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1. East German Foreign Intelligence

   Myth, Reality and Controversy

   Edited by Kristie Macrakis, Thomas Wegener Friis, Helmut Müller-Enbergs

   Series: Studies in Intelligence

   This edited book examines the East German foreign intelligence service (Hauptverwaltung Aufklärung, or HVA) as a historical problem, covering politics, scientific-technical and military intelligence and counterintelligence. The contributors broaden the conventional view of East German...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
2. Understanding the Intelligence Cycle

   Edited by Mark Phythian

   Series: Studies in Intelligence

   This book critically analyses the concept of the intelligence cycle, highlighting the nature and extent of its limitations and proposing alternative ways of conceptualising the intelligence process. The concept of the intelligence cycle has been central to the study of intelligence. As...

   Published May 13th 2013 by Routledge
3. Britain, America and Anti-Communist Propaganda 1945-53

   The Information Research Department

   By Andrew Defty

   Series: Studies in Intelligence

   In the Cold War battle for hearts and minds Britain was the first country to formulate a coordinated global response to communist propaganda. In January 1948, the British government launched a new propaganda policy designed to 'oppose the inroads of communism' by taking the offensive against it.' A...

   Published May 2nd 2013 by Routledge
4. Russia and the Cult of State Security

   The Chekist Tradition, From Lenin to Putin

   By Julie Fedor

   Series: Studies in Intelligence

   This book explores the mythology woven around the Soviet secret police and the Russian cult of state security that has emerged from it. Tracing the history of this mythology from the Soviet period through to its revival in contemporary post-Soviet Russia, the volume argues that successive Russian...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
5. Codebreaker in the Far East

   By Alan Stripp

   Series: Studies in Intelligence

   This is the first book to describe British wartime success in breaking Japanese codes of dazzling variety and great complexity which contributed to the victory in Burma three months before Hiroshima. Written for the general reader, this first-hand account describes the difficulty of decoding one of...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
6. Improving Intelligence Analysis

   Bridging the Gap between Scholarship and Practice

   By Stephen Marrin

   Series: Studies in Intelligence

   This book on intelligence analysis written by intelligence expert Dr. Stephen Marrin argues that scholarship can play a valuable role in improving intelligence analysis. Improving intelligence analysis requires bridging the gap between scholarship and practice. Compared to the more...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
7. The Politics and Strategy of Clandestine War

   Special Operations Executive, 1940-1946

   Edited by Neville Wylie

   Series: Studies in Intelligence

   This fascinating new collection of essays on Britain’s Special Operations Executive (SOE) explores the ‘non-military’ aspects of British special operations in the Second World War. It details how SOE was established in the summer of 1940 to ‘set Europe ablaze’, as Churchill memorably put it. This...

   Published November 14th 2012 by Routledge
8. Mussolini's Propaganda Abroad

   Subversion in the Mediterranean and the Middle East, 1935-1940

   By Manuela Williams

   Series: Studies in Intelligence

   This is the first major study in English of Fascist Italy’s overseas propaganda. Using rare Italian and French captured documents, this is also the first investigation into the relationship between Mussolini’s regime and Arab nationalist movements This new account covers propaganda and subversive...

   Published November 1st 2012 by Routledge
9. Controlling Intelligence

   Edited by Glenn P. Hastedt

   Series: Studies in Intelligence

   The vital ingredient in the formulation and execution of a successful foreign policy is intelligence. For the USA, as the Bay of Pigs incident and the Iran-Contra affair have shown, controlling intelligence is a problem which policy-makers and concerned citizens have rarely examined and imperfectly...

   Published September 12th 2012 by Routledge
10. The US Government, Citizen Groups and the Cold War

    The State-Private Network

    Edited by Helen Laville, Hugh Wilford

    Series: Studies in Intelligence

    This new book examines the construction, activities and impact of the network of US state and private groups in the Cold War. By moving beyond state-dominated, ‘top-down’ interpretations of international relations and exploring instead the engagement and mobilization of whole societies and...

    Published September 12th 2012 by Routledge