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Aldrich, Richard J., Müller, Peter F., Ridd, David and Schmidt-Eenboom, Erich (2020) Operation Rubicon : sixty years of German-American success in signals intelligence. Intelligence and National Security, 35 (5). pp. 603-607. doi:10.1080/02684527.2020.1774849 ISSN 0268-4527.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/02684527.2020.1774849
Abstract
The story of Operation Rubicon provides a ‘missing link’ in the history signals intelligence. It connects the period of the Second World War, dominated by Bletchley Park and Arlington Hall, with the Snowden era. This special section examines signals intelligence in the latter decades of the twentieth century, arguing that the processes of covert interference that were used help us to understand sources and methods in our present times. It examines new material that has emerged in Europe that expands our comprehension of the intelligence co-operation between the United States, Germany, Switzerland and Sweden, focusing on the control of technology corporations, especially Crypto AG. It argues that, as a result of Operation Rubicon, all states with high-grade computing, even the Soviet Union, were probably secret beneficiaries of this process and derived substantial flow of intelligence as a result, mostly from the global south. However, the task of exploring the material generated by Operation Rubicon has only just begun, since most of the product remains classified.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Subjects: | Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA76 Electronic computers. Computer science. Computer software T Technology > TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Electronic surveillance, Electronic intelligence , Cyber intelligence (Computer security) | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Intelligence and National Security | ||||||
| Publisher: | Routledge | ||||||
| ISSN: | 0268-4527 | ||||||
| Official Date: | 4 June 2020 | ||||||
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| Volume: | 35 | ||||||
| Number: | 5 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 603-607 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.1080/02684527.2020.1774849 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | “This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Intelligence and National Security on 04/06/2020, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/02684527.2020.1774849 | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 28 May 2020 | ||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 4 December 2021 | ||||||
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