Exploring Intelligence Archives: Enquiries into the Secret State

by Hughes; R Gerald

• ISBN13: 9780415349987
• ISBN10: 0415349982
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-04-03
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

If deception, deceit and manipulation are integral to the business of intelligence gathering - what are the implications for the historical record? Are intelligence archives themselves officially constructed to allow only manipulated histories? This new book examines these questions and explores how various kinds of people involved in studying and/or practicing intelligence, view texts and issues from different perspectives. It shows how scholars have long sought to make use of relevant archives, but constraints on access to such sources have been considerable. With the end of the Cold War and other changes in official attitudes, more intelligence documents are now becoming available. This is a fascinating new examination that shows how no document speaks entirely for itself, though some may be more eloquent or assertive than others. The interpretation of the archival record (as indeed the non-archival record) is at the heart of scholarship, and challenges in interpretingtexts are generic problems for any researcher.

Table of Contents

List of documents	p. xi
List of contributors	p. xiii
Acknowledgements	p. xvii
Introduction: enquiries into the 'secret state'	p. 1
Notes	p. 10
'Knowledge is never too dear': exploring intelligence archives	p. 13
Notes	p. 29
British SIGINT decrypts on the London Naval Conference, 1930	p. 41
Overview: British signals intelligence and the London Naval Conference, 1930	p. 41
Commentary: Communications intelligence and conference diplomacy, London, 1930	p. 45
Commentary: The Japanese navy and the London Naval Conference	p. 49
Conclusions	p. 53
Notes	p. 55
French military intelligence responds to the German remilitarisation of the Rhineland, 1936	p. 59
Overview: A look at French intelligence machinery in 1936	p. 59
Commentary: The military consequences for France of the end of Locarno	p. 80
Notes	p. 86
The creation of the XX Committee, 1940	p. 93
Overview: Deception and double cross	p. 93
Commentary: Deception and 'double cross' in the Second World War	p. 98
Notes	p. 101
The creation of a Vietnamese intelligence service, 1945-50	p. 103
Overview: The early development of Vietnamese intelligence services, 1945-50	p. 103
Commentary: Establishing a North Vietnamese intelligence service	p. 116
Commentary: The development of Vietnamese intelligence	p. 119
Notes	p. 122
The interrogation of Klaus Fuchs, 1950	p. 123
Overview: Sir Michael Perrin's interviews with Dr Klaus Fuchs	p. 123
Commentary: An analysis of Sir Michael Perrin's interviews with Klaus Fuchs: comparative Soviet perspectives	p. 133
Notes	p. 137
The CIA and Oleg Penkovsky, 1961-63	p. 141
Overview: The espionage of Oleg Penkovsky	p. 141
Commentary: Penkovsky: a Western success story?	p. 143
Notes	p. 169
American and British intelligence on South Vietnam, 1963	p. 173
Overview: The US and Vietnam in 1963	p. 173
Commentary: 'In the final analysis, it is their war': Britain, the United States and South Vietnam in 1963	p. 183
Notes	p. 206
British intelligence on the Arab-Israeli military balance, 1965	p. 213
Overview: Between Suez and the Six Day War: Western intelligence assessments and the Arab-Israeli conflict, 1957-67	p. 213
Commentary: Assessing the assessors: JIC assessment and the test of time	p. 216
Notes	p. 240
A KGB view of CIA and other Western espionage against the Soviet Bloc, 1983	p. 243
Overview: Western spying on the Soviet Union's military-industrial complex during the Second Cold War	p. 243
Commentary: Inside the Soviet Bloc in 1983	p. 250
Notes	p. 253
A conversation with former DCI William E. Colby: spymaster during the 'Year of the Intelligence Wars'	p. 255
Commentary: Loch Johnson's oral history interview with William Colby, and Johnson's introduction to that interview	p. 270
Notes	p. 273
The Butler Report, 2004	p. 277
Overview: The Butler Report as an historical document	p. 277
Commentary: The Butler Report	p. 309
Commentary: The Butler Report: a US perspective	p. 313
Notes	p. 317
Index	p. 323
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