Intelligence Studies in Britain and the US: Historiography since 1945
Intelligence Studies in Britain and the US: Historiography since 1945
Editors: Moran, Christopher R. and Murphy, Christopher J.
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
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ISBN: 978-0-74-864627-2
Category: Social Sciences - Criminology & Law
Image Count:
12
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
In this first introduction to these official and unofficial histories, a range of leading contributors narrate and interpret the development of intelligence studies as a discipline. Each chapter showcases new archival material, looking at a particular book or series of books and considering issues of production, censorship, representation and reception.
Table of Contents
- The Editors
- The Contributors
- List of Figures
- Preface by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Intelligence Studies Now and Then - Christopher R. Moran and Christopher J. Murphy
- PART I AMERICAN INTELLIGENCE HISTORIOGRAPHY
- 1 CIA History as a Cold War Battleground: The Forgotten First Wave of Agency Narratives - Richard J. Aldrich
- 2 The Culture of Funding Culture: The CIA and the Congress for Cultural Freedom - Eric Pullin
- 3 ‘Real Substance, Not Just Symbolism’? The CIA and the Representation of Covert Operations in the Foreign Relations of the United States Series - Matthew Jones and Paul McGarr
- 4 Bonum Ex Malo: The Value of Legacy of Ashes in Teaching CIA History - Nicholas Dujmovic
- 5 Narrating Covert Action: The CIA, Historiography and the Cold War - Kaeten Mistry
- 6 FBI Historiography: From Leader to Organisation - Melissa Graves
- 7 Reconceiving Realism: Intelligence Historians and the Fact/Fiction Dichotomy - Simon Willmetts
- 8 The Reality is Stranger than Fiction: Anglo-American Intelligence Cooperation from World War II through the Cold War - Frederick P. Hitz
- PART II BRITISH INTELLIGENCE HISTORIOGRAPHY
- 9 A Plain Tale of Pundits, Players and Professionals: The Historiography of the Great Game - Robert Johnson
- 10 No Cloaks, No Daggers: The Historiography of British Military Intelligence - Jim Beach
- 11 The Study of Interrogation: A Focus on Torture, But What About the Intelligence? - Samantha Newbery
- 12 Whitehall, Intelligence and Official History: Editing SOE in France - Christopher J. Murphy
- 13 A Tale of Torture? Alexander Scotland, The London Cage and Post-War British Secrecy - Daniel W. B. Lomas
- 14 1968 - ‘A Year to Remember’ for the Study of British Intelligence? - Adam D. M. Svendsen
- 15 Their Trade is Treachery: A Retrospective - Chapman Pincher
- 16 Intelligence and ‘Official History’ - Christopher Baxter and Keith Jeffery