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