Exploring Intelligence Archives: Enquiries into the Secret State
by Hughes, R. Gerald; Jackson, Peter; Scott, LenPub. Date: 2008-03-11
Publisher(s): Taylor & Francis
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Summary
Scholars seeking to understand the role of secret intelligence in political affairs have sought to make use of relevant but constrained archives. This book presents documents in the public domain that illustrate issues in the realm of intelligence.
Table of Contents
| Introduction: Enquiries into the 'Secret State' | |
| 'Knowledge is never too dear': Exploring Intelligence Archives | |
| British SIGINT Decrypts on London Naval Conference, 1930 | |
| Overview: British Signals Intelligence and the London Naval Conference, 1930 | |
| 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 | |
| Commentary: The Japanese Navy and the London Naval Conference | |
| Conclusions | |
| French Military Intelligence Responds to the German Remilitarisation of the Rhineland, 1936 | |
| Overview: A look at French Intelligence Machinery in 1936 | |
| 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 | |
| The Creation of XX Committee, 1940 | |
| Overview: Deception and Double Cross | |
| Document 4 'Memorandum on the "Double Agent" System' | |
| Commentary: Deception and 'Double Cross' in the Second World War | |
| The Creation of a Vietnamese Intelligence Service, 1946-50 | |
| Overview: The Early Development of Vietnamese Intelligence Services (1945-50) | |
| Documents five, six and seven Three Documents on Early Vietnamese Intelligence and Security Services | |
| Commentary: Establishing a North Vietnamese Intelligence Service | |
| Commentary: The Development of Vietnamese Intelligence | |
| The Interrogation of Klaus Fuchs, 1950 | |
| Overview: Sir Michael Perrin's Interviews with Dr Klaus Fuchs | |
| 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 | |
| The CIA and Oleg Penkovsky, 1961-2 | |
| Overview: The Espionage of Oleg Penkovsky | |
| Documents ten to sixteen (excerpts) | |
| Commentary: Penkovsky: A Western Success Story? | |
| American and British Intelligence on South Vietnam, 1963 | |
| Overview: The US and Vietnam in 1963 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| A Conversation with Former DCI William E. Colby: Spymaster during the 'Year of the Intelligence Wars' | |
| Commentary: Loch Johnson's Oral History Interview with William Colby, and Johnson's Introduction to that Interview | |
| The Butler Report | |
| Overview: The Butler Report as an Historical Document | |
| Document twenty-one Butler Report (excerpt) 'Conclusions on Iraq' | |
| Commentary: The Butler Report | |
| Commentary: The Butler Report: A US Perspective | |
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