1st Edition

Intelligence Agencies, Technology and Knowledge Production Data Processing and Information Transfer in Secret Services during the Cold War

308 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

308 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

308 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

The Knowledge of Intelligence Agencies in the Cold War World: An Introduction

Rüdiger Bergien, Debora Gerstenberger, and Constantin Goschler

1. Compromised Cooperation: Researchers on Eastern Europe in the Service of Intelligence in West Germany after 1945

Thomas Wolf

2. Dogma versus Progress: KGB’s Scientific and Technological Surveillance (In-) Capacities from the 1960s to the 1980s

Evgenia Lezina

3. Mission Impossible: The Difficult Consolidation of Strategic Intelligence in the United States During the Cold War

Andreas Lutsch

4. American Security Databases and the Production of Space, 1967–1974: Enhancing or Obscuring Patterns?

Jens Wegener

5. Knowledge Transfer and Technopolitics: The CIA, the West German Intelligence Service, and the Digitization of Information Processing in the 1960s

Rüdiger Bergien

6. Information Technology is Power: The Intelligence Service’s Grab for the Digital Computing Sector in Brazil

Marcelo Vianna

7. The Computer as Document Shredder: Video Terminals and the Dawn of a New Era of Knowledge Production in Brazil’s Serviço Nacional de Informações (SNI)

Debora Gerstenberger

8. Turkish Intelligence, Surveillance and the Secrets of the Cold War: Blocked Modernization?

Egemen Bezci

9. Solid Modernity: Data Storage and Information Circuits in the Communist Security Police in Poland

Franciszek Dabrowski

10. Perceptions of Digital Computers at the German Domestic Intelligence Service: Eliminating the Human Factor?

Christopher Kirchberg

11. Global Intelligence Academies: Information Schools during the Civil-Military Dictatorship in Brazil

Samantha Viz Quadrat

12. Intelligence Public Relations: The Annual Reports on the Protection of the Constitution in West Germany

Marcel Schmeer

Conclusion

Rüdiger Bergien, Debora Gerstenberger, and Constantin Goschler

Biography

Rüdiger Bergien is a Professor of Intelligence History at the Federal University for Applied Administrative Sciences, Germany.

Debora Gerstenberger is Assistant Professor for Latin American History at the Institute for Latin American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.

Constantin Goschler is Professor for Contemporary History at the Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany, and is currently directing a research group on 'Security, Democracy and Transparency'.