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...Greg Treverton, director of the Rand Corp. Center for Global Risk and Security, says the problem isn't that Intellipedia can't produce NIEs but that decision makers rely too heavily on such reports to begin with. "There's much too much concentration on finished intelligence," Treverton says. "Intelligence analysis should be a sense-making exercise, a process of working on problems and trying to get sharper at them. Intellipedia is ideal for that. If you slice it at any given time, you are saying, 'Here is the best state of understanding at the moment...
Doubts must still linger. A CIA analyst will be part of the K-School research team, and his role is as yet undefined. How will he aid such eminent scholars as Professors Richard Neustadt, Ernest May and Gregory Treverton? Given the inherent tension between a highly secretive, intelligence-gathering branch of the government and a private research institution, the role of this analyst needs to be spelled out so as to prevent abuses of academic freedom that might benefit only...
...would be foolish to maintain that the CIA has not acted objectionably in the past. But it has done so at the behest of leaders who failed to understand that America's interests abroad almost always fall with those on the side of "democracy." Professors Neustadt, May and Treverton can only help the CIA do its job of advising America's leaders where the interests of democracy...
...conferences will be taught and researchdone by Harvard faculty members Ernest May, WarrenProfessor of History, Richard Neustadt, DillonProfessor of Government and Gregory F. Treverton,a lecturer at the K-School...
Neither Allison, who is a consultant for the Defense Department, nor Treverton, a former staff member of the NSC, could be reached for comment...