Publisher's Synopsis
A Word about Centre for Study of Intelligence Operations Agha Humayun Amin Centre for Study of Intelligence Operations Essential Summary Based on inputs from Professor Peter Kassebaum Inspiration for creating this forum goes back to conversations with my father as early as 1969 at height of Vietnam War The tangible inspiration to create such a forum came when I attended Society of Military history USAs annual April 1996 meeting at Arlington Virginia co sponsored by Centre for Study of Intelligence of CIA history staff. Kevin .C.Ruffner was a great support in sharing much archival data.We stayed in touch till 2000 or so. Society of Military history was a big disappointment when they hesitated in accepting their journals factual and analytical failings in 2000-2004. A lesson that even so highly advanced and educated societies have biases. Not about narrow ideological IDEAS, its about spirit of pluralism as signified by habeas corpus and healthy scepticism of Bertrand Russell and exactness of Francis Bacon sans Bacons opportunism.Its a citadel of superior minds, addressing broader, really substantial issues confronting mankind ! iconoclastic individuals who can fearlessly look into a symbolic pit of hell and yet speak their minds .Lieutenant general Patrick ex head of DIA has been a most crucial moral support since 2010, earliest stages of the group.More importantly he has remained a part of the group without taking sides. That fallacious assessments can be made and no agency in mankind's history was infallible. That wisdom and intellect converge at one point where analysts detach themselves from narrow man made divisions of state, nationality, ideology, ethnicity and class. When members of this group enter this group they must leave their citizenship, religion, ethnicity and ideology in a quarantine chamber 1760 yards from this group. That intelligence agencies have been very frequently misused in history fpr personal agendas . Prof Peter Kassebaum and Mr Terry Tucker and Dr Panteleon valuable and core movers of our group . Volume includes articles by Dr Fassbender, Mr Keith Ellison and first two serialised chapters from Agha H Amins research works on Afghanistan
