National Strategy Information Center

US neoconservative think thank with a focus on intelligence-related issues.

Consortium for the Study of Intelligence

The Consortium for the Study of Intelligence was founded in 1979 as a project of the NSIC.

Board of directors

• Roy Godson: Professor of Government, Georgetown University. President
• Dorothy E. Nicolosi: Former Treasurer, National Strategy Information Center Vice President
• Jeffrey Berman Treasurer & Executive Director
• Omer Pace Secretary
• Reed Coleman: Chairman and CEO, Madison-Kipp
• Amado Gayol: President, Gayol and Associates
• Herb Magidson: Former Vice President, American Federation of Teachers
• John O. Marsh, Jr: Former Secretary of the Army
• Jay Mazur: President, 21st Century ILGWU Heritage Fund
• John Norton Moore: Professor of Law, Center for National Security Law, University of Virginia School of Law
• Jerald C. Newman: Former CEO, Long Island Medical Center
• Andrea Scrosati: Vice President, SKY Italia
• Allen Taylor: Chairman, Chipstone Foundation

Publications

Godson's book on how to do it

• Harold C. Hinton (c1980)The China Sea: the American stake in its future; ISBN: 0878558713

• Roy Godson(ed)[1982] Clandestine collection, ISBN: 0878558314.

• Roy Godson (ed)(1983)Intelligence requirements for the 1980's: elements of intelligence, ISBN: 087855954X.

• Herbert I. London; preface by John Tower (c1984) Military doctrine and the American character: reflections on airland battle, ISBN: 0887386148.

• İhsan Gürkan [foreword by Sinclair L. Melner](c1980) NATO, Turkey, and the southern flank, ISBN: 087855825X.

• Joyce E. Larson (ed) (1979)New foundations for Asian and Pacific security: based on the addresses, papers, reports, and discussion sessions of an international conference held at Pattaya, Thailand, December 12-16, ISBN: 0878554130.

• Marian K. Leighton (c1979) The Soviet threat to NATO's northern flank, ISBN: 0878558039.

• Alvin J. Cottrell and Michael L. Moodie (c1984) The United States and the Persian Gulf: past mistakes, present needs, ISBN: 0878559094.

Taken from ISBNdb.com

• Roy S. Godson, Elements of Intelligence, Transaction Publishers, ISBN 087855954X.

• James E. Dougherty and Paul H. Nitze and National Strategy Information Center and Francis X. Kane, The Fateful Ends and Shades of SALT: Past ... Present ... and Yet to Come, Crane, Russak, ISBN 084481332X.

• Morris Albert Adelman and National Strategy Information Center, Oil, Divestiture, and National Security, Crane, Russak, ISBN 0844810703.

• Norman Polmar and National Strategy Information Center, Strategic Weapons: An Introduction, Crane, Russak [for] National Strategy Information Center, ISBN 0844813990

These are undated and taken from BookFinder.com

AllBookstores.com states that Godson's Intelligence Requirements for the 1980's : Elements of Intelligence, is also published with the Consortium for the Study of Intelligence.

The list below is taken from National Library of Australia, and included in the list is one from the Brian Crozier run Institute for the Study of Conflict:

• Strategy papers (National Strategy Information Center) Published New York : The Center, 1969-
• The Sino-Soviet confrontation : implications for the future / Harold C. Hinton Published New York : Published by Crane, Russak [for] National Strategy Information Center, c1976
• The evolution of Soviet security strategy, 1965-1975 / Avigdor Haselkorn Published New York : Crane, Russak, c1978
• Agenda paper / National Strategy Information Center Published New York : The Center, 1974-1985
• Strategic weapons : an introduction / Norman Polmar Published New York : Crane, Russak [for] National Strategy Information Center, c1982
• The Military unbalance; is the U.S. becoming a second-class power? Published New York, National Strategy Information Center [1971]
• Trends in organized crime [electronic resource] Published New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Periodicals Consortium for the National Strategy Information Center, c1995-
• The Challenge of Soviet shippingPublished New York, NY : (111 E. 58th St., New York 10022) : National Strategy Information Center, [1982 or 1983]
• Annual of power and conflict Published London : Institute for the Study of Conflict
• The fateful ends and shades of SALT : past ... present ... and yet to come? / Paul H. Nitze, James E. Dougherty, and Francis X. Kane Published New York : Crane, Russak, c1979
• Afghan alternatives : issues, options, and policies / edited by Ralph H. Magnus Published New Brunswick, N.J., U.S.A. : Transaction Books, c1985

The list below is taken from University of Bradford

• 'Eurocommunism' : implications for East and West / by Roy Godson, Stephen Haseler ; research contributors ... (others). National Strategy Information Center. London (etc.)) : Macmillan (for the National Strategy Information Center)), 1978.
• Strategic weapons : an introduction / Norman Polmar. National Strategy Information Center. London : Crane, Russak for National Strategy Information, 1981.
• Strategic weapons : an introduction / (by) Norman Polmar. National Strategy Information Center. London : Macdonald and Jane's for National Strategy Information Center, Inc., 1976.
• Special operations in US strategy / edited by Frank R. Barnett, B. Hugh Tovar, Richard H. Shultz.

