Bücher der Reihe Studies in Intelligence

This volume examines intelligence services since 1945 in their role as knowledge producers.Intelligence agencies are producers and providers of arcane information. However, little is known about the social, cultural and material dimensions of their knowledge production, processing and distribution. This volume starts from the assumption that during the Cold War, these core activities of information services underwent decisive changes, of which scientization and computerisation are essential. With a focus on the emerging alliances between intelligence agencies, science and (computer) technology, the chapters empirically explore these transformations and are characterised by innovative combinations of intelligence history with theoretical considerations from the history of science and technology and the history of knowledge.At the same time, the book challenges the bipolarity of Cold War history in general and of intelligence history in particular in favour of comparative and transnational perspectives. The focus is not only the Soviet Union and the United States, but also Poland, Turkey, the two German states and Brazil. This approach reveals surprising commonalities across systems: time and again, the expansion and use of intelligence knowledge came up against the limits that resulted from intelligence culture itself. The book enriches our global understanding of knowledge of the state and contributes to a historical framework for the past decade of debates about the societal consequences of intelligence data processing.This book will be of much interest to students of intelligence studies, science and technology studies, security studies and International Relations.

Documents the wartime exploits of Owen Reed, a British army officer who was recruited into the Secret Intelligence Service in 1943 and who subsequently served with Tito's partisans in German-occupied Yugoslavia.

This book examines the structural development of the Secret Intelligence Service from its inception to the end of the Cold War.

New information obtained from the declassification of Ultra intercepts and other Second World War documents as well as from recent scholarly research has credited Allied deception operations with an even more important contribution to winning the war than was previously supposed. Yet deception is only one factor in the achievement of victory; it cannot guarantee success. It must be fully understood and exploited by the highest levels of command. Most histories of deception operations during the Second World War have focused on those that were successful. Instances in which deception operations failed to achieve their objectives are discussed by John Campbell, who describes an early attempt to convince the Germans that the Allies intended to invade at Pas de Calais in the summer of 1943, and by Katherine Herbig, who gives the first detailed description of US deception operations in the Pacific. Klaus-Jurgen Muller questions the actual effectiveness of deception operations against the Germans. He argues that many successes attributed to the Allies' use of deception were in fact achieved by independent considerations on the German side. Professor Muller builds a particularly strong case in challenging the success of Operation Fortitude North, in which the Allies tried to divert German troops to Norway before invading Normandy. Although very little is known of Soviet deception operations on the Eastern Front, it must be remembered that they were conducted on a much larger scale than those of either the British in Europe or the Americans in the Pacific. Colonel David Glantz's account of Soviet deception and covert activities offers a version of the historiography of the war between the USSRand Germany which may explain some of the monumental German failures. Tom Cubbage not only contributes a synthesis of the primary and secondary sources available on the deception operations preceding Overlord, but also reviews the so-called Hesketh Report - Fortitude: A History of Strategic Deception in North Western Europe April 1943 to May 1945, Colonel Roger Hesketh's official report on Allied deception operations against the Germans in north-west Europe which was declassified in 1976, yet remains unpublished. It indicates that Professor Muller's suspicions that the Allies over-estimated the impact of Fortitude are unfounded. Edited and with a comprehensive introduction by Michael Handel, these important and original studies put the entire deception effort during the Second World War into a more balanced and accurate perspective.

This volume examines the ethical issues generated by recent developments in intelligence collection and offers a.comprehenisve analysis of the key legal, moral and social questions thereby raised.

The vital ingredient in the formulation and execution of a successful foreign policy is intelligence. Of the seven contributors, five have direct experience of working with or in intelligence, and all have written extensively on the subject.

The essays in this volume offer reinterpretations of some of the major established themes in CIA history - such as its origins, its foundations, its treatment of the Soviet threat, the Iranian revolution and the accountability of the agency.

This work illustrates some of the steps by which information from intercepted messages in the supposedly unbreakable German Enigma cipher was developed, while providing a candid glimpse of the workings of British intelligence.

Highlights of the volume include pioneering essays on the methodology of intelligence studies by Michael Fry and Miles Hochstein, and the future perils of the surveillance state by James Der Derian.

This work considers, for the first time, the intelligence relationship between three important North Atlantic powers in the Twenty-first century, from WWII to post-Cold War.

Presenting a radical approach to the study of propaganda and American foreign policy, this book examines the construction, activities, and impact of the network of US state and private groups in the Cold War. It is of interest to students of Intelligence Studies, Cold War History, and IR/security studies in general.

A radical new approach to the study of propaganda and foreign policy, which moves beyond state-dominated, 'top-down' studies by exploring the engagement and mobilization of whole societies and cultures.

This edited volume addresses the main lessons and legacies of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.

Intelligence and the Cuban Missile Crisis examines for the first time the role and performance of all three intelligence communities centrally involved in this seminal event: American, Soviet and Cuban.

This book explores the intriguing success of left-wing amateur intelligence workers who were recruited to the Soviet intelligence services from the United States, Britain, Europe, Australia and Canada from the 1930's to the 1950's.

This book provides a cross-section of case studies that highlight the connections between overt/covert activities and cultural/political agendas during the early Cold War.

First Published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The second edition of this account of aspects of World War II includes the revelation of what is called "the Ultra Secret"; the fact that the British were able to decipher German radio messages on the highest Command links.

Drawing on extensive foreign material and making use of the social science concepts of information, power and law, this book develops a framework for the comparative analysis of MI5 and police special branches.

These essays investigate the logic, conduct and nature of war on the highest political and strategic levels,as they look at the impact of technology on warfare, the political nature of war and the limits of rational analysis in studying war.

This volume argues for intelligence professionalism as a contribution to international security and for its encouragement as a world standard.

This book examines critically the development of intelligence studies and assesses its contribution to the study of international relations. It draws upon the viewpoints of leading academics, journalists and former practitioners to explore the way

These essays cover: assessment systems now in place in Britain, the USA, Germany and Australia; the bureaucratic dynamics of analysis; the changes in intelligence; and the impact of new technologies on intelligence.

A collection of documents, this book aims to explore the different ways in which intelligence can be studied by bringing together both scholarly and practical expertise to examine a range of primary material relevant to the history of intelligence since the early twentieth century.

Providing an assessment of the Special Operations Executive (SOE), this work examines the organization from a range of key angles.

This work examines the ways in which the relationship between the military community and the intelligence profession has improved and argues that co-operation between the intelligence adviser and the military decision maker is vital.

This volume studies the manner in which political leaders accept and apply intelligence.

Examines the use and exploitation of intelligence in formulating Britain's strategy for the Arab Revolt during the First World War. This title presents an examination of the achievements of T E Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) as an intelligence officer and guerrilla leader.

This book is a collection of essays on Britain's Special Operations Executive (SOE), exploring the 'non-military' aspects of British 'special operations' over the course of the Second World War.