SUMARIO: Multiple definitions of intelligence - Intelligence as a field of learning - The role of intelligence prosnostication - Basic methodological currents in research into intelligence matters. The american and british schools - Michael Warner's typology. Inside and outside the school - Intelligence cycle - Postmodern and other newer approaches to the intelligence studies - Michael Herman's attempt at an interpretation - In search of a soviet comparative perspective. An attempt at reconstructing the evolution of the soviet intelligence doctrine in the 1960s and 1970s - The accounts of Oleg Kalugin and Nicolai Leonov - The defeat of the soviet intelligence system in the 1950s and its consequences - Intelligence cycle in organisations of the soviet type. The polish example - Conclusion