Writing the Official History of the Joint Intelligence Committee

This article recounts the experience of a professional historian in being given the keys to the kingdom: access to the classified vaults of Britain’s Joint Intelligence Committee. This article includes some of the problems in having access, but complying with the sensitivities around official accounts, difficulties in writing a global history, or trying to make the work of a committee interesting and accessible, and of trying to determine the impact of intelligence on policy

Classical Opacity

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView

The Joint Intelligence Committee and Reading the Russian Mindset

On November 23, 2021, Professor Michael Goodman of King's College London, presented on The Joint Intelligence Committee and Reading the Russian Mindset at the 2021 CASIS West Coast Security Conference. The key points discussed in this presentation included an overview of the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC), evaluation of their predictions and actions against Russian threats, and the conditions they put forward to demonstrate that a country would wage war