In spies we trust [electronic resource] : the story of Western intelligence / Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones.
Jeffreys-Jones, Rhodri.
2013
JF1525.I6 J44 2013eb
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Title In spies we trust [electronic resource] : the story of Western intelligence / Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones.
Author Jeffreys-Jones, Rhodri.
ISBN 9780191651700 electronic book
9780199580972
Imprint Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (ix, 297 p.) : ill.
Call Number JF1525.I6 J44 2013eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 327.124100904
Summary "In spies we trust reveals the full story of the Anglo-American intelligence relationship - ranging from the deceits of World War I to the mendacities of 9/11 - for the first time. Why did we ever start trusting spies? It all started a hundred years ago. First we put our faith in them to help win wars, then we turned against the bloodshed and expense, and asked our spies instead to deliver peace and security. By the end of World War II, Britain and America were cooperating effectively to that end. At its peak in the 1940s and 1950s, the 'special intelligence relationship' contributed to national and international security in what was an Anglo-American century. But from the 1960s this 'special relationship' went into decline. Britain weakened, American attitudes changed, and the fall of the Soviet Union dissolved the fear that bound London and Washington together. A series of intelligence scandals along the way further eroded public confidence. Yet even in these years, the US offered its old intelligence partner a vital gift: congressional attempts to oversee the CIA in the 1970s encouraged subsequent moves towards more open government in Britain and beyond. So which way do we look now? And what are the alternatives to the British-American intelligence relationship that held sway in the West for so much of the twentieth century? Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones shows that there are a number--the most promising of which, astonishingly, remain largely unknown to the Anglophone world."--Publisher's website.
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The separate origins of American and British intelligence
Great war origins of the Anglo-American intelligence partnership
Implications of the Zimmermann telegram
The special intelligence relationship in the Second World War
CIA: the new model agency
Surviving mistrust: Cold War intelligence episodes
Vietnam, Guyana, Ramparts: trust in decline
An American gift: government in the sunshine
The distant cousin: America goes its own way
Europol
The quest for European intelligence
Beyond the old west.

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