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Feature: Building A Thinking Service Must Be With The Right People Part One: How Patronage Recruitment Hollows Out an Intelligence Service

Every conversation about intelligence reform eventually arrives at the same list. It’s either, Legislation, Budget, Structure, Oversight, Doctrine or Technology.

  • Recruitment is often overlooked in intelligence reform discussions.
  • Service staffed with wrong individuals fails its mission.
  • Traits for intelligence work not evident in degrees or military backgrounds.

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