Exploring Intelligence Archives: Enquires into the Secret State (Studies in Intelligence)

351 Pages·2008·9.98 MB·English

by  L. V. Scott

Exploring Intelligence Archives
This edited volume brings together many of the world’s leading scholars of
intelligence with a number of former senior practitioners to facilitate a wide-ranging
dialogue on the central challenges confronting students of intelligence.
Exploring Intelligence Archives presents a series of documents, nearly all of
which are published here for the first time, accompanied by both overview and
commentary sections. The central objectives of this collection are twofold. First,
it seeks to build on existing scholarship on intelligence in deepening our under-
standing of its impact on a series of key events in the international history of the
past century. Further, it aims to explore the different ways in which intelligence
can be studied by bringing together both scholarly and practical expertise to examine
a range of primary material relevant to the history of intelligence since the early
twentieth century.
This book will be of great interest to students of intelligence, strategic and security
studies, foreign policy and international history.
R. Gerald Hughesis Lecturer in Military History in the Department of International
Politics at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.
Peter Jackson is Senior Lecturer in International Politics in the Department of
International Politics at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.
Len Scottis Professor of International Politics in the Department of International
Politics at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.
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Exploring Intelligence
Archives
Enquiries into the secret state
Edited by R. Gerald Hughes,
Peter Jackson and Len Scott
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Exploring intelligence archives : enquiries into the secret state / edited by
R. Gerald Hughes, Peter Jackson, and Len Scott.
p. cm. – (Studies in intelligence)
1. Intelligence service. 2. Intelligence service–Study and teaching.
3. Military intelligence. 4. Military intelligence–Study and teaching.
I. Hughes, R. Gerald. II. Jackson, Peter. III. Scott, L. V. (Leonard Victor),
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Contents
List of documents xi
List of contributors xiii
Acknowledgements xvii
Introduction: enquiries into the ‘secret state’ 1
PETER JACKSON
Notes 10
1 ‘Knowledge is never too dear’: exploring intelligence archives 13
R. GERALD HUGHES AND LEN SCOTT
Notes 29
2 British SIGINT decrypts on the London Naval Conference,
1930 41
Overview: British signals intelligence and the London Naval
Conference, 1930 41
ANDREW WEBSTER
Commentary: Communications intelligence and conference
diplomacy, London, 1930 45
JOHN FERRIS
Commentary: The Japanese navy and the London Naval
Conference 49
PETER MAUCH
Conclusions 53
ANDREW WEBSTER
Notes 55
viii Contents
3 French military intelligence responds to the German
remilitarisation of the Rhineland, 1936 59
Overview: A look at French intelligence machinery in 1936 59
PETER JACKSON
Commentary: The military consequences for France of the end
of Locarno 80
MARTIN S. ALEXANDER
Notes 86
4 The creation of the XX Committee, 1940 93
Overview: Deception and double cross 93
LEN SCOTT
Commentary: Deception and ‘double cross’ in the Second
World War 98
JOHN FERRIS
Notes 101
5 The creation of a Vietnamese intelligence service, 1945–50 103
Overview: The early development of Vietnamese intelligence
services, 1945–50 103
CHRISTOPHER E. GOSCHA
Commentary: Establishing a North Vietnamese intelligence service 116
DAVID MARR
Commentary: The development of Vietnamese intelligence 119
MERLE PRIBBENOW
Notes 122
6 The interrogation of Klaus Fuchs, 1950 123
Overview: Sir Michael Perrin’s interviews with Dr Klaus Fuchs 123
MICHAEL GOODMAN
Commentary: An analysis of Sir Michael Perrin’s interviews with
Klaus Fuchs: comparative Soviet perspectives 133
DAVID HOLLOWAY
Notes 137
Contents ix
7 The CIA and Oleg Penkovsky, 1961–63 141
Overview: The espionage of Oleg Penkovsky 141
CHARLES COGAN
Commentary: Penkovsky: a Western success story? 143
LEN SCOTT
Notes 169
8 American and British intelligence on South Vietnam, 1963 173
Overview: The US and Vietnam in 1963 173
ANDREW PRIEST
Commentary: ‘In the final analysis, it is their war’: Britain,
the United States and South Vietnam in 1963 183
R. GERALD HUGHES
Notes 206
9 British intelligence on the Arab–Israeli military balance, 1965 213
Overview: Between Suez and the Six Day War: Western
intelligence assessments and the Arab–Israeli conflict, 1957–67 213
JAMES R. VAUGHAN
Commentary: Assessing the assessors: JIC assessment and the
test of time 216
YIGAL SHEFFY
Notes 240
10 AKGB view of CIA and other Western espionage against
the Soviet Bloc, 1983 243
Overview: Western spying on the Soviet Union’s military-industrial
complex during the Second Cold War 243
PAUL MADDRELL
Commentary: Inside the Soviet Bloc in 1983 250
MATTHIAS UHL
Notes 253