Moran, Christopher R. (2011) The pursuit of Intelligence history : methods, sources, and trajectories in the United Kingdom. Studies in Intelligence, Vol.55 (No.2). pp. 676-700. ISSN 1942-8510.

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Abstract

This article is an overview of the history of the academic study of intelligence in the United Kingdom since 1945, a time marked by three distinctive periods of historiography. Each, labeled here as Absence, Emergence, and Efflorescence, contained unique themes and approaches to intelligence history as it has been practiced in Britain.

Clarity has come to intelligence history much like the restoration of an aged fresco in which hidden details are gradually revealed through repeated cleansings until a full-bodied picture emerges. Attempts to establish the history of British intelligence have ranged greatly in style and quality, from the lurid works served up by the media and by the purveyors of conspiracy theory (appropriately described by Nicholas Hiley as “lightweight meals that sit so heavily on the stomach”),1 to the tomes, written by official historians and born of patient work in archives and historical scholarship.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Divisions:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies
Journal or Publication Title:	Studies in Intelligence
Publisher:	U.S. Central Intelligence Agency * Center for the Study of Intelligence
ISSN:	1942-8510
Official Date:	2011
Dates:	Date Event 2011 UNSPECIFIED
Volume:	Vol.55
Number:	No.2
Page Range:	pp. 676-700
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Access rights to Published version:	Restricted or Subscription Access

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