reviews the reviews of intelligence books in other publications —
“a new art-form which might make some small contribution to keeping such reviewers more honest — or at least forcing them to read the book in question all the way through.”
IQ’s chief competitor is the Foreign Intelligence Literary Scene, which, with a change of editorship in 1986, seems to have lost whatever independence it may have had from those running the U.S.
agencies. Book reviews fill most of the page-space; there’s also a
regular listing of recent intelligence-related articles in the establishment press.
First Principles fights the impulse to use the legitimate need for secrecy in intelligence work to conceal illegal activities and
