1st Edition
Intelligence and Espionage: Secrets and Spies
Chronology
Who’s who
PART ONE: ANALYSIS
Introduction What is ‘intelligence’? Theoretical approaches
Global intelligence: a brief history
Chapter 1 Gathering intelligence: spies and signals
Chapter 2 Intelligence analysis
Chapter 3 Intelligence and policy
Chapter 4 Intelligence liaison
Chapter 5 Catching spies: counterintelligence
Chapter 6 The ‘hidden hand’: covert action
Assessment
PART TWO: DOCUMENTS
Biography
Dr Daniel W.B. Lomas, Lecturer in International History at the University of Salford, UK, specialises in the post-1945 British intelligence community. His first book, Intelligence, Security and the Attlee Governments, 1945–51, was published in December 2016. He has written for History Today, BBC History Magazine and the History of Government Blog.
Dr Christopher J. Murphy is Lecturer in Intelligence Studies at the University of Salford, UK, researching the history of British intelligence in the Twentieth Century. Dr Murphy has published extensively on the history of the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) and intelligence historiography.
'What is intelligence, and how does it relate to the image of the spy in popular culture? How does the process of gathering, analyzing, and applying it actually work? And why is the word "intelligence" so often coupled with the word "failure"? Combining incisive conceptual analysis with wide-ranging historical case studies, Intelligence and Espionage: Secrets and Spies offers a timely introduction to a relatively new and rapidly burgeoning field of contemporary scholarship.'
Bruce Thompson, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
