1. Politics, the CIA, and the pathology of intelligence reform; 2. Understanding intelligence reform; Part I. Adapting to the Early Cold War: 3. The founding of US Central Intelligence, 1941–1946; 4. US Intelligence and the early Cold War, 1947–1953; Part II. Adapting to the Collapse of the Cold War Consensus: 5. US Intelligence at the advent of détente, 1968–1974; 6. Politicizing US Intelligence, 1974–1978; Part III. Adapting to the End of the Cold War: 7. Intelligence for a New World Order, 1989–1992; 8. Scandal, study, and stasis, 1992–1996; Part IV. Adapting to the Post-9/11 Era: 9. Intelligence reform after 9/11, 2001–2004; 10. Intelligence in an age of terror, 2004–2015; 11. What have we learned?