Central Intelligence Agency. Studies in Intelligence: Index 1955-1992. 63 pages.

Studies in Intelligence is an internal CIA journal founded in 1955 by Sherman Kent, a Yale professor who became the godfather of the intelligence analysts. This is the academic wing of U.S. intelligence, where analysts see themselves as disciplined professionals. According to Kent, intelligence "has developed a recognized methodology; it has developed a vocabulary; it has developed a body of theory and doctrine; it has elaborate and refined techniques. It now has a large professional following. What it lacks is a literature.... The most important service that such a literature performs is the permanent recording of our new ideas and experiences." Kent saw this journal as a "rudimentary step towards making our findings cumulative."

This index covers nearly 1000 originally unclassified or subsequently declassified articles and book reviews published from 1955 to 1992. Most of this material wasn't available to the public until recently. It includes about 250 names of contributors, along with the title and date of their contribution. (The book reviews, which are listed in this index by book author but not by reviewer, were not entered in NameBase.) Copies of the individual articles listed in this index are available from the Military Reference Branch (NNRM), Textual Reference Division, National Archives and Record Administration, Washington DC 20408.

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