Bungert / Heitmann / Wala Secret Intelligence in the Twentieth Century

Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-1-135-76133-2
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 226 Seiten

Reihe: Studies in Intelligence

This work investigates the connection between intelligence history, domestic policy, military history and foreign relations in a time of increasing bureaucratization of the modern state. The issues of globalization of foreign relations and the development of modern communication are also discussed.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bungert, Heike

Heitmann, Jan G.

Wala, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Nationale und Internationale Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Military and Civil Intelligence Services in Germany from World War 1 to the End of the Weimar Republic 2. Unresolved Issues of World War 2: The records still closed and the open records not used 3. Ethnic Germans as an Instrument of German Intelligence Services in the USA, 1933-45 4. Pioneering Research and Analysis: The R&A branch of the Office of Strategic Services and its legacy 5. The Role of Covert Operations in US Cold War Foreign Policy 6. The WRINGER Project: German ex-POWs as intelligence sources on the Soviet Union 7. US Intelligence, COCOM and the Trade War during the Cold War, 1947-55: The French problem 8. "A New Apparatus is Established in the Eastern Zone": The foundation of the East German State Security Service 9. US Intelligence and the GDR: The early years 10. The CIA's Berlin Operations Base and the Summer of 1953 11. The Early History of the Gehlen Organization and its Influence on the Development of a National Security System in the Federal Republic of Germany 12. The KGB and Germany: Some thoughts by a participant in the events 13. Canada and the Intelligence Revolution