Profiles in intelligence: an interview with Michael Herman

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Notes

1. F. H. Hinsley, with E. E. Thomas, C. F. G. Ransom & R. C. Knight, British Intelligence in the Second World War: Its Influence on Strategy and Operations. Volume 1 (London: HMSO 1979).

2. For example, Christopher Andrew and David Dilks (eds.) The Missing Dimension: Governments and Intelligence Communities in the Twentieth Century (London: Macmillan 1984); Christopher Andrew, Secret Service: The Making of the British Intelligence Community (London: William Heinemann 1985). In addition, Christopher Andrew was a founding editor of this journal, which first appeared in 1986.

3. R.V. Jones, Most Secret War: British Scientific Intelligence 1939–1945 (London: Hamish Hamilton 1978).

4. Roberta Wohlstetter, Pearl Harbor: Warning and Surprise (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press 1962).

5. For example, Loch K. Johnson, A Season of Inquiry: The Senate Intelligence Investigation (Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press 1985).

6. Admiral Sir James Eberle, GCMG (1927–), formerly Commander-in-Chief Fleet and Commander-in-Chief Home Command.

7. Lord Roper of Thorney Island (1935–2016) was a Labour Party MP from 1970 who defected to the newly-formed Social Democratic Party in 1981, serving as a SDP MP and the party’s Chief Whip until 1983. After leaving the House of Commons he took up a senior staff role at the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) in 1984. He was created a life peer in 2000.

8. Sir Reginald Hibbert (1922–2002) served in the Special Operations Executive during the Second World War before joining the Foreign Service where he held numerous posts, culminating in his appointment as Ambassador to France. After retiring, in 1982 he became director of the Ditchley Park Foundation. His notable lecture on ‘Intelligence and Policy’, given in Oxford in 1989, was published in Vol.5 No.1 (January 1990) of this journal, pp.110–28.

9. Rob Johnson, Analytic Culture in the US Intelligence Community (Washington, DC: Center for the Study of Intelligence 2005).

10. Michael Herman and Gwilym Hughes (eds.) Intelligence in the Cold War: What Difference did it Make? (Abingdon: Routledge 2013).

11. Russian Interests, Intentions and Capabilities, JIC(48)9(O)Final, 23 July 1948, London: India Office Library and Records, L/ WS/1/1173, (now in the British Library), first paragraph of Annex I, the summary.

12. Len Scott, ‘Intelligence and the Risk of Nuclear War: Able Archer-83 Revisited’, Intelligence and National Security, 26/6 (2011) pp.759–77. Reprinted in Herman & Hughes (eds.), Intelligence in the Cold War.

13. See, Michael S. Goodman, ‘Avoiding Surprise: The Nicoll Report and Intelligence Analysis’, in Robert Dover and Michael S. Goodman (eds.) Learning from the Secret Past: Cases in British Intelligence History (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press 2011) pp.265–92).

14. Lord Butler, Review of Intelligence on Weapons of Mass Destruction (HC 898; London: The Stationery Office 2004).