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The Year of Intelligence in the United States
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 329

The Year of Intelligence in the United States

This book will offer a unique approach to the Year of Intelligence, the sixteen-month period between January 1975 and April 1976 that saw the innermost secrets of various US intelligence agencies laid bare before the world. After allegations of intelligence abuses were made in the press, Congress investigated and revealed numerous cases of unwarranted and unconstitutional activity conducted by a number of intelligence agencies. Chief among the investigations was the Senate enquiry, popularly known as the Church Committee after its chairman, Senator Frank Church of Idaho. This study’s objective is to examine the relationship between national security policy and public opinion using extensiv...

The Year of Intelligence in the United States
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 335

The Year of Intelligence in the United States

This book will offer a unique approach to the Year of Intelligence, the sixteen-month period between January 1975 and April 1976 that saw the innermost secrets of various US intelligence agencies laid bare before the world. After allegations of intelligence abuses were made in the press, Congress investigated and revealed numerous cases of unwarranted and unconstitutional activity conducted by a number of intelligence agencies. Chief among the investigations was the Senate enquiry, popularly known as the Church Committee after its chairman, Senator Frank Church of Idaho. This study’s objective is to examine the relationship between national security policy and public opinion using extensiv...

Intelligence Oversight in Times of Transnational Impunity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 224

Intelligence Oversight in Times of Transnational Impunity

This book adopts a critical lens to look at the workings of Western intelligence and intelligence oversight over time and space. Largely confined to the sub-field of intelligence studies, scholarly engagements with intelligence oversight have typically downplayed the violence carried out by secretive agencies. These studies have often served to justify weak oversight structures and promoted only marginal adaptations of policy frameworks in the wake of intelligence scandals. The essays gathered in this volume challenge the prevailing doxa in the academic field, adopting a critical lens to look at the workings of intelligence oversight in Europe and North America. Through chapters spanning acr...

American and British Soft Power in Iran, 1953-1960
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 242

American and British Soft Power in Iran, 1953-1960

This book offers a distinctive approach to understanding Anglo-American relations with Iran in the early Cold War. It establishes how the United Kingdom and United States used soft power between 1953 and 1960 to combat communism and promote their respective ways of life in Iran. It identifies their motives, the types of initiatives employed, and the extent to which they perceived their policies to be a success. It is a historical case study through which wider conclusions regarding UK and US foreign policy can be drawn. As well as illustrating the competitive tensions within the Anglo-American 'special relationship', it highlights the role of individuals in the making and shaping of diplomatic endeavours. More broadly, the analysis of UK and US interactions in Iran through the prism of soft power underlines that there was more to both countries’ Cold War foreign policies than the containment of communism.

NATO and the Strategic Defence Initiative
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 264

NATO and the Strategic Defence Initiative

This book explores the largely neglected issue of responses to the US Strategic Defence Initiative (SDI, or the 'Star Wars' missile defence programme) across NATO. The chapters here explore the reactions of different Western allies to the announcement of the SDI in 1983 and especially the 1985 invitation to participate. While existing studies have explored the origins of the American programme and the role it may have played in ending the Cold War, this volume breaks new ground by considering the impact of the SDI on transatlantic relations in the 1980s. Based on newly available archival sources, this volume re-evaluates the responses of eight NATO member-state governments, as well as the So...

President's Kill List
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 401

President's Kill List

From Fidel Castro to Qassem Soleimani, the US government has been involved in an array of assassinations and assassination attempts against foreign leaders and officials. The President's Kill List reveals how the US government has relied on a variety of methods, from the use of poison to the delivery of sniper rifles, and from employing hitmen to simply laying the groundwork for local actors to do the deed themselves. It shows not only how policymakers decided on assassination but also the level of Presidential control over these decisions. Tracing the history of the US government's approach to assassination, the book analyses the evolution of assassination policies and, for the first time, reveals how successive administrations - through private justifications and public legitimations - ensured assassination remained an available tool.

A Question of Standing
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 313

A Question of Standing

A Question of Standing deals with recognizable events that have shaped the history of the first 75 years of the CIA. Unsparing in its accounts of dirty tricks and their consequences, it values the agency's intelligence and analysis work to offer balanced judgements that avoid both celebration and condemnation of the CIA. The mission of the CIA, derived from U-1 in World War I more than from World War II's OSS, has always been intelligence. Seventy-five years ago, in the year of its creation, the National Security Act gave the agency, uniquely in world history up to that point, a democratic mandate to pursue that mission of intelligence. It gave the CIA a special standing in the conduct of US...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation [2 volumes]
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 739

The Federal Bureau of Investigation [2 volumes]

  • Categories: Law

This authoritative set provides a one-stop resource for understanding specific FBI controversies as well as for those looking to understand the full history, law enforcement authority, and inner workings of the nation's most famous and important federal law enforcement agency. This authoritative two-volume reference resource uses a combination of encyclopedia entries and primary sources to provide a comprehensive overview of the FBI, detailing its history, most famous leaders and agents, institutional structure and authority, law enforcement responsibilities, reporting relationships to other parts of government, and major events and controversies. Today the FBI sits squarely at the intersect...

Inteligența artificială în serviciile de informații, apărare și securitatea națională
  • Language: ro
  • Pages: 33

Inteligența artificială în serviciile de informații, apărare și securitatea națională

Acest eseu explorează utilizarea inteligenței artificiale de către serviciile de informații din întreaga lume și rolul său critic în domeniul analizei intelligence, în apărare și securitatea națională. Serviciile de informații joacă un rol crucial în securitatea națională, iar adoptarea tehnologiilor inteligenței artificiale a avut un impact semnificativ asupra operațiunilor lor. De asemenea, examinează diferitele aplicații ale inteligenței artificiale în serviciile de informații, implicațiile, provocările și considerațiile etice asociate cu utilizarea acesteia. Eseul subliniază necesitatea cercetării și dezvoltării continue în domeniul inteligenței artificiale pentru a se asigura că serviciile de informații. și în general apărarea și securitatea națională se pot adapta în mod eficient la amenințările emergente. CUPRINS: Abstract Rezumat Introducere Evoluția IA în intelligence, apărare și securitate națională Utilizări și aplicații Implicații și avantaje Strategii și implementare - Un exemplu de succes: SABLE SPEAR Provocări și limitări Concluzie Bibliografie DOI: 10.58679/MM53113

Mistar ar Fistar Mostyn
  • Language: cy
  • Pages: 121

Mistar ar Fistar Mostyn

An exciting discovery by Alwen, who hails from Llandudno, and Olivier, whose roots are on the Chagos Islands, bring the young people together. Will they be able to bring life to their histories?