Threat on the Horizon: An Inside Account of America's Search for Security After the Cold WarThe Aspin Brown Commission of 1995 1996, led by former U. S. Defense Secretaries Les Aspin and Harold Brown, was a landmark inquiry into the activities of America's secret agencies. The purpose of the commission was to help the Central Intelligence Agency and other organizations in the U. S. intelligence community adapt to the quite different world that had emerged after the end of the Cold War in 1991. In The Threat on the Horizon, eminent national