Exploring Intelligence Archives: Enquiries into the Secret State

by Hughes, R. Gerald; Jackson, Peter; Scott, Len

• ISBN13: 9780203023129
• ISBN10: 0203023129
• Copyright: 2008-03-11
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Summary

Scholars seeking to understand the role of secret intelligence in political affairs have sought to make use of relevant but constrained archives. This book presents documents in the public domain that illustrate issues in the realm of intelligence.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Enquiries into the 'Secret State'

'Knowledge is never too dear': Exploring Intelligence Archives

British SIGINT Decrypts on London Naval Conference, 1930

Overview: British Signals Intelligence and the London Naval Conference, 1930

Document one 'Naval Conference: Japanese Admiralty Views on American Proposals'

Document two 'Naval Conference: Japanese Summary of the Situation and Request for Instructions'

Commentary: Communications Intelligence and Conference Diplomacy: London, 1930

Commentary: The Japanese Navy and the London Naval Conference

Conclusions

French Military Intelligence Responds to the German Remilitarisation of the Rhineland, 1936

Overview: A look at French Intelligence Machinery in 1936

Document three 'Note Concerning the Consequences that Follow, from a Military Point of View, from Germany's Renunciation of the Locarno Treaty'

Commentary: The Military Consequences for France of the End of Locarno

The Creation of XX Committee, 1940

Overview: Deception and Double Cross

Document 4 'Memorandum on the "Double Agent" System'

Commentary: Deception and 'Double Cross' in the Second World War

The Creation of a Vietnamese Intelligence Service, 1946-50

Overview: The Early Development of Vietnamese Intelligence Services (1945-50)

Documents five, six and seven Three Documents on Early Vietnamese Intelligence and Security Services

Commentary: Establishing a North Vietnamese Intelligence Service

Commentary: The Development of Vietnamese Intelligence

The Interrogation of Klaus Fuchs, 1950

Overview: Sir Michael Perrin's Interviews with Dr Klaus Fuchs

Document eight (pt. 1) 'Record of Interview with Dr. K. Fuchs on 30th January 1950.'

Document nine (pt. 2) 'Record of Interview with Dr. K. Fuchs on 22nd March 1950.'

Commentary: An Analysis of Sir Michael Perrin's Interviews with Klaus Fuchs: Comparative Soviet Perspectives

The CIA and Oleg Penkovsky, 1961-2

Overview: The Espionage of Oleg Penkovsky

Documents ten to sixteen (excerpts)

Commentary: Penkovsky: A Western Success Story?

American and British Intelligence on South Vietnam, 1963

Overview: The US and Vietnam in 1963

Document seventeen 'The Situation in South Vietnam' (US)

Document eighteen 'The Situation in South Vietnam' (UK)

Commentary: 'In the Final Analysis, it is their War': The United States and South Vietnam in 1963

British Intelligence on the Arab-Israeli Military Balance, 1965

Overview: Between Suez and the Six Day War: Western Intelligence Assessments and the Arab-Israel Conflict, 1957-1967

Document nineteen 'The Military Balance between Israel and the Arab World up to the End of 1966'

Commentary: Assessing the Assessors: JIC Assessment and the Test of Time

A KGB View of CIA Activity against the Soviet Bloc, 1983

Overview: Western Spying on the Soviet Union's Military-Industrial Complex during the Second Cold War

Document twenty 'Multilateral Conference of the Organs Responsible for the Security of the Economy [illegible word or number]'

Commentary: Inside the Soviet Bloc in 1983

A Conversation with Former DCI William E. Colby: Spymaster during the 'Year of the Intelligence Wars'

Commentary: Loch Johnson's Oral History Interview with William Colby, and Johnson's Introduction to that Interview

The Butler Report

Overview: The Butler Report as an Historical Document

Document twenty-one Butler Report (excerpt) 'Conclusions on Iraq'

Commentary: The Butler Report

Commentary: The Butler Report: A US Perspective

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