In Spies We Trust. The Story of Western Intelligence, Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2013)

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Fusing drug enforcement: a study of the El Paso Intelligence Center

This article examines the evolution of the El Paso Intelligence Center (EPIC), a key intelligence component of the Drug Enforcement Administration, to shed light on fusion efforts in drug enforcement. Since 1974, EPIC has strived to fuse the resources and capabilities of multiple government agencies to counter drug trafficking and related threats along the Southwest US border. While undergoing a steady growth, the Center has confronted a host of challenges that illuminate the uses and limits of multi-agency endeavors in drug enforcement. An evaluative study of the Center shows that it is well aligned with the federal government priorities in the realm of drug enforcement; however the extent to which the Center’s activities support the government’s efforts in this domain is not so clear. The Center needs to improve the way it reviews its own performance to better adapt and serve its customers

‘Standing on the shoulders of giants’: diversity and scholarship in Intelligence Studies

This study takes stock of the field of Intelligence Studies thanks to a quantitative review of all the articles published in the two main journals in the field: Intelligence and National Security and the International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence. Particular attention is paid to the diversity of the authors publishing in these two journals and the evolution of the issues they discuss. Publications in the field are widely authored by males based in the United States and the United Kingdom who write about Western intelligence and security organizations. Recent years have seen a slight diversification in the field but further efforts will be necessary to develop a more eclectic body of researchers and research on intelligence and national security

Qualitative research interviews and the study of national security intelligence

This article explores the rationales for using interviews as a research method to study national security intelligence, and provides a step-by-step guide for researchers to prepare, conduct, and use interviews in research fields limited by government secrecy. The epistemological and methodological challenges posed by qualitative interviews in the field of intelligence studies are not fundamentally different from those faced in the broader field of international relations. However, government secrecy exacerbates these challenges and increases the need to carefully design and conduct interviews in intelligence research. Scholars of international relations can draw lessons from the best practices of intelligence researchers to overcome these challenges. At the same time, contemporary methodological and epistemological developments in the field of international relations have the potential to broaden the study of intelligence. <br/><br/> Este artículo explica las razones que avalan el uso de las entrevistas como método de investigación para analizar la inteligencia de seguridad nacional. Además, incluye una guía paso a paso para que los investigadores puedan preparar, realizar y usar las entrevistas en áreas de investigación limitadas por el secreto gubernamental. Los desafíos epistemológicos y metodológicos que representan las entrevistas cualitativas en el área de los estudios de inteligencia no difieren, en esencia, de los que representa el amplio campo de las relaciones internacionales. Sin embargo, el secreto gubernamental intensifica dichos desafíos e incrementa la necesidad de diseñar y realizar con cuidado las entrevistas destinadas a la investigación de inteligencia. Los estudiosos de las relaciones internacionales pueden aprender de la labor realizada por los investigadores de inteligencia para superar esos desafíos. Al mismo tiempo, los desarrollos metodológicos y epistemológicos de la época contemporánea en el campo de las relaciones internacionales tienen el potencial de expandir el estudio de inteligencia

What science can teach us about “Enhanced Interrogation”

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From information to cybersecurity: bridging the public-private divide

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Profiles in intelligence: an interview with Sir David Omand

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Les Espions de la Terreur

Les Espions de la Terreur, by Matthieu Suc, Paris, HarperCollins, 2018, 490 pp., €19.90 (paperback), ISBN 979-1-0339-0265-2

French paramilitary actions during the Algerian War of Independence, 1956-1958

The archives of the Secretariat General for African and Malagasy Affairs (1958-1974) include a variety of documents on French intelligence in a post-war era marked by decolonisation. Among them is a 6-page long table synthesising information on 38 paramilitary operations conducted or cancelled from January 1956 to March 1958, as well as nine additional operations that were ‘in preparation’ at the time. A detailed analysis of this document adds to our understanding of the French experience with covert action in the context of the Algerian War of Independence, and shows how the fog and friction of ‘secret war’ reinforce the subjective nature of reporting on and assessing covert action’s effectiveness