INDEX

Adye, Sir John, ref1

al-Assad, Bashar, ref1 , ref2

al-Qaeda, ref1

Assessments Staff, ref1 , ref2

Berlin Airlift, ref1

Berlin Blockade, ref1 , ref2

Blair, Tony, ref1 , ref2 , ref3 , ref4 , ref5 , ref6 , ref7 , ref8 , ref9 , ref10 , ref11

Bloody Sunday, ref1

Brook, Norman, ref1

Brown, Gordon, ref1 , ref2 , ref3 , ref4 , ref5

Bulgaria, ref1 , ref2

Burma, ref1

Butler, Michael, ref1

Cameron, David, ref1 , ref2 , ref3 , ref4

Capel-Dunn, Denis, ref1

carrier pigeons, ref1

Cavendish-Bentinck, Victor, ref1 , ref2 , ref3

Central Intelligence Bureau, ref1

Central Interpretation Unit, ref1

‘Central Machinery for Co-Ordination of Intelligence’ report, 1936, ref1

China, ref1

economy, ref1

implications of intervention in Korea, ref1

possible courses of action in North Korea, ref1

reaction to war in Vietnam, ref1

relationship with Soviet Union, ref1

Chinese Communist Army, ref1

‘Chinese Communist Intention and Capabilities 1950/51’ report, ref1

Churchill, Winston, ref1 , ref2

CIA, ref1

Colonial Office, ref1

‘Colonial Security’ report, ref1

Combined Services Detailed Interrogation Centre, ref1

Cominform, ref1

‘Consequences of Deeper United States Involvement in Vietnam or United States Withdrawal from South Vietnam’ report, ref1

Cooper, Chester, ref1

Council for Mutual Economic Aid, ref1

Cradock, Percy, ref1 , ref2 , ref3

Current Intelligence Groups, ref1 , ref2 , ref3

Czechoslovakia, ref1 , ref2 , ref3

reform programme, ref1

Dill, John, ref1 , ref2

Dubcek, Alexander, ref1

East Germany, ref1 , ref2

Eden, Anthony, ref1 , ref2

‘Egyptian Nationalisation of the Suez Canal Company’ report, ref1

‘Elint’, ref1

Finland, ref1

Formosa, ref1

France, reaction to invasion of north Africa during World War II, ref1

Ground Forces in Indo-China, ref1

Freedman, Lawrence, ref1 , ref2

Freedom of Information Act, ref1

‘functional topics’, ref1

Galtieri, Leopoldo, ref1

GCHQ see Government Communications Headquarters

General Intelligence Requirements Committee, ref1

Germany, reaction to invasion of north Africa during World War II, ref1

reunification, ref1

significance during Cold War, ref1

Soviet policy on Germany, ref1

Gorbachev, Mikhail, ref1

Government Code and Cypher School, ref1

Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), ref1 , ref2 , ref3 , ref4 , ref5 , ref6 , ref7 , ref8

