Cautious Beginnings: Canadian Foreign Intelligence, 1939-51
Author:   Kurt F. Jensen
Publisher:   University of British Columbia Press
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9780774814829


Pages:   264
Publication Date:   30 June 2008
Format:   Hardback
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Cautious Beginnings: Canadian Foreign Intelligence, 1939-51


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Author:   Kurt F. Jensen
Publisher:   University of British Columbia Press
Imprint:   University of British Columbia Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.90cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.480kg
ISBN:  

9780774814829


ISBN 10:   0774814829
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   30 June 2008
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Adult education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Further / Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction 1 Foreign Intelligence at the Beginning of the War 2 The Birth of the Examination Unit 3 Building Alliances 4 Canadian HUMINT Collection 5 The Mousetrap Operation, 1942-43 6 Canadian Intelligence at War 7 Planning for Postwar SIGINT 8 Postwar Intelligence Structures 9 The Postwar SIGINT Community Conclusion Notes Bibliography

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Kurt Jensen’s well-researched Cautious Beginnings: Canadian Foreign Intelligence 1939-51 sets out the historical case for Canada’s decision in 1951 to not create its own clandestine foreign intelligence service. -- Robert Henderson * International Journal of Intelligence and Counter Intelligence, Vol 24, No 2 *


Jensen's work will prove to be a significant historiographical foundation on which future scholars will undoubtedly build their own studies of intelligence in the later Cold War and post-9/11 periods. -- Kevin Spooner, Wilfrid Laurier University H-Canada Kurt Jensen's well-researched Cautious Beginnings: Canadian Foreign Intelligence 1939-51 sets out the historical case for Canada's decision in 1951 to not create its own clandestine foreign intelligence service. -- Robert Henderson International Journal of Intelligence and Counter Intelligence, Vol 24, No 2


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Kurt F. Jensen is a former Canadian diplomat whose assignments included work with foreign intelligence. He also teaches political science at Carleton University.

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