Intelligence Power in Practice
1st Edition
Published on 30. April 2022
432 pages
978-1-4744-9957-6 (ISBN)
Description
Showcases Michael Herman's critical reflections from his thirty-five years of intelligence experience to examine the past and present of British intelligence.
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Michael Herman | David Schaefer
Intelligence Power in Practice
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03/2022
Edinburgh University Press
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Content
- Intro
- Foreword by Lord Butler
- Preface
- Part 1 Secrecy and Liberal Society
- 1. Profiles in Intelligence: An Interview with Michael Herman
- 2. The Rush to Transparency: Releasing Wartime Codebreaking Secrets
- 3. GCHQ De-unionisation
- 4. Intelligence and Ethical Foreign Policy
- Part 2 The Cold War
- 5. Intelligence as Threats and Reassurance
- 6. What Difference Did It Make?
- 7. The Intelligence War: Reflections on Sigint
- 8. National Requirements
- 9. Manual Morse and the Intelligence Gold Standard
- 10. Teufelsberg
- Part 3 Organisation and Reform
- 11. 1945 Organisation
- 12. Post-Cold War Issues and Opportunities
- 13. Evidence to Butler
- 14. Joint Intelligence and Butler
- 15. Butler Reviewed
- Part 4 Personalities in British Intelligence
- 16. Recruitment in 1945 and 'Peculiar Personal Characteristics'
- 17. Up from the Country: Cabinet Office Impressions 1972-5
- 18. The Joint Intelligence Committee 1972-5
- 19. GCHQ Directors
- 20. Harry Burke and Able Archer
- 21. A Special London Contribution
- Index
