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On the Limits of HUMINT and Political Intelligence (opens the original)
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In an earlier post, I noted that by the mid-1980s, the CIA only had a dedicated staff of some 30 analysts to cover all of Sub-Saharan Africa, located in its Office of African and Latin American Analysis (ALA). North Africa was covered as part of the Office of Near Eastern and South Asian Analysis (NESA) whose staff totaled around 100, although I don’t know how many of those focused on North African issues.Compared to the roughly 400 analysts covering the USSR alone, this was a clear indication o
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