Intelligence was a major part of the Cold War, waged by both
sides with an almost warlike intensity. Yet the question 'What
difference did it all make?' remains unanswered. Did it help to
contain the Cold War, or fuel it and keep it going? Did it make it
hotter or colder? Did these large intelligence bureaucracies tell
truth to power, or give their governments what they expected to
hear?
These questions have not previously been addressed
systematically, and seven writers tackle them here on Cold War
aspects that include intelligence as warning, threat assessment,
assessing military balances, Third World activities, and providing
reassurance. Their conclusions are as relevant to understanding
what governments can expect from their big, secret organizations
today as they are to those of historians analysing the Cold War
motivations of East and West. This book is valuable not only for
intelligence, international relations and Cold War specialists but
also for all those concerned with intelligence's modern
cost-effectiveness and accountability.
This book was published as a special issue of "Intelligence and
National Security."
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