£69.99
Publication Date:
31 Mar 2013
Publisher:
Edinburgh University Press
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Description
The first introduction to writing about intelligence and intelligence services. Secrecy has never stopped people from writing about intelligence. From memoirs and academic texts to conspiracy-laden exposes and spy novels, writing on intelligence abounds. Now, this new account uncovers intelligence historiography's hugely important role in shaping popular understandings and the social memory of intelligence. 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.
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 Two 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 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; Index.
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