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Intelligence Studies in Britain and the US : Historiography since 1945 / Christopher R. Moran, Christopher J. Murphy.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (336 p.) : 10 B/W illustrationsContent type:
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  • 9780748646272
  • 9780748677566
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  • 327.124100722 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- THE EDITORS -- THE CONTRIBUTORS -- FIGURES -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- Introduction INTELLIGENCE STUDIES NOW AND THEN -- PART I AMERICAN INTELLIGENCE HISTORIOGRAPHY -- Chapter 1 CIA HISTORY AS A COLD WAR BATTLEGROUND: THE FORGOTTEN FIRST WAVE OF AGENCY NARRATIVES -- Chapter 2 THE CULTURE OF FUNDING CULTURE: THE CIA AND THE CONGRESS FOR CULTURAL FREEDOM -- Chapter 3 ‘REAL SUBSTANCE, NOT JUST SYMBOLISM’? THE CIA AND THE REPRESENTATION OF COVERT OPERATIONS IN THE FOREIGN RELATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES SERIES -- Chapter 4 BONUM EX MALO: THE VALUE OF LEGACY OF ASHES IN TEACHING CIA HISTORY -- Chapter 5 NARRATING COVERT ACTION: THE CIA, HISTORIOGRAPHY AND THE COLD WAR -- Chapter 6 FBI HISTORIOGRAPHY: FROM LEADER TO ORGANISATION -- Chapter 7 RECONCEIVING REALISM: INTELLIGENCE HISTORIANS AND THE FACT/FICTION DICHOTOMY -- Chapter 8 THE REALITY IS STRANGER THAN FICTION: ANGLO–AMERICAN INTELLIGENCE COOPERATION FROM WORLD WAR II THROUGH THE COLD WAR -- PART II BRITISH INTELLIGENCE HISTORIOGRAPHY -- Chapter 9 A PLAIN TALE OF PUNDITS, PLAYERS AND PROFESSIONALS: THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF THE GREAT GAME -- Chapter 10 NO CLOAKS, NO DAGGERS: THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF BRITISH MILITARY INTELLIGENCE -- Chapter 11 THE STUDY OF INTERROGATION: A FOCUS ON TORTURE, BUT WHAT ABOUT INTELLIGENCE? -- Chapter 12 WHITEHALL, INTELLIGENCE AND OFFICIAL HISTORY: EDITING SOE IN FRANCE -- Chapter 13 A TALE OF TORTURE? ALEXANDER SCOTLAND, THE LONDON CAGE AND POST-WAR BRITISH SECRECY -- Chapter 14 1968 – ‘A YEAR TO REMEMBER’ FOR THE STUDY OF BRITISH INTELLIGENCE? -- Chapter 15 THEIR TRADE IS TREACHERY: A RETROSPECTIVE -- Chapter 16 INTELLIGENCE AND ‘OFFICIAL HISTORY’ -- INDEX
Summary: The first introduction to writing about intelligence and intelligence servicesGBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748646272','ISBN:9780748677566','ISBN:9780748677580']);Secrecy has never stopped people from writing about intelligence. From memoirs and academic texts to conspiracy-laden exposés and spy novels, writing on intelligence abounds. Now, this new account uncovers intelligence historiography’s hugely important role in shaping popular understandings and the social memory of intelligence.In this first introduction to these official and unofficial histories, a range of leading contributors narrate and interpret the development of intelligence studies as a discipline. Each chapter showcases new archival material, looking at a particular book or series of books and considering issues of production, censorship, representation and reception.Key Features15 chapters from contributors including:Richard Aldrich, intelligence historianMatthew Jones, novelistNicholas Dujmovic, CIA Staff Historian Keith Jeffery, author of the first official history of MI6Jo Wippl, Former CIA operations officer Chapman Pincher, journalistExplores topics such as CIA historiography, MI5/MI6 historiography, the literature of eavesdropping and the importance of film in constructing proto or counter-histories of intelligenceOffers original insights into intelligence through an engagement with its past formulation and emerging patterns"
