Intelligence and Espionage: Secrets and Spie,Daniel Lomas, Christopher John Murphy

-About this book

Intelligence and Espionage: Secrets and Spies provides a global introduction to the role of intelligence – a key, but sometimes controversial, aspect of ensuring national security. Separating fact from fiction, the book draws on past examples to explore the use and misuse of intelligence, examine why failures take place and address important ethical issues over its use.
Divided into two parts, the book adopts a thematic approach to the topic, guiding the reader through the collection and analysis of information and its use by policymakers, before looking at intelligence sharing. Lomas and Murphy also explore the important associated activities of counterintelligence and the use of covert action, to influence foreign countries and individuals. Topics covered include human and signals intelligence, the Cuban Missile Crisis, intelligence and Stalin, Trump and the US intelligence community, and the Soviet Bloc.

This analysis is supplemented by a comprehensive documents section, containing newly released documents, including material from Edward Snowden’s leaks of classified material.
Supported by images, a comprehensive chronology, glossary, and ‘who’s who’ of key figures, Intelligence and Espionage is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in the role of intelligence in policymaking, international relations and diplomacy, warfighting and politics to the present day.

-Contents
List of figures
Chronology
Who’s who
PART I:Analysis
Introduction
What is ‘intelligence’? Theoretical approaches 3
Global intelligence: a brief history 7
1 Gathering intelligence: spies and signals
1.1 Human intelligence (HUMINT) 15
1.2 Signals intelligence (SIGINT) 19
1.3 Imagery intelligence (IMINT) 20
1.4 Open source intelligence (OSINT) 24
1.5 INTs in comparative perspective 25
1.6 Intelligence collection: ethical considerations 29
2 Intelligence analysis
2.1 Signals and noise: Pearl Harbor 35
2.2 A flawed concept: the Yom Kippur War 37
2.3 Averting Armageddon: the Cuban Missile Crisis 39
3 Intelligence and policy
3.1 Ideology: Hitler and Stalin 46
3.2 Conspiracy? The Wilson Plot 49
3.3 Trusting intelligence? The Iraq War 51
3.4 A stormy relationship? Trump and the US intelligence community 53

4 Intelligence liaison
4.1 Best friends: the special relationship 62
4.2 Comrades: the Soviet Bloc 64
4.3 Complicity: extraordinary rendition 66
5 Catching spies: counterintelligence
5.1 Agents in place 70
5.2 Defectors 74
5.3 Complications 76
5.4 Paranoid tendencies 78
6 The ‘hidden hand’: covert action
6.1 Types of covert action 82
6.2 The pros and cons of covert action 90
6.3 Covert action: ethical considerations 92
Assessment
PART II
Documents

-Caractéristiques

Date de parution:27 février 2019

Éditeur : Routledge

Langue : Anglais

NB.de pages : 176 pages

ISBN-10 : 1138303127

ISBN-13 : 978-1138303126

Poids de l’article : 408 g

Dimensions : 15.6 x 1.12 x 23.39 cm