| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 418 pages) |
| Series |
Intelligence, surveillance and secret warfare
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Intelligence, surveillance and secret warfare.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Showcases Michael Herman's critical reflections from his thirty-five years of intelligence experience to examine the past and present of British intelligence. |
| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Part 1 Secrecy and Liberal Society -- 1 Profiles in Intelligence: An Interview with Michael Herman -- 2 The Rush to Transparency: Releasing Wartime Codebreaking Secrets -- 3 GCHQ De-unionisation -- 4 Intelligence and Ethical Foreign Policy -- PART 2 The Cold War -- 5 Intelligence as Threats and Reassurance -- 6 What Difference Did It Make? -- 7 The Intelligence War: Reflections on Sigint -- 8 National Requirements -- 9 Manual Morse and the Intelligence Gold Standard -- 10 Teufelsberg -- PART 3 Organisation and Reform -- 11 1945 Organisation -- 12 Post-Cold War Issues and Opportunities -- 13 Evidence to Butler -- 14 Joint Intelligence and Butler -- 15 Butler Reviewed -- PART 4 Personalities in British Intelligence -- 16 Recruitment in 1945 and 'Peculiar Personal Characteristics' -- 17 Up from the Country: Cabinet Office Impressions 1972-5 -- 18 The Joint Intelligence Committee 1972-5 -- 19 GCHQ Directors -- 20 Harry Burke and Able Archer -- 21 A Special London Contribution -- Index |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Herman, Michael, 1929- https://isni.org/isni/0000000110657346
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Intelligence service -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
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Intelligence service -- Great Britain -- History -- 21st century.
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Cold War -- Secret service.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain. |
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Intelligence service |
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Great Britain https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJdmp7p3cx8hpmJ8HvmTpP |
| Chronological Term |
1900-2099 |
| Genre/Form |
History
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| Added Author |
Schaefer, David (Professor in international relations), contributor. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjx4Cxk6hRdMMmBJFtvkcP
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Herman, Michael, 1929- Intelligence power in practice. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022] 9781474499545 (OCoLC)1285485875 |
| ISBN |
9781474499569 (electronic bk.) |
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1474499562 (electronic bk.) |
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9781474499545 |
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1474499546 |
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9781474499576 (ePub ebook) |
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1474499570 |
| Standard No. |
10.1515/9781474499569 |
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