Tensions in Analyst-Policymaker Relations: Opinions, Facts, and Evidence. The Sherman Kent Center for Intelligence Analysis Occasional Papers. Volume 2, Number 2.

摘要

This memorandum on tensions in analyst-policymaker relations is occasioned by recent media accounts of DOD-Intelligence Community differences over the extent of Iraqi-al Qa'ida ties. Similar patterns of tension have existed over the decades. The following conclusions could have been crafted about Vietnam War issues in the 1960s, Soviet strategic intentions i the 1970s, or Central American insurgencies in the l980s.