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Intelligence, Crises and Security Prospects and Retrospects

Edited By Len Scott, R. Gerald Hughes Copyright 2008
284 Pages
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This collection of essays by leading experts seeks to explore what lessons for the exploitation and management of secret intelligence might be drawn from a variety of case studies ranging from the 1920s to the ‘War on Terror’. Long regarded as the ‘missing dimension’ of international history and politics, public and academic interest in the role of secret intelligence has continued to grow in... Read more

Learning from Intelligence History: Lessons for the 21st Century.  Diplomatic Signalling and Intelligence during Crises: The Russo-Turkish War (1877-78), the Chanak Crisis (1922) and the Munich Crisis (1938).  A Major Operation: The Clandestine Networks of the CIA in Western Europe.  Britain and the Iraqi WMD Intelligence Failure.  From Covert Diplomacy to Covert Action: Britain and the Yemen Civil War,1962-65.  The Bush Administration and Iraq: The Mother of Intelligence Failures.  The Western Secret Services, the East German Ministry of State Security and the Building of the Berlin Wall.   Intelligence since Iraq: Overload in an Open-Source World.  Lessons from the Shadows: The Once and Future History of Secret Intelligence?  Response to Strategic Weakness: Egyptian Deception in the Yom Kippur War.  Crisis Management in Colonial States: Intelligence and Counter-Insurgency in Morocco and Syria after the First World War.  Counter-Terrorism in Holland: Radical Fundamentalists and the Present Threat.  Intelligence and Neutrality: The Case of Switzerland.  Conclusion

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Len Scott, R. Gerald Hughes