Researchers in the rapidly growing field of intelligence studies face unique and difficult challenges ranging from finding and accessing data on secret activities to sorting through the politics of intelligence successes and failures to making sense of complex socioorganizational or psychological phenomena. The contributing authors to Researching National Security Intelligence survey the state of the field and demonstrate how incorporating multiple disciplines helps to generate highquality policyrelevant research. Following this approach the volume provides a conceptual empirical and methodological toolkit for scholars and students informed by many disciplines history political science public administration psychology communications and journalism. This collection of essays written by an international group of scholars and practitioners propels intelligence studies forward by demonstrating its growing depth by suggesting new pathways to the creation of knowledge and by identifying how scholarship can enhance practice and accountability.