National Defense University., National Strategy Information Center. (Washington, D.C.?) : National Defense University Press in cooperation with National Strategy Information Center, Inc. :S Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O. (distributor)), 1985.

The list below is taken from McMaster University

• Trends in Organized Crime [electronic resource].

by National Strategy Information Center.

• The intelligent layperson's guide to "Star Wars" : 16 questions & answers on strategic defense and space weaponry'

Larson, Joyce E., Bodie, William C., National Strategy Information Center. National Strategy Information Center, Inc., 1986.

• Maritime strategy, geopolitics, and the defense of the West,

Gray, Colin S., National Strategy Information Center. Published in the U.S. by Ramapo Press [for] the National Strategy Information Center, c1986.

• Elements of intelligence / edited by Roy Godson.

National Strategy Information Center., Consortium for the Study of Intelligence. National Strategy Information Center ; Distributed by Transaction Books, 1983.

• Strategic weapons : an introduction

Polmar, Norman., National Strategy Information Center. Crane, Russak [for] National Strategy Information Center, c1982.

• Clandestine collection / edited by Roy Godson.

by Godson, Roy, 1942-, National Strategy Information Center., Consortium for the Study of Intelligence., Colloquium on Clandestine Collection (1981 : Washington, D.C.) National Strategy Information Center ; Distributed by Transaction Books, [1982]

• Intelligence requirements for the 1980's : covert action / edited by Roy Godson.

National Strategy Information Center., Consortium for the Study of Intelligence. National Strategy Information Center ; distributed by Transaction Books, c1981.

• Strategic options for the early eighties : what can be done?

by Van Cleave, William R., Thompson, W. Scott (Willard Scott), 1942-, National Strategy Information Center. Automated Graphic Systems, c1979.

Some other works by Godson are discussed at the The Literature of Intelligence:A Bibliography of Materials,with Essays, Reviews, and Comments

Excepts and summaries of more recent work can be found at the website of the Consortium for the Study of Intelligence (part of the NSIC) but the links do not seem to be working. The site does provide links to the 2004 Al Qaeda's Growing Sanctuary By Douglas Farah and Richard Shultz, published in the Washington Post and the 2004 Armed Groups: A Tier-One Security Priority by Richard H. Shultz, Douglas Farah, Itamara V. Lochard, USAF Institute for National Security Studies.

its page on the Working Group on Intelligence Reform lists these publications (note Joseph Nye and David Kay):

• Patrick Watson, FBI’s Changing Missions in the 1990s.

• Douglas MacEachin, Tradecraft of Analysis: Challenge and Change in the CIA.

• Abram Shulsky and Jennifer Sims, What Is Intelligence?

• Robert Kohler, The Intelligence Industrial Base: Doomed to Extinction?

• Walter Jajko, The Future of Defense Intelligence.

• L. Britt Snider with Elizabeth Rindskopf and John Coleman, Relating Intelligence and Law Enforcement: Problems and Prospects.

• William Hood, James Nolan, and Samuel Halpern, Myths Surrounding James Angleton: Lessons for American Counterintelligence.

• Henry Sokolski, Fighting Proliferation: The Role of Intelligence.

• Joseph S. Nye, Estimating the Future.

• Henry S. Rowen, Reforming Intelligence: A Market Approach.

• Randall M. Fort, Economic Espionage: Problems and Prospects.

• Roy Godson with Richard Kerr and Ernest May, Covert Action in the 1990s.

• James Q. Wilson, Thinking About Reorganization.

• David Kay, Denial and Deception: Iraq and Beyond.

Richard Shultz (seemingly the only employee of the Intelligence Consortium) has a list of his publications at his site at The Fletcher School, Tufts University

Projects

The idealist.com state that:

"The Culture of Lawfulness (COL) Project of NSIC is an educational organization that helps develop academic approaches to enhance societal involvement in supporting the rule of law. The COL Project works with school systems, Ministries of Education, non-governmental organizations, and international organizations such as the United Nations and the Organization of American States."