Overview

This volume draws on Herman's professional experience and personal recollections to examine the past and present of British intelligence. In twenty-one chapters he offers an insider's perspective on the Cold War intelligence contest against the Soviet Union and its continuing legacy today. This includes proposals for intelligence ethics and reform in the twenty-first century, and the declassified copy of his evidence to the 2004 Butler Review. Herman also discusses the role of personalities in the British intelligence community, producing sketches of Cold War contemporaries on the JIC and several Directors of GCHQ. The combination of operational experience and academic reflection makes this volume a unique contribution to intelligence scholarship. Michael Herman (1929-2021) was the world's leading intelligence practitioner-academic. Among his senior roles during a thirty-five year career in Her Majesty's Civil Service, he was Secretary of the Joint Intelligence Committee from 1972-75, and Head of several GCHQ Divisions in the 1970s-80s. After his professional retirement, he was a Gwilym Gibbon Research Fellow at Nuffield College Oxford and founding director of the Oxford Intelligence Group.

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Author:   Michael Herman ,  David Schaefer (Researcher in the Department of War Studies, King’s College London)
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
Imprint:   Edinburgh University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.780kg
ISBN:  

9781474499545

ISBN 10:   1474499546
Pages:   432
Publication Date:   31 March 2022
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Foreword by Lord Butler Preface Part 1 Secrecy and Liberal Society 1. Profiles in Intelligence 2. Rush to Transparency 3. GCHQ De-unionisation 4. Intelligence and Ethical Foreign Policies Part 2 The Cold War 5. Intelligence as Threats and Reassurance 6. What Difference Did It Make 7. The Intelligence War - Reflections on Sigint 8. National Requirements 9. Manual Morse and the Intelligence Gold Standard 10. Teufelsberg Part 3 Organisation and Reform 11. 1945 Organisation 12. Post-Cold War Issues and Opportunities 13. Evidence to Butler 14. Joint Intelligence and Butler 15. Butler Reviewed Part 4 Personalities in British Intelligence 16. Recruitment in 1945 and 'Peculiar Personal Characteristics' 17. Up from the Country 18. JIC 1972-75 19. GCHQ Directors 20. Harry Burke and Able Archer 21. A Special London Contribution

Reviews

As one of the first intelligence practitioners from the cold war to speak openly about his experiences, Michael Herman taught something to every intelligence historian. The essays in this collection illustrate his contribution to the field. They should be read by anyone interested in intelligence history. --John Ferris, University of Calgary

Author Information

Michael Herman was an intelligence practitioner, and author of the acclaimed Intelligence Power in Peace and War (1996) among other works. Among his senior roles during a thirty-five year career in Her Majesty’s Civil Service, he was Secretary of the Joint Intelligence Committee from 1972-75, and Head of several GCHQ Divisions in the 1970s-80s. After his professional retirement, he was a Gwilym Gibbon Research Fellow at Nuffield College Oxford and founding director of the Oxford Intelligence Group. David Schaefer is a researcher in the Department of War Studies at King’s College London. He was previously a Junior Research Fellow at Ormond College in the University of Melbourne, and a Research Associate at Asialink Diplomacy.

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