Ebook: Spying on the World: The Declassified Documents of the Joint Intelligence Committee, 1936-2013

1. Introduction: The Rise of the Joint Intelligence Committee -- 2. Origins of the Joint Intelligence Committee -- 3. World War II and the role of intelligence in strategic planning -- 4. A post-war Intelligence machinery -- 5. Origins of the Soviet Threat -- 6. Sigint targeting -- 7. The Berlin blockade -- 8. Chinese intervention in the Korean War -- 9. Estimating Soviet capabilities -- 10. Counterinsurgency -- 11. The Suez Crisis -- 12. The Cuban Missile Crisis -- 13. Vietnam -- 14. The Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, 1968 -- 15. The rise of international terrorism in the Middle East -- 16. Northern Ireland: direct rule -- 17. The Falklands War -- 18. Changing requirements at the end of the Cold War -- 19. War in Iraq: weapons of mass destruction -- 20. War in Iraq: aftermath -- 21. The Joint Intelligence Committee and the National Security Council -- 22. The Syrian Civil War -- 23. Through the looking glass: illusions of openness and the study of British Intelligence -- Appendix: chairmen of the Joint Intelligence Committee -- Document sources.;This book reveals the declassified papers of the JIC, shining a light on the workings of Whitehalls secret world and the vital, previously unknown, role played by intelligence in pivotal events across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.