Foreign Intelligence Literary Scene. Published by the National Intelligence
Study Center, 1800 K Street NW, Suite 1102, Washington DC 20006, Tel:
202-466-6029. Subscriptions are included with NISC membership ($50/year).
FILS is a very unique, rather esoteric, highbrow newsletter that has
appeared bi-monthly in 12 dense pages since 1982. Until 1986 it was edited
by its founder, Thomas F. Troy, and since then has been published by NISC
under the editorship of Marjorie Cline (Ray Cline is president of NISC).
Selected names that appeared in FILS were entered into NameBase beginning in
1985, but by 1989 we started losing interest. We were looking for new names
of former or current intelligence professionals, and after a few years we
felt that we already had most of what we were going to get. It's safe to say
that no one else reads FILS for the same reason, so our current lack of
interest has no particular significance.
FILS readers tend to be intelligence analysts, or academics and
historians with a keen interest in intelligence issues. They went to the
right schools, they prefer footnotes and bibliographies, and most are
probably multilingual and socially well-connected. They are elitist in that
they believe in a strong intelligence community that finds them on the
inside and the masses without a "need to know" on the outside. We find them
to be tolerant and congenial when busy producing a newsletter, but if they
were running the world we might have more than a few complaints.
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