Spying on the World: The Declassified Documents of the Joint Intelligence Committee, 1936-2013
Spying on the World: The Declassified Documents of the Joint Intelligence Committee, 1936-2013
Editor/Author
Aldrich, Richard J., Cormac, Rory and Goodman, Michael S.
Publication Year: 2014
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Single-User Purchase Price:
$140.00

Unlimited-User Purchase Price:
$210.00
ISBN: 978-0-74-867856-3
Category: Social Sciences - Criminology & Law
Image Count:
9
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
This book reveals the declassified papers of the JIC, shining a light on the workings of Whitehalls secret world and the vital, previously unknown, role played by intelligence in pivotal events across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Table of 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 Rule
- 17. 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