Intelligence and Espionage: Secrets and Spies provides a global introduction to the role of intelligence, a key, but sometimes controversial, aspect of ensuring national security. The book draws on past examples to explore the use and misuse of intelligence, examine why failures take place and addresses important ethical issues over its use.

Dr Daniel W.B. Lomas, Lecturer in International History at the University of Salford, UK, specialises in the post-1945 British intelligence community. His first book, Intelligence, Security and the Attlee Governments, 1945-51, was published in December 2016. He has written for History Today, BBC History Magazine and the History of Government Blog.

Dr Christopher J. Murphy is Lecturer in Intelligence Studies at the University of Salford, UK, researching the history of British intelligence in the Twentieth Century. Dr Murphy has published extensively on the history of the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) and intelligence historiography.

Chronology

Who's who

PART ONE: ANALYSIS

Introduction What is 'intelligence'? Theoretical approaches

Global intelligence: a brief history

Chapter 1 Gathering intelligence: spies and signals

Chapter 2 Intelligence analysis

Chapter 3 Intelligence and policy

Chapter 4 Intelligence liaison

Chapter 5 Catching spies: counterintelligence

Chapter 6 The 'hidden hand': covert action

Assessment

PART TWO: DOCUMENTS