Studies in Intelligence
About the Book Series
The growing interest in intelligence activities and the opening of hitherto closed archives since the end of the Cold War has stimulated this series of scholarly monographs, wartime memoirs and edited collections. With contributions from leading academics and prominent members of the intelligence community, this series has quickly become the leading forum for the academic study of intelligence.
Propaganda and Intelligence in the Cold War: The NATO information service
1st Edition
By Linda Risso
July 16, 2015
This book offers the first account of the foundation, organisation and activities of the NATO Information Service (NATIS) during the Cold War. During the Cold War, NATIS was pivotal in bringing national delegations together to discuss their security, information and intelligence concerns and, when...
British Military Intelligence in the Crimean War, 1854-1856
1st Edition
By Stephen M. Harris
March 31, 2015
This is a study of the British military intelligence operations during the Crimean War. It details the beginnings of the intelligence operations as a result of the British Commander, Lord Raglan's, need for information on the enemy, and traces the subsequent development of the system....
Understanding the Intelligence Cycle
1st Edition
Edited
By Mark Phythian
November 10, 2014
This book critically analyses the concept of the intelligence cycle, highlighting the nature and extent of its limitations and proposing alternative ways of conceptualising the intelligence process. The concept of the intelligence cycle has been central to the study of intelligence. As ...
The CIA, the British Left and the Cold War: Calling the Tune?
1st Edition
By Hugh Wilford
September 11, 2014
Shortly after it was founded in 1947, the CIA launched a secret effort to win the Cold War allegiance of the British left. Hugh Wilford traces the story of this campaign from its origins in Washington DC to its impact on Labour Party politicians, trade unionists, and Bloomsbury intellectuals...
American Intelligence in War-time London: The Story of the OSS
1st Edition
By Nelson MacPherson
July 17, 2014
Based on OSS records only recently released to US National Archives, and on evidence from British archival sources, this is a thoroughly researched study of the Office of Strategic Services in London. The OSS was a critical liaison and operational outpost for American intelligence during World War...
Espionage and the Roots of the Cold War: The Conspiratorial Heritage
1st Edition
By David McKnight
July 17, 2014
From the 1930s to the 1950s a large number of left-wing men and women in the USA, Britain, Europe, Australia and Canada were recruited to the Soviet intelligence services. They were amateurs and the reason for their success is intriguing. Using Soviet archives, this work explores these successes....
Swedish Signal Intelligence 1900-1945
1st Edition
By Bengt Beckman, C.G. McKay
May 30, 2014
A history of Swedish interception of radio and telegraph messages during World Wars I and II providing a valuable background to Swedish military operations at this time. This should prove a valuable work for anyone interested in the intelligence systems at work during wartime....
Stasi: Shield and Sword of the Party
1st Edition
By John Christian Schmeidel
April 28, 2014
This book is a fascinating new examination of one of the most feared and efficient secret services the world has ever known, the Stasi. The East German Stasi was a jewel among the communist secret services, the most trusted by its Russian mother organization the KGB, and even more efficient. ...
Codebreaker in the Far East
1st Edition
By Alan Stripp
December 14, 2012
This is the first book to describe British wartime success in breaking Japanese codes of dazzling variety and great complexity which contributed to the victory in Burma three months before Hiroshima. Written for the general reader, this first-hand account describes the difficulty of decoding one of...
Improving Intelligence Analysis: Bridging the Gap between Scholarship and Practice
1st Edition
By Stephen Marrin
December 14, 2012
This book on intelligence analysis written by intelligence expert Dr. Stephen Marrin argues that scholarship can play a valuable role in improving intelligence analysis. Improving intelligence analysis requires bridging the gap between scholarship and practice. Compared to the more ...
The Politics and Strategy of Clandestine War: Special Operations Executive, 1940-1946
1st Edition
Edited
By Neville Wylie
November 14, 2012
This fascinating new collection of essays on Britain’s Special Operations Executive (SOE) explores the ‘non-military’ aspects of British special operations in the Second World War. It details how SOE was established in the summer of 1940 to ‘set Europe ablaze’, as Churchill memorably put it. This ...
Mussolini's Propaganda Abroad: Subversion in the Mediterranean and the Middle East, 1935-1940
1st Edition
By Manuela Williams
November 01, 2012
This is the first major study in English of Fascist Italy’s overseas propaganda. Using rare Italian and French captured documents, this is also the first investigation into the relationship between Mussolini’s regime and Arab nationalist movements This new account covers propaganda and subversive ...