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41. Churchill's Man of Mystery

    Desmond Morton and the World of Intelligence

    By Gill Bennett

    Series: Government Official History Series

    The mysterious life and career of Desmond Morton, Intelligence officer and personal adviser to Winston Churchill during the Second World War, is exposed for the first time in this study based on full access to official records. After distinguished service as artillery officer and aide-de-camp to...

    Published April 16th 2009 by Routledge
42. Handbook of Intelligence Studies

    Edited by Loch K. Johnson

    This topical volume offers a comprehensive review of secret intelligence organizations and activities. Intelligence has been in the news consistently since 9/11 and the Iraqi WMD errors. Leading experts in the field approach the three major missions of intelligence: collection-and-analysis;...

    Published April 8th 2009 by Routledge
43. Peacekeeping Intelligence

    New Players, Extended Boundaries

    Edited by David Carment, Martin Rudner

    Series: Studies in Intelligence

    This is a new evaluation of the role, dynamics and challenges of intelligence in peacekeeping activities and its place in a much wider social, economic and political context. It assesses the role of coalition forces, law enforcement agencies, development institutions, and non-governmental...

    Published January 29th 2009 by Routledge
44. Secret Intelligence

    A Reader

    Edited by Richard Aldrich, Christopher Andrew, Christopher Andrew, Richard J. Aldrich, Wesley Wark, Wesley K. Wark

    This Reader in the field of intelligence studies focuses on policy, blending classic works on concepts and approaches with more recent essays dealing with current issues and the ongoing debate about the future of intelligence. The subject of secret intelligence has never enjoyed a higher profile....

    Published November 30th 2008 by Routledge
45. Military Intelligence and the Arab Revolt

    The First Modern Intelligence War

    By Polly A. Mohs

    Series: Studies in Intelligence

    Military Intelligence and the Arab Revolt examines the use and exploitation of intelligence in formulating Britain’s strategy for the Arab Revolt during the First World War. It also presents a radical re-examination of the achievements of T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) as an intelligence...

    Published October 31st 2008 by Routledge
46. Exploring Intelligence Archives

    Enquiries into the Secret State

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

    Series: Studies in Intelligence

    This edited volume brings together many of the world’s leading scholars of intelligence with a number of former senior practitioners to facilitate a wide-ranging dialogue on the central challenges confronting students of intelligence. The book presents a series of documents, nearly all of which...

    Published March 18th 2008 by Routledge
47. Twenty-First Century Intelligence

    Edited by Wesley K. Wark

    Series: Studies in Intelligence

    Twenty-First Century Intelligence collects the thinking of some of the foremost experts on the future of intelligence in our new century. The essays contained in this volume are set against the backdrop of the transforming events of the September 11 terrorist attacks. Intelligence plays a central...

    Published December 23rd 2007 by Routledge
48. US Covert Operations and Cold War Strategy

    Truman, Secret Warfare and the CIA, 1945-53

    By Sarah-Jane Corke

    Series: Studies in Intelligence

    Based on recently declassified documents, this book provides the first examination of the Truman Administration’s decision to employ covert operations in the Cold War. Although covert operations were an integral part of America’s arsenal during the late 1940s and early 1950s, the majority of these...

    Published September 5th 2007 by Routledge
49. Stasi

    Shield and Sword of the Party

    By John Christian Schmeidel

    Series: Studies in Intelligence

    This book is a fascinating new examination of one of the most feared and efficient secret services the world has ever known, the Stasi. The East German Stasi was a jewel among the communist secret services, the most trusted by its Russian mother organization the KGB, and even more efficient....

    Published August 29th 2007 by Routledge
50. Intelligence Activities in Ancient Rome

    Trust in the Gods But Verify

    By Rose Mary Sheldon

    Series: Studies in Intelligence

    Professor Sheldon uses the modern concept of the intelligence cycle to trace intelligence activities in Rome whether they were done by private citizens, the government, or the military. Examining a broad range of activities the book looks at the many types of espionage tradecraft that...

    Published July 9th 2007 by Routledge