On intelligence / John Hughes-Wilson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: part ONE Setting the Scene -- 1.A Little History -- PART TWO -- 2.On Intelligence -- PART THREE -- 3.How Intelligence Works: The Intelligence Cycle -- 4.On Direction: Ẁhat Exactly is Your Intelligence Requirement, Minister?' -- 5.On Collection -- part FOUR On HUMINT and Spies -- 6.Money: The Walker Family's Unusual Business -- 7.Ideology -- Cambridge's Famous Five -- Where Ideology and Ego Mix: Ana Montes -- The One Who Got Away: Melita Norwood -- 8.Compromise/Coercion -- John Vassall -- Clinton and Pollard -- Joe Cahill -- 9.Ego: Robert Hanssen -- 10.The Grievance: Penkovsky -- 11.HUMINT in action: Werther and the Battle of Kursk -- 12.On Interrogation -- 13.How Soviet HUMINT Changed the World -- part FIVE Technology Takes Over -- 14.On SIGINT -- 15.The Triumph of SIGINT: Midway -- 16.On Surveillance -- 17.On Technical Intelligence -- 18.Photographic Reconnaissance -- 19.Photographic Reconnaissance in Action -- The Cuban Missile Crisis --

Note continued: 20.On Satellites -- part SIX Information into Intelligence -- 21.On Collation: Vietnam and Tet Offensive -- 22.On Interpretation: Yom Kippur -- 23.Telling the User: Barbarossa and Stalin -- 24.On Dissemination: Pearl Harbor -- part SEVEN On Security -- 25.One Who Slipped Through The Net: Aldrich Hazen Ames -- 26.The Avner Smit Case -- 27.The Inadequate -- Bradley Manning -- 28.WikiLeaks and the Appalling Assange -- 29.Snowden, Security and the Surveillance State -- 30.Strategic Security: Insecure From Top to Bottom -- Singapore, 1941-2 -- part EIGHT On Deception -- 31.D-Day -- part NINE On Terror -- 32.On Terrorism -- 33.Islam and the War on Terror -- 34.D̀ie Greatest Atrocity -- 9/11 and the Attack on the World Trade Center -- part TEN On Intelligence Fiascos -- 35.The San Tay raid -- 36.Operation Eagle Claw -- 37.Blair's Dodgy Dossier, Iraq 2003 -- part ELEVEN New Horizons -- New Horrors? -- 38.On Cyberwar: When is a War Not a War? --

Note continued: part ELEVEN A Dangerous Trade -- 39.The Secret War for ELI NT -- 40.USS Pueblo -- 41.The Attack on the USS Liberty: With Friends Like This, Who Needs Enemies? -- 42.Disaster at Forward Operating Base Chapman -- Will It Ever Get Airy Better?.

"From the ancient Greek and Roman origins of human intelligence to its use in the Catholic church to Francis Walsingham's Elizabethan secret service to the birth of the surveillance state in today's digital hi-tech age, Colonel John Hughes-Wilson, professional military-intelligence officer and author of the bestselling Military Intelligence Blunders and Cover-Ups, gives an extraordinarily broad and wide-reaching perspective on intelligence, providing an up-to-date analysis of the importance of intelligence historically and in the recent past. Drawing upon a variety of sources, ranging from first-hand accounts to his own personal experience, Hughes-Wilson covers everything from undercover agent handling to photographic reconnaissance to today's much misunderstood cyber welfare. This book stands apart from the rest in that it tells the real inside story from a controversial insider's point of view, lifting the veil on what really happened behind the scenes in the intelligence world during some of the most well-known military events that have shaped our lives. On Intelligence is looking for hard answers - there are some tough lessons to be learned from both intelligence failures and successes - why is crucial intelligence so often ignored, misunderstood or spun by politicians and seasoned generals alike? One of the leading military experts of our time, Colonel John Hughes-Wilson skilfully weaves together an accessible and readable narrative on intelligence, accompanied by his unrivalled professional insight."--Publisher's website.