Intelligence Power in Practice

Michael Herman was an intelligence practitioner, and author of the acclaimed Intelligence Power in Peace and War (1996) among other works. Among his senior roles during a thirty-five year career in Her Majesty’s Civil Service, he was Secretary of the Joint Intelligence Committee from 1972-75, and Head of several GCHQ Divisions in the 1970s-80s. After his professional retirement, he was a Gwilym Gibbon Research Fellow at Nuffield College Oxford and founding director of the Oxford Intelligence Group. David Schaefer is a researcher in the Department of War Studies at King’s College London. He was previously a Junior Research Fellow at Ormond College in the University of Melbourne, and a Research Associate at Asialink Diplomacy.

As one of the first intelligence practitioners from the cold war to speak openly about his experiences, Michael Herman taught something to every intelligence historian. The essays in this collection illustrate his contribution to the field. They should be read by anyone interested in intelligence history.

• Foreword by Lord ButlerPrefacePart 1 Secrecy and Liberal Society1. Profiles in Intelligence2. Rush to Transparency3. GCHQ De-unionisation4. Intelligence and Ethical Foreign PoliciesPart 2 The Cold War5. Intelligence as Threats and Reassurance6. What Difference Did It Make7. The Intelligence War - Reflections on Sigint8. National Requirements9. Manual Morse and the Intelligence Gold Standard10. TeufelsbergPart 3 Organisation and Reform11. 1945 Organisation12. Post-Cold War Issues and Opportunities13. Evidence to Butler14. Joint Intelligence and Butler15. Butler ReviewedPart 4 Personalities in British Intelligence16. Recruitment in 1945 and 'Peculiar Personal Characteristics'17. Up from the Country18. JIC 1972-7519. GCHQ Directors20. Harry Burke and Able Archer21. A Special London Contribution