Overview

The modern-day UK intelligence and security community is the product of over a century of reviews going back to Edwardian spy scares, through two World Wars, and a Cold War. Written by intelligence experts, Intelligence, Security and the State provides an insight into the development of UK intelligence through a selection of the many intelligence reviews that have taken place during this period. How and why these reviews were commissioned and their impact, if any, is analysed in detail. The reviews cover the origins and early development of the community, alongside the political, operational, and financial oversight of British intelligence. Each of the declassified reviews, reproduced here for the first time, are introduced by short essays giving a wider understanding of the UK intelligence community. The book offers a detailed insight into the machinery of government in the UK and British intelligence as a whole.

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Author:   Daniel W.B. Lomas (Assistant Professor in International Relations, University of Nottingham.) ,  Christopher J. Murphy (Lecturer in Intelligence Studies/School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences, University of Salford)
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
Imprint:   Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:  

9781399519250

ISBN 10:   1399519255
Pages:   440
Publication Date:   31 March 2025
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Dedication Introduction: Reviewing the British Intelligence Community 1. Origins: The Secret Service Bureau, 1909 2. Secret Service Committee: Organising Inter-War British intelligence, 1919 - 1931 3. The Gathering Storm: Lord Hankey and the Intelligence Community (1940) 4. Saving SIGINT: Van Cutsem and Bletchley Park (1942) 5. The Secret Intelligence Service and the Bland Report (1944) 6. The Defence of the Realm: Findlater Stewart and MI5 (1945) 7. The Cadogan Report, Homosexuality and the “Missing Diplomats” (1951) 8. Sir Norman Brook and Early Cold War Intelligence (1951) 9. Sir Horace Seymour and the “Secret Service” (1953) 10. The Blame Game: the Bridges Report and “Buster” Crabb (1956) 11. A Police State? Sir Norman Birkett and the Interception of Communications (1957) 12. Sir Gerald Templer and Dervice Intelligence (1960) 13. Spies and Scandal: Romer, Radcliffe and Cunningham 14. Moral Misbehaviour: Lord Denning and the Profumo Affair, 1963 15. Sir Stewart Hampshire, GCHQ and the Cost of SIGINT 16. The Troubles: British intelligence in Northern Ireland, 1979 - 1982 17. Sir Colin Crowe, Cold War Propaganda and the Information Research Department (1976) 18. A Bucket of Whitewash? The Franks Review and the Falklands (1982-3) 19. Intelligence at the End of the Cold War 20. Lord Butler, Intelligence and the Iraq War (2004) Conclusion: Whitewash or Oversight? Bibliography Index

Reviews

'Lomas and Murphy’s volume is a groundbreaking study of how the British state created, reshaped and oversaw the structure and work of its secret agencies over the past 125 years. It tells a story previously untold and one which neither intelligence agencies nor their masters understand fully. It is an essential read for anyone interested in intelligence history.' -- John R. Ferris, University of Calgary, Canada

'Lomas and Murphy's volume is a groundbreaking study of how the British state created, reshaped and oversaw the structure and work of its secret agencies over the past 125 years. It tells a story previously untold and one which neither intelligence agencies nor their masters understand fully. It is an essential read for anyone interested in intelligence history.'--John R. Ferris, University of Calgary, Canada

Author Information

Dan Lomas is Assistant Professor in International Relations at the University of Nottingham. Christopher J. Murphy is Senior Lecturer in Intelligence Studies at the University of Salford.

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