Hague, William, ref1

Hankey, Maurice, ref1 , ref2 , ref3

Heath, Edward, ref1

Herman, Michael, ref1 , ref2 , ref3

Hooper, Robin, ref1

Hungary, ref1 , ref2

Hussein, Saddam, ref1 , ref2 , ref3 , ref4 , ref5 , ref6 , ref7 , ref8

Hutton Report, ref1

‘Indications of Russian Preparedness for War’ 1948 report, ref1

intelligence, definition of, ref1

Intelligence and Security Committee, ref1 , ref2

Annual Report 1995, ref1

intelligence failures, ref1 , ref2 , ref3 , ref4 , ref5 , ref6

‘Intelligence Machine’ report, ref1

Intelligence Section (Operations), ref1

Intelligence Services Act 1994, ref1

Inter-Service Security Board, ref1

Inter-Service Topographical Department, ref1

Iraq War, ref1 , ref2

Iranian aims, ref1

post-war planning, ref1 , ref2

Shia reactions, ref1

‘Iraqi Use of Chemical and Biological Weapons – Possible Scenarios’ report, ref1

IRA, ref1 , ref2 , ref3

Israel, ref1

Italy, reaction to invasion of north Africa during World War II, ref1

Joint Intelligence Committee

ability to adapt to developing situations, ref1

assessments of Soviet capabilities, ref1

balanced tone of forecasts, ref1

elevation to full committee status, ref1

end of the Cold War, ref1

decision to prioritise Soviet activity, ref1

discrepancies between JIC and COS statements, ref1

implications of creation of NSC, ref1

intelligence failures, ref1 , ref2 , ref3 , ref4 , ref5 , ref6

media coverage, ref1

post-war planning, ref1

prediction of Cuban Missile Crisis, ref1

purpose, ref1

relationship with NSC, ref1

relationship with government policy, ref1 , ref2

relationship with policy-makers, ref1

role in World War ref1 , ref2

warnings over Vietnam, ref1

Joint Intelligence Staff, ref1 , ref2

Joint Technical Intelligence Committee, ref1

Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeyevich, ref1 , ref2

Korean War, ref1

Latin America Current Intelligence Group, ref1 , ref2

Lever, Paul, ref1

Lewis, Julian, ref1

Lobban, Iain, ref1

Local Intelligence Committees, ref1

Macao, ref1

Malaya, ref1

Major, John, ref1 , ref2

Marshall Aid, ref1

McArthur, Douglas, ref1

‘Measures to Prevent the Russians Obtaining Strategic Surprise’ report, ref1

MI5, ref1 , ref2 , ref3

MI6, ref1 , ref2 , ref3 , ref4 , ref5

Miliband, Ed, ref1

mirror imaging, ref1 , ref2 , ref3

Nasser, Gamal, ref1

National Security Council, ref1 , ref2

North Korea, ref1

Northern Ireland, ref1

Catholics and Direct Rule, ref1

civil service, ref1

mood of Protestant community, ref1

Norway, German invasion of, ref1

and Soviet Union, ref1

Obama, Barack, ref1

Omand, David, ref1

open source intelligence, ref1 , ref2

Operation Torch, ref1 , ref2

JIC report on, ref1

Permanent Secretaries Committee on the Intelligence Services, ref1

Photographic Reconnaissance Committee, ref1

Poland, ref1 , ref2 , ref3

political intelligence, ref1

Political Warfare Executive, ref1

Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, ref1 , ref2

‘Possible Soviet Response to a US Decision to Bomb or Invade Cuba’ report, ref1

Postal and Telegraph Censorship Department, ref1

‘Probably Reactions to the Introduction of Direct Rule in Northern Ireland’ report, ref1

Radio Security Services, ref1

Reilly, Patrick, ref1

Rimington, Stella, ref1 , ref2

Rimmer-Martin review, ref1 , ref2

Rumania, ref1 , ref2

Russia see Soviet Union

‘Russian preparations for war’ report, ref1

Russian psychology, ref1

‘Russia’s Strategic Interests and Intentions from the Point of View of Her Security’ report, ref1

Scarlett, John, ref1 , ref2 , ref3 , ref4

security intelligence, ref1

Short, Clare, ref1 , ref2

Siam, ref1

‘Sigint Intelligence Requirements – 1948’ report, ref1

Signals Intelligence

South Korea, ref1

United Nations Forces in South Korea, ref1

‘Southern Iraq: What’s in Store?’ report, ref1

‘Soviet Grip on Eastern Europe’ report, ref1

‘Soviet Intentions and Capabilities 1949 and 1956/57’ report, ref1

‘Soviet Motives in Cuba’ report, ref1

Soviet Union, ref1

atomic weapons, ref1

attitudes to use of force, ref1

and Balkans, ref1

birthrate, ref1

Black Sea, ref1

buffer states, ref1

collaboration with UK and US, ref1

demilitarisation of Japan, ref1

disarmament of Germany, ref1

fall of, ref1

and Far East, ref1

and Finland, ref1

fuel and power supply, ref1

industrial capacity, ref1

and Middle East, ref1

military strength, ref1

nuclear offensive, ref1

nuclear sufficiency, ref1

and Poland, ref1

policy in Eastern Europe, ref1

post-war naval policy, ref1

raw materials, ref1

reaction to war in Vietnam, ref1

relationship with Egypt, ref1

scientific and technical developments in ‘weapons of mass destruction’, ref1

standard of living, ref1

Western frontier, ref1

and Western powers, ref1

Spain, reaction to invasion of north Africa during World War II, ref1

Special Operations Executive, ref1

Stalin, Joseph, ref1

Straw, Jack, ref1 , ref2

Suez Canal, ref1 , ref2

‘Supporting the National Security Council (NSC): The central national security and intelligence machinery’ report, ref1

Sweden, ref1

‘Syria: Reported Chemical Weapons Use’ report, ref1

Templer, Gerald, ref1

terrorism, ref1

Thatcher, Margaret, ref1 , ref2 , ref3 , ref4

Tibet, ref1

US Intelligence Community, ref1

Viet Cong, ref1 , ref2

Viet Minh, ref1

Waldegrave Initiative on Open Government, ref1

War Planning Committee, ref1

Warsaw Pact, ref1

Wilson, Harold, ref1 , ref2

WMD (weapons of mass destruction), ref1 , ref2

‘Working Party on Acts of Violence Against Civil Aircraft’ report, ref1

Wright, Patrick, ref1

‘Y’ Services, ref1

Yugoslavia, ref1 , ref2