Significant
obstacles standing in the way of advancing our knowledge of the operation of
intelligence organizations is the difficulty of obtaining reliable information.
The veil of secrecy surrounding their operations makes both in-depth single
event case studies and comparisons across time or countries difficult to
assemble. Consequently these studies typically are centered on situationspecific personality and politics driven narratives.
All too often unexamined
is the possibility that the actions of intelligence agencies are fully
consistent with the underlying logic of decision making found in the
organization theory literature. To the extent that this is the caseintelligence organizations can be treated as “normal” organizations withpredictable tendencies. Presented here is an exploratory analysis using
organization theory to understand the actions of one intelligence agency, the
National Security Agency
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