32 The Impact of US Intelligence Community Strategic Culture on Intelligence Analysts

Rob Johnston and Judith Meister Johnston

DOI: 10.4324/9781003010302-36

Strategic Culture and US Intelligence Analysts

This chapter is intended to examine how the strategic culture of the US Intelligence Community impacts the individual intelligence analysts within it, with a particular eye toward the influence of the heavily elite-based membership of the Intelligence Community, and how individual analysts, in turn, impact and carry on the organizational and strategic culture of the community. While some of the details will seem overly generalized, this work is derived from personal fieldwork as an anthropologist in the Intelligence Community and from experience ...

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