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Zusatztext well researched, using a rich pool of sources and seeming to overcome the inherent difficulties of accessing material related to intelligence issues ... a well written and thorough treatise of a not well known area of British intelligence Informationen zum Autor He received his PhD from the University of Aberystwyth in 2010. Klappentext The first history of the Joint Intelligence Bureau - an organisation designed to preserve and advance British capability in military intelligence for the Cold War - shedding light on the largely unknown world of military and economic intelligence after 1945, and how this intelligence influenced British policies throughout the 1950s and 1960s. Zusammenfassung The first history of the Joint Intelligence Bureau - an organisation designed to preserve and advance British capability in military intelligence for the Cold War - shedding light on the largely unknown world of military and economic intelligence after 1945, and how this intelligence influenced British policies throughout the 1950s and 1960s. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: All-source intelligence for the post-war world: Creating the JIB 2: Mapping the enemy: The JIB and topographical intelligence in the early Cold War, 1948-1953 3: Starving the Bear and the Dragon: The JIB and British export controls, 1948-1954 4: The Soviet airborne threat: The JIB on bombers and missiles, 1946-1954 5: The age of vulnerability and 'gaps': The JIB on bombers and missiles, 1954-1961 6: Networks, connections, and links: The international JIB 7: The merger of JIB with service intelligence and the creation of the Defence Intelligence Staff Conclusion
