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The Triumph of HUMINT: The GDR Foreign Intelligence Services’ Collection of Defense Intelligence, 1951–1989
Paul Maddrell
Published online: 11 Jun 2024
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Soviet Espionage in Sweden: The Vasilii Sidorenko Case of 1942
Johan Matz
Published online: 07 Jun 2024
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The Narrative Power of Russian Foreign Intelligence
Noah Wicken
Published online: 07 Jun 2024
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Introduction to the Special Section

Introduction
The Psychology of Intelligence
Sabrina Magris & Stephan Lau
Published online: 07 Jun 2024
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Everybody Needs Help Sometimes: Facilitators of Soviet Defectors’ Publications
Kevin P. Riehle
Published online: 28 May 2024
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Comrade Kryuchkov’s “War Scare” (1983), or the Bureaucratic Origins of the “Able Archer” War-Scare Thesis
Douglas Selvage
Published online: 08 May 2024
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Book Review
Keystone to American Intelligence
Mark Stout: World War I and the Foundations of American Intelligence University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, 2023, 392 p., $44.95 (hardcover), $33.99 (eBook)
Francis Xavier Bergmeister
Published online: 08 May 2024
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Russia’s Declining Satellite Reconnaissance Capabilities and Its Implications for Security and International Stability
Elena Grossfeld
Published online: 08 May 2024
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Indian Espionage: Success, Failure, and Tradition
Dheeraj Paramesha Chaya: India’s Intelligence Culture and Strategic Surprises: Spying for South Block, Routledge, London, 2023, 287 p., $180.00 (hardcover).
Joel Brenner
Published online: 25 Apr 2024
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My Lovable Fascist
David Foy:Loyalty First: The Life and Times of Charles A. Willoughby, MacArthur's Chief Intelligence Officer Casemate, Havertown, PA, 2023, 288 p., $13.09 (hardcover).
Angela Gendron
Published online: 19 Apr 2024
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Prospects for United Nations Strategic Intelligence
Patrick Peprah Obuobi
Published online: 11 Apr 2024
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Book Review

Book Review
Untold Tale of Africa’s Intelligence
Ryan Shaffer (Ed.): The Handbook of African Intelligence Cultures Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, London, 2023, 745 p., US$140.00 (hardback), $133.00 (Kindle).
Marianne Taflinger
Published online: 11 Apr 2024
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How Officials Use Intelligence Analysis: A Situational Theory
J. Eli Margolis
Published online: 11 Apr 2024
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Correction

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Correction
Published online: 04 Mar 2024
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Essay

Essay
Valuing Diversity in the U.S. Intelligence Community
Mia Fischer, Hamilton Bean & Agnes E. Venema
Published online: 04 Mar 2024
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Book Review

Book Review
The Kitzbühel Casanova
Nicholas Shakespeare: Ian Fleming: The Complete Man Harvill Secker, London, 2024, 821 p., $27.35 (hardback).
Nigel West
Published online: 28 Feb 2024
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Current Intelligence and Assessments: Information Flows and the Tension between Quality and Speed
Mikael Weissmann & Niklas Nilsson
Published online: 01 Feb 2024
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An Ethical Framework for Economic Intelligence
Ross W. Bellaby
Published online: 01 Feb 2024
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Intelligence Theory and Democratic Governance: An Epistemological Approach from Political Science
Bernabé Aldeguer Cerdá & Joan Antón-Mellón
Published online: 01 Feb 2024
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Book Review
The Damoclean Sword
Marian Leighton:The Scourge of Terrorism from the Middle Ages to the 21st Century, Universal Publishers, Irvine, CA, and Boca Raton, FL, 2023, 395 p., $49.95 (paperback).
Angela Gendron
Published online: 16 Jan 2024
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Letter to the Editor

Military Intelligence as a Dual Professional Identity: A Response to “Military–Intelligence Relations: Explaining the Oxymoron”
Jack Duffield
Published online: 03 Jan 2024
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African American Intelligence Contributions during the American Civil War
David A. Welker
Published online: 03 Jan 2024
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Old and New Moscow Rules
Jack Devine:Spymaster’s Prism: The Fight against Russian Aggression, Potomac Books: An Imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NE, 2021, 265 p., $26.95 (paperback)
Carl Anthony Wege
Published online: 11 Dec 2023
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Soviet and Russian Diplomatic Expulsions: How Many and Why?
Kevin P. Riehle
Published online: 06 Dec 2023
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Book Review

Book Review
A Career Tracking North Korean Nukes
Richard Phillip Lawless: Hunting Nukes: A Fifty-Year Pursuit of Atomic Bomb Builders and Mischief Makers Mountain Lake Press, Mountain Lake Park, MD, 2023 495 p., $29.95 (hardcover)
Joseph W. Wippl
Published online: 06 Dec 2023
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Half-Century of Spying on Citizens
Russell Campbell
Published online: 28 Nov 2023
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Reconsidering the Science and Semantics of Intelligence Analysis
Joshua Yaphe
Published online: 16 Nov 2023
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Another Piece to Cuba’s Mole Puzzle
Peter Lapp and Kelly Kennedy:Queen of Cuba: An FBI Agent’s Insider Account of the Spy Who Evaded Detection for 17 Years Post Hill Press, Brentwood, TN, 2023, 254 p., $28.99 (hardcover)
Nigel West
Published online: 16 Nov 2023
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Ethnic Minorities in the Soviet Illegal Intelligence: A Case of a KGB Illegal in Post-WWII Japan
Grigorij Serscikov
Published online: 16 Nov 2023
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Reassessment of Counterintelligence in National Security: The Case of Kosovo
Bahri Gashi & Ngadhnjim Brovina
Published online: 10 Nov 2023
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Book Review

