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Although the intelligence process discussed throughout this book is somewhat generic to any particular intelligence service, the specifics of key issues—such as internal versus external security functions, the relative safety of the state, the extent and nature of international relationships and interests—shape how the intelligence service functions and what its relationship is to policy makers. Some structures also reflect each nation’s distinctive national and political development. Skills and capabilities also vary from service to service. The key issue in assessing any intelligence service is the one that has pervaded this book: Does it provide timely, useful intelligence to the policy process?

FURTHER READINGS

Literature on foreign intelligence services is uneven at best. The works cited below emphasize the current status of these organizations, instead of offering historical treatments, although some of these have been cited as well. In addition, the Federation of American Scientists’ Web site, www.fas.org, contains useful information on all of the services discussed in this chapter and others.

Britain

“Cats’ Eyes in the Dark,” Economist, March 19-25, 2005, 32-34.

Cradock, Percy. Know Your Enemy: How the Joint Intelligence Committee Saw the World. London: John Murray, 2002.

Davies, Philip H. J. “Spin Versus Substance: Intelligence Reform in Britain after Iraq.” WeltTrends (summer 2006): 25-35.

Falkland Islands Review. Report of a Committee of Privy Counsellors [Franks Report]. London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1983. (Parliamentary paper Cmnd. 8787.)

Herman, Michael. “Intelligence and the Iraqi Threat: British Joint Intelligence after Butler.” RUSI (Royal United Services Institute) Journal (August 2004): 18-24.

Intelligence and Security Committee. Report into the London Terrorist Attacks on 7 July 2005. May 2006. (Available at www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/upload/assets/www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/publications/reports/intelligence/isc_7july_report.pdf.)

Glees, Anthony, and Philip H. J. Davies. “Intelligence, Iraq and the Limits of Legislative Accountability during Political Crisis.” lntelligence and National Security (October 2006): 848-883.

————. Spinning the Spies: Intelligence, Open Government and the Hutton Inquiry. London: The Social Affairs Unit. 2004.

Glees, Anthony, Philip H. J. Davies, and John N. L. Morrison. The Open Side of Secrery: Britain’s lntelligence and Serurity Committee. London: The Social Affairs Unit, 2006.

Masse, Todd. Donrestir Intelligence in the United Kingdom: Applicability of the MI-5 Model to the United States. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Research Service, May 19, 2003.

National Intelligence Machinery. London: Stationery Office, 2000.

Review of Intelligenee on Weapons of Mass Destruction: Report of a Committee Privy Counsellors [Butler Report]. London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, July 14, 2004.

Smith, Michael. New Cloak, Old Dagger: How Britain’s Spies Came in from the Cold. London: Gollancz, 1996.

———. The Spying Game: The Secret History of British Espionage. London: Politicos, 2003.

West, Nigel. “The UK’s Not Quite So Secret Service.” International Journal of Intelligenre and Counterintelligence 18 (spring 2005): 23-30.

Official Web sites:

www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk (British Cabinet Office Web site)

www.gchq.gov.uk (Government Communications Headquarters Web site)

www.intelligence.gov.uk (British Intelligence Community website)

www.mi5.gov.uk (M15 Web site)

www.mi6.gov.uk (M16 website)

www.securityservice.gov.uk (United Kingdom’s security agency)

China

Eftimiades, Nicholas. Chinese Intelligence Operations. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1994.

U.S.-China Economic Security Review Commission. 2007 Report to Congress. Washington, D.C.: June 1, 2007. (Available at www.uscc.gov/annual_report/2007/annual_report_full_07.pdf.) 320 pp.

U.S. House Select Committee on U.S. National Security and Military/Commercial Concerns with the People’s Republic of China [Cox Committee]. 3 vols.105th Cong., 2d sess., 1999.

France

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