Spying on the world : the declassified documents of the Joint Intelligence Committee /

These 20 case studies reveal the declassified papers of the JIC, shining a light on the workings of Whitehall's secret world and the vital, previously unknown, role played by intelligence in pivotal events across the 20th and 21st centuries. For more than half a century, the Joint Intelligence...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Goodman, Michael S., Aldrich, Richard J., Cormac, Rory
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2014.
Temas:
1900-1999
Intelligence service > History > 20th century.
Service des renseignements > Histoire > 20e siècle.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > International.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > International Relations > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Intelligence & Espionage.
Intelligence service
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: The rise of the Joint Intelligence Committee
  • Origins of the Joint Intelligence Committee
  • World War III and the role of intelligence in strategic planning
  • A post-war intelligence machinery
  • Origins of the Soviet threat
  • Sigint targeting
  • The Berlin blockade
  • Chinese intervention in the Korean War
  • Estimating Soviet capabilities
  • Counterinsurgency
  • The Suez crisis
  • The Cuban missile crisis
  • Vietnam
  • The Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, 1968
  • The rise of international terrorism in the Middle East
  • Northern Ireland: direct rule
  • The Falkland War
  • Changing requirement at the end of the Cold War
  • War in Iraq : weapons of mass destruction
  • War in Iraq : aftermath
  • The Joint Intelligence Committee and the National Security Council
  • The Syrian civil war
  • Through the looking glass : illusions of openness and the study of British intelligence
  • Appendix: Chairmen of the Joint Intelligence Committee
  • Document sources.

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