ABSTRACT
For many reasons, the United States was the last major power to get into the intelligence analysis business. After all, two great oceans protected America from foreign dangers. Then, too, the United States was different – it did not engage in power politics, or so its citizens thought. For decades Americans were content with those certainties. It took World War I's experience for President Woodrow Wilson to admit that he had previously thought that Germany was the only power that employed spies, and even thereafter Secretary Henry Stimson grumbled that gentlemen did not read other people's mail.
