HIS343Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Giorgio Agamben, Cryptanalysis, Okhrana
Document Summary
As such need for a theory boundaries and limits: distinction between information and intelligence. Strategic intelligence is the knowledge upon which a nation"s foreign relations, in war and peace, must rest. sherman kent. Part of bureaucracy/organizational structure: higher quality: clear, timely, reliable, valid, adequate and doesn"t exist; Problems: goal setting, control, innovation, intelligence problems; competition: sometimes intelligence failures rooted in the structural problems of organizations; not always solved but reduced; Part of policy: relevant to governments forming policy in defining national security. Terms: official covers, walk ins, tradecraft, iminit, sigint, comint (communications between people, or radio), telint (eavesdropping on missile communications, eliint, osint (public source), humint (agents, informants, walk ins) Official covers: intelligence officers posing as diplomats. Tradecraft: activities of intelligence officers and analysts; All this technical intelligence gathering as traffic; however, cannot tell intention; as such need for analysis; Causes for intelligence failures: subordinating intelligence to policy; mirror imaging (judging unfamiliar situations on the bases of familiar situations)
