troop positions, supply routes, ...