Intelligence Studies in Britain and the US

Dr. Christopher R. Moran is an Assistant Professor of US National Security in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick. He is also a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow. Previously, he was a research assistant on the AHRC-funded project, ‘Landscapes of Secrecy: The CIA and the Contested Record of US Foreign Policy’. He is the author of Classified: Secrecy and the State in Modern Britain (2012). Christopher J. Murphy is Senior Lecturer in Intelligence Studies at the University of Salford.

A much-needed examination of the extensive and rapidly growing historiography of intelligence studies. It addresses the difficulties posed by official secrecy, how real world developments influenced historiography, and the recent trend toward state-sanctioned histories. Given the diversity of the literature examined, it is fitting that the contributors range from scholars to journalists and intelligence professionals … Summing Up: Recommended.

• PrefaceRhodri Jeffreys-JonesIntroduction: Intelligence Studies Now and ThenChristopher R. Moran and Christopher J. MurphyPart I. American Intelligence Historiography1. CIA History as a Cold War Battleground: The Forgotten First Wave of Agency NarrativesRichard J. Aldrich2. The Culture of Funding Culture: The CIA and the Congress for Cultural FreedomEric Pullin3. ‘Real Substance, Not Just Symbolism’? The CIA and the Representation of Covert Operations in the Foreign Relations of the United States SeriesMatthew Jones and Paul McGarr4. Bonum Ex Malo: The Value of Legacy of Ashes in Teaching CIA HistoryNicholas Dujmovic5. Narrating Covert Action: The CIA, Historiography and the Cold WarKaeten Mistry6. FBI Historiography: From Leader to OrganisationMelissa Graves7. Reconceiving Realism: Intelligence Historians and the Fact/Fiction DichotomySimon Willmetts8. The Reality is Stranger than Fiction: Anglo-American Intelligence Cooperation from World War Two through the Cold WarFrederick P. HitzPart II. British Intelligence Historiography9. A Plain Tale of Pundits, Players and Professionals: The Historiography of the Great GameRobert Johnson10. No Cloaks, No Daggers: The Historiography of British Military IntelligenceJim Beach11. The Study of Interrogation: A Focus on Torture, But What About the Intelligence?Samantha Newbery12. Whitehall, Intelligence and Official History: Editing SOE in FranceChristopher J. Murphy13. A Tale of Torture? Alexander Scotland, The London Cage and Post-War British SecrecyDaniel Lomas14. 1968 – ‘A Year to Remember’ for the Study of British Intelligence?Adam D. M. Svendsen15. Their Trade is Treachery: A RetrospectiveChapman Pincher16. Intelligence and ‘Official History’Christopher Baxter and Keith JefferyIndex