The former director of the Central Intelligence Agency looks back on the long and complicated relationship between the U.S. presidents and their CIA chiefs, from World War II to the present day, analyzing the decisions that have shaped the intelligence community, how intelligence gathering works, and how politics and personal issues interfere with government business. Reprint.

Product Description: The Cold War may be over, but you wouldn’t know it from the tens of thousands of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons of mass destruction still held by Russia, the United States, and other world powers. Arguing that the time has come to dispense with incremental approaches to arms control, Admiral Stansfield Turner, the former head of the CIA and an experienced senior military commander, proposes a practical yet safe plan—strategic escrow—that would move the world into a new and secure millennium...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The Cold War may be over, but you wouldn’t know it from the tens of thousands of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons of mass destruction still held by Russia, the United States, and other world powers. Arguing that the time has come to dispense with incremental approaches to arms control, Admiral Stansfield Turner, the former head of the CIA and an experienced senior military commander, proposes a practical yet safe plan that would move the world into a new and secure millennium...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Volume XXVII continues the major themes from previous volumes of the series including President as Political Leader, the President and Communication, Organizing Approaches to Policymaking, the President and the International Setting, and the President and Public Philosophy.

Using his own experience during the Iran Hostage crisis, a former CIA director offers an examination of the United States' failed and successful policies regarding terrorism, specifically discussing the Iran-Contra scandal

The director of the CIA during the Carter addministration explores past abuses of the U.S. intelligence apparatus, describes the radically redesigned system structured to avoid such abuses, and analyzes the problems besetting the intelligence community when he became CIA director in 1977