| Description |
1 online resource (492 pages) |
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Government Official History Series |
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Government official history series.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; Foreword; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Part One Origins, 1936-1939; 1 Why Joint Intelligence?; The Need for Central Intelligence; The First Tentative Steps to Joint Intelligence; The Creation of the Joint Intelligence Sub-Committee; From Birth to War; Foreign Office Involvement; The Situation Report Centre; 2 Building a Foundation; The Spanish Civil War; Management of the Intelligence Community; Preparing for the Inevitable; Planning for War; Part Two War, 1939-1945 |
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3 The Onset of War: 1939-1940The outbreak of war; Assessments during the Phoney War; Cometh the hour ... ; A German Perspective; 4 Stabilisation: 1941-1942; Creation of a Secretariat; Germany Turns Eastward; Relations with the United States; War in the Far East; Intelligence for Planning; Planning for Intelligence; 5 Preparing for the End, 1943-1945; Allies at last; Japan or Germany?; Crossing the Channel; Hitler's Secret Weapon; The Defeat of Germany; Victory in the East; End of an Era; A Joint Intelligence War?; Part Three New Threats, 1945-1957; 6 A New Identity, 1945-1957; Crystal Gazing |
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Committees Beget CommitteesExternal Examination: The 1947 Evill Report; Life on the Committee; The Committee in Action (i) -- Meetings and Membership; The Committee in Action (ii) -- Product; The Committee in Action (iii) -- Process; An Umbrella Organisation; An Augmented Committee; 7 Creating a World-Wide Intelligence Network; Dining with the Americans; Regional Outposts; Spreading the Gospel; 8 Changing Enemies: The Rise of the Soviet Union, 1945-1947; Whither the Soviet Union?; Consensus on the Soviet Union; Crisis in Persia; Shifting Sands |
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9 The Emergence and Stabilisation of the Cold War, 1947-1957Improving intelligence; Estimating the Inestimable; Watching the Bear; Surprise Surprise; The Demise of Uncle Joe; Revolution in Hungary; Pondering the Imponderable; 10 Studying the Soviet War Machine; Capturing Germans; An Atomic Conundrum; Policing the State -- Nuclear Secrets; Nuclear Stockpiling; Bomber Gap, What Bomber Gap?; Ballistic Missiles; Soviet Chemical, Biological and Conventional Military Capabilities; The Scale and Nature of the Threat; 11 War in the Far East: Part I -- Conflict in China and Korea; A storm brewing |
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A storm across the AtlanticBattleground Korea; The PRC Emboldened; An Asian Cold War; 12 War in the Far East: Part II -- Problems in the Colonies; The Japanese Vacuum; Emergency in Malaya; The Threat to Hong Kong; Indochina; An Impasse; 13 Adventures in the Middle East: Part I -- The Rise of Nationalism; Formulation of a Middle East policy; Trouble in Palestine; The Rise of Nationalist Iran; A Middle Eastern Cold War; 14 Adventures in the Middle East: Part II -- The Suez Crisis; Miscalculating Nasser; The Soviet Union makes a move; Toppling Nasser; Whither Intervention? |
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Man in the Middle -- Patrick Dean and the Suez Crisis |
| Summary |
Volume One of the Official History of the Joint Intelligence Committee draws upon a range of released and classified papers to produce the first, authoritative account of the way in which intelligence was used to inform policy. For almost 80 years the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) has been a central player in the secret machinery of the British Government, providing a co-ordinated intelligence service to policy makers, drawing upon the work of the intelligence agencies and Whitehall departments. Since its creation, reports from the JIC have contributed to almost every key |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781134715770 |
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1134715773 |
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