Transforming U.s. Intelligence

Current and former operatives and researchers in the US intelligence community consider resolutions of problems they find to have been exposed by 9/11, and identify challenges other than terrorism that US intelligence will face in the coming decades. They focus on transformative solutions that combine technology with creative tactics and strategies to attain exponential growth in capabilities. Military intelligence is not covered. Produced in cooperation with the Center for Peace and Security Studies at Georgetown University. Annotation c2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Jennifer E. Sims is a visiting professor with the security studies program at Georgetown University. She has served on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and in the Department of State as a senior intelligence officer. She has published a number of works on intelligence and arms control, including Icarus Restrained: An Intellectual History of Nuclear Arms Control, 1945-1960.

Burton Gerber had a distinguished career for 39 years, most of it overseas, as an operations officer in the Central Intelligence Agency. He served with distinction in some of the most challenging overseas posts, including as Station Chief in Moscow during the Cold War. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the recipient of CIA's Distinguished Intelligence Medal and other CIA honors. Mr. Gerber, at the request of U.S. Government agencies and other organizations, often lectures on ethics as related to public policy and intelligence. He is also a frequent guest lecturer with Georgetown University's Security Studies Program.