Peake, Hayden B. The Reader's Guide to Intelligence Periodicals. Washington:
National Intelligence Book Center, 1992. 250 pages. With a foreword by
Walter Pforzheimer.
In the Washington DC area one finds a subculture of semi-retired
intelligence-community officials who are now actively promoting the study
of intelligence as a scholarly discipline. Hayden Peake (Georgetown), a
former DIA and CIA officer, and Walter Pforzheimer (Yale), former assistant
general counsel at the CIA and expert on intelligence history, are two
examples. Elizabeth Bancroft (Harvard), the publisher of this volume,
also fits the mold: upper-class and/or Ivy League without pretense or
apology, and supportive of a stronger U.S. intelligence community with
less oversight from the hoi polloi. They are polite and professional,
believe everything written by Soviet defectors, and raise an eyebrow only
when you have an appreciative word for someone like Philip Agee. These days
this subculture is the only game in town on intelligence issues.
Peake has collected information (including addresses and telephone
numbers) on 155 intelligence periodicals, newsletters, and databases from
the U.S., Canada, and Europe. The task of tracking down all this esoterica
would overwhelm most bibliophiles, but then he goes on to offer well-written,
interesting descriptions averaging almost two pages for each. In the course
of these, individuals are named who could be of interest to NameBase users.
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