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Sherman Kent and the Board of National Estimates
Collected Essays[1]
Sherman Kent
Table of Contents
* Foreward
* Introduction
Sherman Kent
* A Tribute to Sherman Kent
The Theory of Intelligence
* The Need for an Intelligence Literature
* Valediction
* Estimates and Influence
* The Law and Custom of the National Intelligence Estimate
o I. The Institutional Framework
o II. The Making of an NIE
o Appendix A. Glossary of Abbreviations
o Appendix B. CIA Organization and Functions
The Office of National Estimates
o Appendix C. Membership of the Board of National Estimates
The Praxis of Intelligence
* Words of Estimative Probability
* The First Year of the Office of National Estimates:
The Directorship of William L. Langer
* The Summit Conference of 1960: An Intelligence Officer's View
* A Crucial Estimate Relived
* The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962: Presenting the Photographic Evidence Abroad
* Glossary of Abbreviations
Sherman Kent is a larger than life figure in the history of the Central Intelligence Agency. His vigorous tenure as chairman of the Board of National Estimates from 1952 to 1967 was a major formative influence on the way that the Central Intelligence Agency and Intelligence Community prepare and present National Intelligence Estimates. Because of Sherman Kent's importance in the development of the American intelligence profession, the CIA History Staff is publishing this selection of his recently declassified writings on the occasion of the Conference on Estimating Soviet Military Power, 1950--1984, which Harvard University's Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History and the CIA's Center for the Study of Intelligence are cosponsoring in Cambridge in December 1994.
After he retired as chairman of the Board of National Estimates at the end of 1967, Sherman Kent wrote a number of...