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- THE EDITORS -- THE CONTRIBUTORS -- FIGURES -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- Introduction INTELLIGENCE STUDIES NOW AND THEN -- PART I AMERICAN INTELLIGENCE HISTORIOGRAPHY -- Chapter 1 CIA HISTORY AS A COLD WAR BATTLEGROUND: THE FORGOTTEN FIRST WAVE OF AGENCY NARRATIVES -- Chapter 2 THE CULTURE OF FUNDING CULTURE: THE CIA AND THE CONGRESS FOR CULTURAL FREEDOM -- Chapter 3 ‘REAL SUBSTANCE, NOT JUST SYMBOLISM’? THE CIA AND THE REPRESENTATION OF COVERT OPERATIONS IN THE FOREIGN RELATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES SERIES -- Chapter 4 BONUM EX MALO: THE VALUE OF LEGACY OF ASHES IN TEACHING CIA HISTORY -- Chapter 5 NARRATING COVERT ACTION: THE CIA, HISTORIOGRAPHY AND THE COLD WAR -- Chapter 6 FBI HISTORIOGRAPHY: FROM LEADER TO ORGANISATION -- Chapter 7 RECONCEIVING REALISM: INTELLIGENCE HISTORIANS AND THE FACT/FICTION DICHOTOMY -- Chapter 8 THE REALITY IS STRANGER THAN FICTION: ANGLO–AMERICAN INTELLIGENCE COOPERATION FROM WORLD WAR II THROUGH THE COLD WAR -- PART II BRITISH INTELLIGENCE HISTORIOGRAPHY -- Chapter 9 A PLAIN TALE OF PUNDITS, PLAYERS AND PROFESSIONALS: THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF THE GREAT GAME -- Chapter 10 NO CLOAKS, NO DAGGERS: THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF BRITISH MILITARY INTELLIGENCE -- Chapter 11 THE STUDY OF INTERROGATION: A FOCUS ON TORTURE, BUT WHAT ABOUT INTELLIGENCE? -- Chapter 12 WHITEHALL, INTELLIGENCE AND OFFICIAL HISTORY: EDITING SOE IN FRANCE -- Chapter 13 A TALE OF TORTURE? ALEXANDER SCOTLAND, THE LONDON CAGE AND POST-WAR BRITISH SECRECY -- Chapter 14 1968 – ‘A YEAR TO REMEMBER’ FOR THE STUDY OF BRITISH INTELLIGENCE? -- Chapter 15 THEIR TRADE IS TREACHERY: A RETROSPECTIVE -- Chapter 16 INTELLIGENCE AND ‘OFFICIAL HISTORY’ -- INDEX

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The first introduction to writing about intelligence and intelligence servicesGBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748646272','ISBN:9780748677566','ISBN:9780748677580']);Secrecy has never stopped people from writing about intelligence. From memoirs and academic texts to conspiracy-laden exposés and spy novels, writing on intelligence abounds. Now, this new account uncovers intelligence historiography’s hugely important role in shaping popular understandings and the social memory of intelligence.In this first introduction to these official and unofficial histories, a range of leading contributors narrate and interpret the development of intelligence studies as a discipline. Each chapter showcases new archival material, looking at a particular book or series of books and considering issues of production, censorship, representation and reception.Key Features15 chapters from contributors including:Richard Aldrich, intelligence historianMatthew Jones, novelistNicholas Dujmovic, CIA Staff Historian Keith Jeffery, author of the first official history of MI6Jo Wippl, Former CIA operations officer Chapman Pincher, journalistExplores topics such as CIA historiography, MI5/MI6 historiography, the literature of eavesdropping and the importance of film in constructing proto or counter-histories of intelligenceOffers original insights into intelligence through an engagement with its past formulation and emerging patterns"

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In English.

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