The vital ingredient in the formulation and execution of a successful foreign policy is intelligence. Of the seven contributors, five have direct experience of working with or in intelligence, and all have written extensively on the subject.

Part 1 Placing the Problem in Context; Chapter 1 Controlling Intelligence, Glenn Hastedt; Chapter 2 Intelligence and the American Political System, Stafford T. Thomas; Chapter 3 Controlling the CIA, Loch K. Johnson; Part 2 Policy Areas; Chapter 4 Controlling Intelligence Estimates, Arthur S. Hulnick; Chapter 5 Controlling Intelligence, Glenn Hastedt; Chapter 6 Controlling Covert Action, Gregory F. Treverton; Chapter 7 Controlling the Security Threat, Marion T. Doss, Jr.; Part 3 A Comparative Example; Chapter 8 Restructuring Control in Canada, Stuart Farson;