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.
Intelligence for Peace: The Role of Intelligence in Times of Peace
1st Edition
Edited
By Hesi Carmel
September 29, 1999
This collection of articles is by experts in the field who are convinced that intelligence has an important role to play, not only in times of war and confrontation, but also in times of conciliation and political processes....
Intelligence and the Cuban Missile Crisis
1st Edition
Edited
By James G. Blight, David A. Welch
October 31, 1998
This is the first study to examine throughly the role of US, Soviet and Cuban Intelligence in the nuclear crisis of 1962 - the closest the world has come to Armageddon....
Knowing Your Friends: Intelligence Inside Alliances and Coalitions from 1914 to the Cold War
1st Edition
Edited
By Martin S. Alexander
May 01, 1998
Little attention has been paid to the murky, ultra-business of gathering intelligence among and forming estimates about friendly powers, and friendly or allied military forces. How rarely have scholars troubled to discover when states entered into coalitions or alliances mainly and explicitly ...
Nothing Sacred: Nazi Espionage Against the Vatican, 1939-1945
1st Edition
By David Alvarez, Revd Robert A., SJ Graham
December 31, 1997
Nazi Germany considered the Catholic Church to be a serious threat to its domestic security and its international ambitions. In Germany, informants provided intelligence, but in Rome, German attempts to penetrate the Papacy were less successful - except for the codebreaking work....
Eternal Vigilance?: 50 years of the CIA
1st Edition
Edited
By Christopher Andrew, Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones
June 01, 1997
Eternal Vigilance? seeks to offer reinterpretations of some of the major established themes in CIA history such as its origins, foundations, its treatment of the Soviet threat, the Iranian revolution and the accountability of the agency. The book also opens new areas of research such as foreign ...
Intelligence Investigations: How Ultra Changed History
1st Edition
By Ralph Bennett
October 01, 1996
Military intelligence, grossly neglected during the interwar period, had by mid-1942 proved itself indispensable through information gathered from intercepted radio messages in the supposedly unbreakable German Enigma cipher. Ralph Bennett, who worked for four years at Bletchley Park as a senior ...
Intelligence Analysis and Assessment
1st Edition
Edited
By David Charters, Stuart Farson, Glenn P. Hastedt
June 30, 1996
These essays cover: assessment systems now in place in Britain, the USA, Germany and Australia; the bureaucratic dynamics of analysis and assessment; the changing ground in intelligence; and the impact of new technologies and modes of communication on intelligence gathering and analysis....
Intelligence and Imperial Defence: British Intelligence and the Defence of the Indian Empire 1904-1924
1st Edition
By Richard James Popplewell, Richard J. Popplewell
August 01, 1995
This is the first book to appear on British intelligence operations based in both India and London, which defended the Indian Empire against subversion during the first two decades of the twentieth century. It is concerned with the threat to the British Raj posed by the Indian revolutionary ...
Tet 1968: Understanding the Surprise
1st Edition
By Captain Ronnie E. Ford
July 01, 1995
This book brings to light many aspects of the Tet offensive of 1968, an event acknowledged as the turning-point of the Vietnam War. Using previously unseen Communist Vietnamese documents combined with sources of Western origin, the author provides a more accurate version of the events, their ...
The Australian Security Intelligence Organization: An Unofficial History
1st Edition
By Frank Cain
September 01, 1994
This book traces the history of Australia's highly secret Intelligence Security Organisation. Established in the early days of the Cold War, like most intelligence organisations working under covert conditions, it exceeded the vague powers entrusted to it. It has been the subject of two Royal ...
Intelligence, Defence and Diplomacy: British Policy in the Post-War World
1st Edition
By Richard J. Aldrich, Michael F. Hopkins
August 01, 1994
What was Britain's reaction to the death of Stalin? How has Britain reconciled a modern nuclear strategy with its traditional imperial defence commitments around the world? How has secret intelligence affected the Special Relationship' since 1945? Certain clear questions and perennial themes run ...
Espionage: Past, Present and Future?
1st Edition
Edited
By Wesley K. Wark
March 01, 1994
Highlights of the volume include pioneering essays on the methodology of intelligence studies by Michael Fry and Miles Hochstein, and the future perils of the surveillance state by James Der Derian. Two leading authorities on the history of Soviet/Russian intelligence, Christopher Andrew and Oleg ...