Spying on the World

The Declassified Documents of the Joint Intelligence Committee, 1936-2013

Richard J Aldrich author Michael S Goodman author Rory Cormac author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Edinburgh University Press

Published:19th May '14

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For more than half a century, the Joint Intelligence Committee or ‘JIC’ has been a central component of the British Government’s secret machinery. It represents the highest authority in the world of intelligence and acts as a broker between the spy and the policy-maker. From WWII to the War in Iraq, and from the Falklands to the IRA, it has been involved in almost every key foreign policy decision. This book reveals the declassified papers of the JIC, shining a light on the workings of Whitehall’s secret world and the vital, previously unknown, role played by intelligence in pivotal events across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

A unique and fascinating insight into the content and quality of the assessments that the JIC fed into British policy-making since the start of the Second World War to the 2013 Syrian crisis. -- Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman, King's College London

ISBN: 9780748678570

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 793g

456 pages