Ethics of Spying: A Reader for the Intelligence Professional

Jan Goldman is a researcher and educator for over 40 years focusing on intelligence studies. He is currently Professor of Intelligence and Security Studies at The Citadel, Military College of South Carolina. He has taught at the National Intelligence University, CIA University, and the FBI Academy at Quantico, Virginia. He is the editor-in-chief of the highly respected International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence;the founding editor for professional textbooks – Security Professionals Intelligence Education Series (S.P.I.E.S); a member of several academic, research and publishing advisory boards; co-founder of the non-profit International Intelligence Ethics Association; and the founding editor of the International Journal of Intelligence Ethics.

• Foreword PrefaceAcknowledgments IntroductionPart 1: Understanding This Oxymoron 11 Ethics and IntelligenceJ. E. Drexel Godfrey2 Is Ethical Intelligence a Contradiction in Terms?Jennifer Morgan Jones3 Beyond the Oxymoron: Exploring Ethics through the Intelligence CycleHans Born and Aidan Wills4 Ethics and Morality in U.S. Secret IntelligenceArthur S. Hulnick and Daniel W. Mattausch5 Ethics of Human Intelligence Operations: Of MICE and MenDonald A. Petkus6 Tension and Strategy: Ethics PhobiaJan Goldman7 Tension and Strategy: Sources and Bypassing StrategiesMark PhythianPart 2: Ethics and Professionalism8 Introduction to the Doolittle Commission Report on the Covert Activities of the Central Intelligence Agency9 Pre–World War II Office of Naval Intelligence’s Special Intelligence MemorandumBackground by Randy Balano and Memorandum by John L. Riheldaffer10 Professionalization of IntelligenceGeorge Allen11 The Need for Improvement: Integrity, Ethics, and the CIAKent Pekel12 Guarding against Politicization: A Message to AnalystsCIA Director Robert M. Gates13 Memorandum: One Person Can Make a DifferenceBackground by Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) and Memorandum by Andrew Wilkie14 Ethics and Intelligence after September 2001Michael HermanPart 3: Ethics and Intelligence Collection15 Intelligence Collection and Analysis: Dilemmas and DecisionsJohn B. Chomeau and Anne C. Rudolph16 Ethics for the New SurveillanceGary T. Marx17 “As Rays of Light to the Human Soul”? Moral Agents and Intelligence GatheringToni Erskine18 Moral Damage and the Justification of Intelligence Collection from Human SourcesJohn P. Langan, S.J.19 An Ethical Defense of Torture in InterrogationFritz Allhoff20 U.S. Army Interrogator Survey on EthicsRebeca BoltonPart 4: Ethics and Covert Operations21 Legitimacy of Covert Action: Sorting out the Moral ResponsibilitiesLincoln P. Bloomfield Jr.22 Covert Intervention a Moral ProblemCharles R. Beitz23 Managing Covert Political Action: Guideposts from Just War TheoryJames A. Barry24 Ethics of Covert OperationsLoch K. JohnsonPart 5: Ethical Frameworks25 Just Intelligence TheoryWilliam C. Plouffe Jr.26 Ethics, Intelligence, and Preemptive and Preventive ActionsRalph L. DeFalco III27 Speak No Evil: Intelligence Ethics in IsraelShlomo Shpiro28 Using Private Corporations to Conduct Intelligence Activities for National Security Purposes: An Ethical AppraisalJames E. Roper29 Finding a Balance: When Professional Ethics Conflicts with Outside ScholarshipJan GoldmanContributor Biographies When Articles Were Published