Spying on the World : the Declassified Documents of the Joint Intelligence Committee, 1936-2013 /

20 case studies explore key moments in the Joint Intelligence Committee's history, from WWII to the War in Iraq, and from the Falklands War to the IRA. Each case study includes an introduction, a full reproduction of an original JIC document that influenced government policy and explanatory foo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Aldrich, Richard J.
Corporate Author:	Ebook Library
Other Authors:	Cormac, Rory, Goodman, Michael S.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2014.
Subjects:	Great Britain. > Joint Intelligence Committee > History > 20th century > Case studies. Great Britain. > Joint Intelligence Committee > History > 21st century > Case studies. Intelligence service > Great Britain > History > 20th century > Case studies. Intelligence service > Great Britain > History > 21st century > Case studies. Great Britain > Foreign relations > 20th century. Great Britain > Foreign relations > 21st century. Intelligence service > Great Britain > History > 20th century. Great Britain. > Joint Intelligence Committee. Intelligence service. Great Britain. 1900 - 2099 Case studies. History. Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Title page; Copyright; Contents; 1 Introduction: The Rise of the Joint Intelligence Committee; 2 Origins of the Joint Intelligence Committee; 3 World War II and the Role of Intelligence in Strategic Planning; 4 A Post-War Intelligence Machinery; 5 Origins of the Soviet Threat; 6 Sigint Targeting; 7 The Berlin Blockade; 8 Chinese Intervention in the Korean War; 9 Estimating Soviet Capabilities; 10 Counterinsurgency; 11 The Suez Crisis; 12 The Cuban Missile Crisis; 13 Vietnam; 14 The Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia, 1968; 15 The Rise of international Terrorism in the Middle East.
16 Northern Ireland: Direct Rule17 The Falklands War; 18 Changing Requirements at the End of the Cold War; 19 War in Iraq: Weapons of Mass Destruction; 20 War in Iraq: Aftermath; 21 The Joint Intelligence Committee and the National Security Council; 22 The Syrian Civil War; 23 Through the Looking Glass: Illusions of Openness and the Study of British Intelligence; Appendix: Chairmen of the Joint Intelligence Committee; Document Sources; Bibliography; Index.