Tutorial

Analysis of Intelligence and Ethics

Melvin Goodman

Melvin A. Goodman will compare the politicization of intelligence on the Soviet Union in the 1980s to the politicization of intelligence on Iraq in the run-up to the Iraqi War in 2003. Goodman will examine various techniques of politicization, including the use of single-source intelligence, flawed human intelligence, and management of the intelligence process to demonstrate the importance of personal responsibility in the field of intelligence analysis. Goodman will also argue that the post-9/11 intelligence reforms did not provide guarantees against future politicization, and that the creation of an intelligence czar has only added to the potential problems.

Melvin A. Goodman

Senior Fellow, Center for International Policy 1995-
Adjunct Professor of Government, Johns Hopkins University, 1995-
Professor of International Relations, National War College, 1986-2004
Central Intelligence Agency, 1966-1990
State Department, 1974-1976

Books by Goodman

The Decline and Fall of the CIA, Roman and Littlefield (forthcoming)
Lessons of the Cold War, Penn State Press, (forthcoming)
Bush League Diplomacy: Putting the Nation At Risk, Prometheus, 2004
The Phantom Defense, Praeger, 2001
National Insecurity: US Intelligence Reform, Temple University Press, 2000
The Wars of Eduard Shevardnadze, Penn State Press, 1997; and Brassey's, 2001 (revised and updated)
The End of Superpower Conflict in theThird World, Westview Press, 1993
Gorbachev's Retreat: The Third World, Praeger Publishers, 1991