Learning from the secret past
Subtitle: cases in British intelligence history
By: Robert Dover and Michael S. Goodman, editors
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 313
ISBN-13: 9781589017702
Subjects: Intelligence service; Case studies; Military intelligence; Military relations; Foreign relations; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Learning from the secret past / David Omand; title: pt. 1. The organisation and oversight of intelligence; title: The post-war organization of intelligence : the January 1945 report to the Joint Intelligence Committee on "the Intelligence Machine" / Michael Herman; title: Document 1: The intelligence machine; title: "A formidable power to cause trouble for the government" : intelligence oversight and the creation of the UK Intelligence and Security Committee / Peter Gill; title: Document 2: Intelligence Services Bill; title: pt. 2. Political interference in intelligence; title: The Scott report : intelligence and the arms trade / Robert Dover; title: Document 3: Matrix Churchill Ltd. : export licence applications for Iraq, 25 September 1989; title: Political interference in the intelligence process : the case of Iraqi WMD / Mark Phythian; title: Document 4: The Butler report : Annex B: Intelligence assessment and presentation : from March to September 2002; title: pt. 3. Counterinsurgency and counterterrorism; title: Intelligence and counterinsurgency : the Malayan experience / Matthew Jones; title: Document 5: "The Special Branch Charter" : Directive No. 21, Director of Operations, Malaya, 24th April 1952; title: "A skeleton in our cupboard" : British interrogation procedures in Northern Ireland / Richard J. Aldrich; title: Document 6: Prisoner handling in interrogation centres in Northern Ireland : report by the intelligence co-ordinator; title: The value and limits of experience in the early years of the Northern Ireland troubles, 1969-1972 / Eunan O'Halpin; title: Document 7: Visit by Secretary JIC to Northern Ireland, 10-12 January 1972; title: pt. 4. Avoiding surprise; title: Suez and the threat to UK interests overseas   Gill Bennett; title: Document 8: The threat to United Kingdom interests overseas, 18 October 1956; title: Oleg Penkovsky, British intelligence, and the Cuban Missile Crisis / Len Scott; title: Document 9: Cuba : threat posed by Soviet missiles, 26 October 1962; title: Document 10: CIA memo: Meeting No. 1 (London) at Mount Royal Hotel, 20 April 1961; title: Avoiding surprise : the Nicoll report and intelligence Analysis / Michael S. Goodman; title: Document 11: The Joint Intelligence Committee and warning of aggression; title: Lessons learned : what the history of British intelligence can tell us about the future / Robert Dover and Michael S. Goodman.