Exploring intelligence archives : enquiries into the secret state / edited by R. Gerald Hughes, Peter Jackson and Len Scott.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hughes, R. Gerald.

Jackson, P. J. (Peter J.), 1964-

Scott, L. V. (Leonard Victor), 1957-

Series:

Studies in intelligence series 1368-9916

Studies in intelligence series, 1368-9916

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intelligence service.

Intelligence service--Study and teaching.

Military intelligence.

Military intelligence--Study and teaching.

Physical Description:

xvi, 332 pages : facsimiles ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2008.

Summary:

This edited volume brings together many of the world's leading scholars of intelligence with a number of former senior practitioners to facilitate a wide-ranging dialogue on the central challenges confronting students of intelligence.

The book presents a series of documents, nearly all of which are published here for the first time, accompanied by both overview and commentary sections. The objectives of this collection are twofold. First, it seeks to build on existing scholarship on intelligence in deepening our understanding of its impact on a series of key events in the international history of the past century. Further, it 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. This book will be of great interest to students of intelligence, strategic and security studies, foreign policy and international history.

Contents:

Introduction: enquiries into the 'secret state' / Peter Jackson 1

1 'Knowledge is never too dear': exploring intelligence archives / R. Gerald Hughes, Len Scott 13

2 British SIGINT decrypts on the London Naval Conference, 1930 41

Overview: British signals intelligence and the London Naval Conference, 1930 / Andrew Webster 41

Commentary: Communications intelligence and conference diplomacy, London, 1930 / John Ferris 45

Commentary: The Japanese navy and the London Naval Conference / Peter Mauch 49

3 French military intelligence responds to the German remilitarisation of the Rhineland, 1936 59

Overview: A look at French intelligence machinery in 1936 / Peter Jackson 59

Commentary: The military consequences for France of the end of Locarno / Martin S. Alexander 80

4 The creation of the XX Committee, 1940 93

Overview: Deception and double cross / Len Scott 93

Commentary: Deception and 'double cross' in the Second World War / John Ferris 98

5 The creation of a Vietnamese intelligence service, 1945-50 103

Overview: The early development of Vietnamese intelligence services, 1945-50 / Christopher E. Goscha 103

Commentary: Establishing a North Vietnamese intelligence service / David Marr 116

Commentary: The development of Vietnamese intelligence / Merle Pribbenow 119

6 The interrogation of Klaus Fuchs, 1950 123

Overview: Sir Michael Perrin's interviews with Dr Klaus Fuchs / Michael Goodman 123

Commentary: An analysis of Sir Michael Perrin's interviews with Klaus Fuchs: comparative Soviet perspectives / David Holloway 133

7 The CIA and Oleg Penkovsky, 1961-63 141

Overview: The espionage of Oleg Penkovsky / Charles Cogan 141

Commentary: Penkovsky: a Western success story? / Len Scott 143

8 American and British intelligence on South Vietnam, 1963 173

Overview: The US and Vietnam in 1963 / Andrew Priest 173

Commentary: 'In the final analysis, it is their war': Britain, the United States and South Vietnam in 1963 / R. Gerald Hughes 183

9 British intelligence on the Arab-Israeli military balance, 1965 213

Overview: Between Suez and the Six Day War: Western intelligence assessments and the Arab-Israeli conflict, 1957-67 / James R. Vaughan 213

Commentary: Assessing the assessors: JIC assessment and the test of time / Yigal Sheffy 216

10 A KGB view of CIA and other Western espionage against the Soviet Bloc, 1983 243

Overview: Western spying on the Soviet Union's military-industrial complex during the Second Cold War / Paul Maddrell 243

Commentary: Inside the Soviet Bloc in 1983 / Matthias Uhl 250

11 A conversation with former DCI William E. Colby: spymaster during the 'Year of the Intelligence Wars' / Loch K. Johnson 255

Commentary: Loch Johnson's oral history interview with William Colby, and Johnson's introduction to that interview / Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones 270

12 The Butler Report, 2004 277

Overview: The Butler Report as an historical document / Peter Jackson 277

Commentary: The Butler Report / Robert Jervis 309

Commentary: The Butler Report: a US perspective / Loch K. Johnson 313.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415349987

0415349982

9780415349727

0415349729

9780203023129

0203023129

OCLC:

165083305