Exploring Intelligence Archives : Enquiries into the Secret State

ISBN-13: 9780415349987 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 332 str.

L. V. Scott; Peter Jackson; R. Gerald Hughes

Opis

If deception, deceit and manipulation are integral to the business of intelligence gathering - what are the implications for the historical record? Are intelligence archives themselves officially constructed to allow only manipulated histories?

This new book examines these questions and explores how various kinds of people involved in studying and/or practicing intelligence, view texts and issues from different perspectives. It shows how scholars have long sought to make use of relevant archives, but constraints on access to such sources have been considerable. With the end of the Cold War and other changes in official attitudes, more intelligence documents are now becoming available.

This is a fascinating new examination that shows how no document speaks entirely for itself, though some may be more eloquent or assertive than others. The interpretation of the archival record (as indeed the non-archival record) is at the heart of scholarship, and challenges in interpreting texts are generic problems for any researcher.

Spis treści

Introduction: Enquiries into the ‘Secret State’  1. ‘Knowledge is never too dear’: Exploring Intelligence Archives R. Gerald Hughes and Len Scott  2. British SIGINT Decrypts on London Naval Conference, 1930.  Overview: British Signals Intelligence and the London Naval Conference, 1930 Andrew Webster.  Document one: ‘Naval Conference: Japanese Admiralty Views on American Proposals.’  Document two: ‘Naval Conference: Japanese Summary of the Situation and Request for Instructions.’  Commentary: Communications Intelligence and Conference Diplomacy: London, 1930 John Ferris.  Commentary: The Japanese Navy and the London Naval Conference Peter Mauch.  Conclusions Andrew Webster  3. French Military Intelligence Responds to the German Remilitarisation of the Rhineland, 1936.  Overview: A look at French Intelligence Machinery in 1936 Peter Jackson.  Document three: ‘Note Concerning the Consequences that Follow, from a Military Point of View, from Germany’s Renunciation of the Locarno Treaty.’  Commentary: The Military Consequences for France of the End of Locarno Martin Alexander  4. The Creation of XX Committee, 1940.  Overview: Deception and Double Cross Len Scott.  Document 4: ‘Memorandum on the "Double Agent" System.’  Commentary: Deception and ‘Double Cross’ in the Second World War John Ferris  5. The Creation of a Vietnamese Intelligence Service, 1946-50.  Overview: The Early Development of Vietnamese Intelligence Services (1945-50) Christopher Goscha.  Documents five, six and seven: Three Documents on Early Vietnamese Intelligence and Security Services.  Commentary: Establishing a North Vietnamese Intelligence Service David Marr.  Commentary: The Development of Vietnamese Intelligence Merle Pribbenow  6. The Interrogation of Klaus Fuchs, 1950.  Overview: Sir Michael Perrin’s Interviews with Dr Klaus Fuchs Michael Goodman.  Document eight (pt. 1): ‘Record of Interview with Dr. K. Fuchs on 30th January 1950.’  Document nine (pt. 2): ‘Record of Interview with Dr. K. Fuchs on 22nd March 1950.’  Commentary: An Analysis of Sir Michael Perrin’s Interviews with Klaus Fuchs: Comparative Soviet Perspectives David Holloway  7. The CIA and Oleg Penkovsky, 1961-2.  Overview: The Espionage of Oleg Penkovsky Charles Cogan.  Documents ten to sixteen (excerpts): CIA Files on Penkovsky.  Commentary: Penkovsky: A Western Success Story? Len Scott  8. American and British Intelligence on South Vietnam, 1963.  Overview: The US and Vietnam in 1963 Andrew Priest.  Document seventeen: ‘The Situation in South Vietnam’ (US).  Document eighteen: ‘The Situation in South Vietnam’ (UK).  Commentary: ‘In the Final Analysis, it is their War’: The United States and South Vietnam in 1963 R. Gerald Hughes  9. British Intelligence on the Arab-Israeli Military Balance, 1965.  Overview: Between Suez and the Six Day War: Western Intelligence Assessments and the Arab-Israel Conflict, 1957-1967 James Vaughan.  Document nineteen: ‘The Military Balance between Israel and the Arab World up to the End of 1966.’  Commentary: Assessing the Assessors: JIC Assessment and the Test of Time Yigal Sheffy  10. A KGB View of CIA Activity against the Soviet Bloc, 1983.  Overview: Western Spying on the Soviet Union’s Military-Industrial Complex during the Second Cold War Paul Maddrell.  Document twenty: ‘Multilateral Conference of the Organs Responsible for the Security of the Economy [illegible word or number].’  Commentary: Inside the Soviet Bloc in 1983 Matthias Uhl  11. A Conversation with Former DCI William E. Colby: Spymaster during the ‘Year of the Intelligence Wars’  Loch K. Johnson.  Commentary: Loch Johnson’s Oral History Interview with William Colby, and Johnson’s Introduction to that Interview Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones  12. The Butler Report.  Overview: The Butler Report as an Historical Document Peter Jackson.  Document twenty-one: Butler Report (excerpt) ‘Conclusions on Iraq.’  Commentary: The Butler Report Robert Jervis.  Commentary: The Butler Report: A US Perspective Loch K. Johnson

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Peter Jackson, R. Gerald Hughes, Len Scott