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

ISBN-13: 9780367706395 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 298 str.

Rüdiger Bergien; Debora Gerstenberger; Constantin Goschler

Opis

This volume examines intelligence services since 1945 in their role as knowledge producers.

Spis treści

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