{"title":"Why Do We Need a New Research Agenda for the Study of Intelligence?","authors":"Hager Ben Jaffel, Sebastian Larsson","doi":"10.1080/08850607.2023.2222342","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08850607.2023.2222342","url":null,"abstract":"Published in International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence (Ahead of Print, 2023)","PeriodicalId":45249,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138512232","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rational Agony","authors":"Michael Skerker","doi":"10.1080/08850607.2022.2057183","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08850607.2022.2057183","url":null,"abstract":"Perhaps this is asking too much, given that all the sources are secondary. Nevertheless, Ridley’s book goes some way to showing how what we might now call the “cognitive dissonance” between the German military/political leadership and its intelligence product constituted not so much a failure of intelligence but was part of a grand strategic project that no amount of “truth to power” telling intelligence was likely to alter. The German strategy was both defeated and self-defeating; to that extent, it is quite straightforward to add poverty of intelligence to the balance sheet of defeat. The analysis becomes more complex when looking at the British account. Not defeated, certainly. Victorious, yes, in the counterair battle but helpless to prevent the ensuing “Blitz” of 1940–1941. REFERENCES","PeriodicalId":45249,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74072907","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ebb and Flow of Wartime Intelligence","authors":"Carl Anthony Wege","doi":"10.1080/08850607.2022.2032270","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08850607.2022.2032270","url":null,"abstract":"Rupert Allason—most commonly known by his pen name, Nigel West—has had an impressive writing career, with more than 30 books focusing on intelligence and espionage. To be sure, West’s breadth of understanding of our British allies is uncommonly granular, and Secret War: The Story of SOE Britain’s Wartime Sabotage Organization—one of his most recent volumes—is a case in point. In Secret War, West describes a reality of wartime chaos marked by heroism, betrayal, error, and concession that was eclipsed in a postwar world more interested in a sanitized narrative of valor lest those rebuilding a devastated Europe be scandalized by their wartime compromises. The core Special Operations Executive (SOE) was sired in 1940 from the “black propaganda” organization known as Electra House and Branch “D” of the Secret Intelligence Service (Military Intelligence 6 [MI6] or SIS), responsible for sabotage. The core of 140 intelligence officers would serve under three SOE executive directors and eventually manage a cadre of 9,000 agents that would attempt to implement Winston Churchill’s admonition to “set Europe ablaze” across the whole of the British war effort from Scandinavia to Asia. In the summer of 1940, the Sitzkrieg ended, and the Wehrmacht drove through the Ardennes, thundered across France—stunning the Western allies and creating havoc as the British SIS infrastructure in France and its “Z” network dissolved as quickly as the Maginot Line. SIS Section D was then little more than an unfunded paper organization, rescued by an Americanborn British tycoon named Chester Beatty, who provided seed monies out of his personal resources to get things off the ground. Section D began coordinating with MI (R or Research),","PeriodicalId":45249,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79381349","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Inferences and Consequences","authors":"J. Wirtz","doi":"10.1080/08850607.2022.2066460","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08850607.2022.2066460","url":null,"abstract":"would be ineffective (compared to 10% for liberals). The authors conclude with considerations about how persuadable people are regarding torture. They did not find great cause for optimism for those of us who would like to persuade people that torture is immoral and inefficacious. A maximum of 25% of people are persuadable—not insignificant—but it is much easier to convince them to wrongly embrace the efficacy of torture than persuade them of the truth! Again, some people endorsed torture even when told it would not work, and support for torture also increased when respondents were shown prompts of effective noncoercive interrogation. Other scholars have shown people tend to “double down” on false beliefs when presented contrary evidence when those beliefs are tied up with their identity. For some, willingness to torture may well be one of those beliefs, tied up in some people’s notions of patriotism, toughness, and resoluteness. In all, this short book makes a unique and enlightening addition to the torture debate.","PeriodicalId":45249,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91281665","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Improving Standard Text","authors":"Carol E. B. Choksy","doi":"10.1080/08850607.2023.2224463","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08850607.2023.2224463","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45249,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76597821","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Anatomy of Operation Pimlico","authors":"Avner Barnea","doi":"10.1080/08850607.2023.2219627","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08850607.2023.2219627","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45249,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78704359","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Complex Intelligence Designs","authors":"Olga Bertelsen","doi":"10.1080/08850607.2023.2220646","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08850607.2023.2220646","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45249,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90959951","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Artificial Account of Intelligence–Technology Nexus","authors":"Joel Brenner","doi":"10.1080/08850607.2023.2220647","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08850607.2023.2220647","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45249,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78733169","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The FBI’s Border Coverage (BOCOV) Program and the Ambiguity of Intelligence Missions","authors":"Darren E. Tromblay","doi":"10.1080/08850607.2023.2221825","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08850607.2023.2221825","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Intelligence services must routinely operate in liminal spaces, both operationally and bureaucratically. The Border Coverage (BOCOV) Program of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was a Cold War example of an agency seeking to address the vulnerability inherent to a geographic liminal space. Its implementation of the program illustrated the impact of bureaucratic borders—between the FBI and Central Intelligence Agency and between Intelligence Community (IC) and non-IC agencies. Lessons learned, through the implementation of BOCOV, about interagency relations continue to be applicable as the United States contends with the cyber environment, an even more porous space than the physical U.S.–Mexican border.","PeriodicalId":45249,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78678009","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Intelligence Authorization Acts: Their Impact on the Intelligence Community","authors":"Mark A. Jensen","doi":"10.1080/08850607.2023.2214326","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08850607.2023.2214326","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45249,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73342483","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}