Book Review
Arming Uncle Joe: Secret Intelligence in the Service of a First Sea Lord
David Kenyon:Arctic Convoys, Bletchley Park, and the War for the Seas Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 320 p., $24.00 (hardback)
David King
Published online: 08 Nov 2023
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“Encore Merci de Votre Collaboration et Bravo!” Albert Van Buylaere, a Belgian Intelligence Agent during World War II
Robin Liefferinckx
Published online: 07 Nov 2023
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Book Review

Book Review
Flood of Erroneous Details on Soviet Intelligence
Boris Volodarsky: The Birth of the Soviet Secret Police: Lenin and History’s Greatest Heist 1917–1927 Frontline Books, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, 2023, 393 p., £25.00 (hardbound).
Kevin Riehle
Published online: 30 Oct 2023
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Perkins Operations: Tactics Used in Undercover Interactions
Simon Oleszkiewicz, Pär Anders Granhag & Timothy J. Luke
Published online: 10 Oct 2023
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Stronger Together: Intelligence in the English-Speaking West Indies
Ryan Shaffer
Published online: 19 Sep 2023
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Book Review

Book Review
Ukrainian Nationalist Movement and Soviet Counterinsurgency Operations
Volodymyr Viatrovych and Lubomyr Luciuk (eds.): Enemy Archives: Soviet Counterinsurgency Operations and the Ukrainian Nationalist Movement McGill-Queen’s University Press, Montreal and Kingston, Canada, 2023, 988 p., $135.00 CAD (hardcover).
Olga Bertelsen
Published online: 11 Sep 2023
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Book Review

Book Review
Shadows and Light: Asian Intelligence
Ryan Shaffer (ed.): The Handbook of Asian Intelligence Cultures Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, London, 2022, 458 p., $99.99 (hardback); $133.00 (Kindle).
Marianne Taflinger
Published online: 11 Sep 2023
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Book Review
Intelligence Oversight across the Anglosphere
Christian Leuprecht and Hayley McNorton: Intelligence as Democratic Statecraft: Accountability and Government of Civil–Military Relations across the Five Eyes Security Community—the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2021, 272 p., $105.00 (Hardcover).
James J. Wirtz
Published online: 01 Sep 2023
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Forty Years of Soviet Spying in NATO: A Preliminary Study
William T. Murphy
Published online: 29 Aug 2023
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Can Private Sector Intelligence Benefit from U.S. Intelligence Community Analytic Standards?
Dorothea Gioe, Jeremey Parkhurst & David V. Gioe
Published online: 14 Aug 2023
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Perspective

Moscow, 1977: My Encounters with the KGB
Benjamin B. Fischer
Published online: 31 Jul 2023
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Book Review

Book Review
Mischief Afloat
Nigel West
Published online: 20 Jul 2023
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Book Review
Revisiting a Decade’s Worth of Material
Kevin Riehle
Published online: 17 Jul 2023
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Book Review
Improving Standard Text
M. Patrick Hendrix and James S. Major:Communicating with Intelligence: Writing and Briefing for National Security Third edition. Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, MD, 2023, 293 p., $150.00 (hardback), $72.00 (paperback), $61.00 (Kindle).
Carol E.B. Choksy
Published online: 30 Jun 2023
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Book Review

Book Review
Complex Intelligence Designs
Andrew Long:Secrets of the Cold War: Espionage and Intelligence Operations—From Both Sides of the Iron Curtain Pen and Sword Books, Havertown, PA, 2022, 252 p., $21.99.
Olga Bertelsen
Published online: 26 Jun 2023
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Book Review
Artificial Account of Intelligence–Technology Nexus
Kristie Macrakis:Nothing Is Beyond Our Reach: America’s Techno-Spy Empire, Georgetown University Press, Washington, DC, 2023, 259 p., $29.95 (hardcover)
Joel Brenner
Published online: 26 Jun 2023
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Book Review
Anatomy of Operation Pimlico
Ben Macintyre:The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War Crown, New York, 2019, 384 p., $13.56.
Avner Barnea
Published online: 26 Jun 2023
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Book Review
Caught Red-Handed
Nigel West
Published online: 13 Jun 2023
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Book Reviews

Book Review
Dutch Courage
Norman Ridley: The Venlo Sting: MI6’s Deadly Fiasco Casemate Publishers, 2022, 207 pp., $27.26 (hardcover).
Nigel West
Published online: 18 May 2023
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Caught by Surprise
Christoph O. Meyer, Eva Michaels, Nikki Ikani, Aviva Guttmann, and Michael S. Goodman (eds.):Estimative Intelligence in European Foreign Policymaking: Learning Lessons from an Era of Surprise Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2022, 351 p., £85.00 (hardback).
Sebastiaan Rietjens
Published online: 24 Feb 2023
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