Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Part 1 Secrecy and Liberal Society -- 1 Profiles in Intelligence: An Interview with Michael Herman -- 2 The Rush to Transparency: Releasing Wartime Codebreaking Secrets -- 3 GCHQ De-unionisation -- 4 Intelligence and Ethical Foreign Policy -- PART 2 The Cold War -- 5 Intelligence as Threats and Reassurance -- 6 What Difference Did It Make? -- 7 The Intelligence War: Reflections on Sigint -- 8 National Requirements -- 9 Manual Morse and the Intelligence Gold Standard -- 10 Teufelsberg -- PART 3 Organisation and Reform -- 11 1945 Organisation -- 12 Post-Cold War Issues and Opportunities -- 13 Evidence to Butler -- 14 Joint Intelligence and Butler -- 15 Butler Reviewed -- PART 4 Personalities in British Intelligence -- 16 Recruitment in 1945 and 'Peculiar Personal Characteristics' -- 17 Up from the Country: Cabinet Office Impressions 1972-5 -- 18 The Joint Intelligence Committee 1972-5 -- 19 GCHQ Directors -- 20 Harry Burke and Able Archer -- 21 A Special London Contribution -- Index
Summary
Showcases Michael Herman's critical reflections from his thirty-five years of intelligence experience to examine the past and present of British intelligence
