This volume examines the ethical issues generated by recent developments in intelligence collection and offers a comprehensive analysis of the key legal, moral and social questions thereby raised. Intelligence officers, whether gatherers, analysts or some combination thereof, are operating in a sea of social, political, scientific and technological change. This book examines the new challenges faced by the intelligence community as a result of these changes. It looks not only at how governments employ spies as a tool of state and how the ultimate outcomes are judged by their societies, but also at the mind-set of the spy. In so doing, this volume casts a rare light on an often ignored dimension of spying: the essential role of truth and how it is defined in an intelligence context. This book offers some insights into the workings of the intelligence community and aims to provide the first comprehensive and unifying analysis of the relevant moral, legal and social questions, with a view toward developing policy that may influence real-world decision making. The contributors analyse the ethics of spying across a broad canvas - historical, philosophical, moral and cultural - with chapters covering interrogation and torture, intelligence's relation to war, remote killing, cyber surveillance, responsibility and governance. In the wake of the phenomena of WikiLeaks and the Edward Snowden revelations, the intelligence community has entered an unprecedented period of broad public scrutiny and scepticism, making this volume a timely contribution. This book will be of much interest to students of ethics, intelligence studies, security studies, foreign policy and IR in general.

This volume examines the ethical issues generated by recent developments in intelligence collection and offers a comprehensive analysis of the key legal, moral and social questions thereby raised. Intelligence officers, whether gatherers, analysts or some combination thereof, are operating in a sea of social, political, scientific and technological change. This book examines the new challenges faced by the intelligence community as a result of these changes. It looks not only at how governments employ spies as a tool of state and how the ultimate outcomes are judged by their societies, but also at the mind-set of the spy. In so doing, this volume casts a rare light on an often ignored dimension of spying: the essential role of truth and how it is defined in an intelligence context. This book offers some insights into the workings of the intelligence community and aims to provide the first comprehensive and unifying analysis of the relevant moral, legal and social questions, with a view toward developing policy that may influence real-world decision making. The contributors analyse the ethics of spying across a broad canvas - historical, philosophical, moral and cultural - with chapters covering interrogation and torture, intelligence's relation to war, remote killing, cyber surveillance, responsibility and governance. In the wake of the phenomena of WikiLeaks and the Edward Snowden revelations, the intelligence community has entered an unprecedented period of broad public scrutiny and scepticism, making this volume a timely contribution. This book will be of much interest to students of ethics, intelligence studies, security studies, foreign policy and IR in general.

The author of this spy thriller, set in the Middle East in 1989-1990, is a former Intelligence Officer with the Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS) who served in the region. He was trained by MI6 in London and also served for ten years in the Asian region. The story deals with powerful political forces churning away in the Middle East at a time when Saddam Hussein in Iraq and Muammar Gadaffi in Libya were at the peak of their power. Gadaffi was the ogre of his day before Osama bin Laden came to prominence as the Al Qaida leader, with the ultimate tragic ending being the 9/11 attacks on the United States. The story deals with the nitty-gritty daily grind of intelligence work undercover in a region where so many conflicting forces are at play. In a common quest to pinpoint where reality lies at any given time allied intelligence services often cooperate to great effect and with camaraderie always to the fore. Despite this, however, things can often go spectacularly wrong and lives are lost, especially when treachery rears its ugly head inside one's own agency. This story shows how spies contend with these dangerous challenges. Most of the story takes place in Cairo, with other events occurring in Canberra, Washington and London.

The epic of this story exists about a young Jewish man call Benjamin that came face to face with the Antichrist, and saw his powers and his influences, and how that he deceived the whole world with his miracles. While living in the Apocalypse, Benjamin wrote down everything he had seen and heard; ( This is his story. )