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Intelligence power in practice

Summary: Showcases Michael Herman's critical reflections from his thirty-five years of intelligence experience to examine the past and present of British intelligence.

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  • ISBN: 1474499570
  • ISBN: 9781474499576
  • ISBN: 1474499546
  • ISBN: 9781474499545
  • ISBN: 1474499562
  • ISBN: 9781474499569
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 418 pages)
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  • Publisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note: 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
Source of Description Note:
Print version record.
Subject: Herman, Michael -- 1929-
Intelligence service -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
Intelligence service -- Great Britain -- History -- 21st century
Cold War -- Secret service
Guerre froide -- Service secret
HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain
Intelligence service
Great Britain
Genre: electronic book > ebook
History

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