Chapter 7 RECONCEIVING REALISM: INTELLIGENCE HISTORIANS AND THE FACT/FICTION DICHOTOMY

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. THE EDITORS vii
4. THE CONTRIBUTORS viii
5. FIGURES xiii
6. PREFACE xv
7. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS xix
8. Introduction INTELLIGENCE STUDIES NOW AND THEN 1
9. PART I AMERICAN INTELLIGENCE HISTORIOGRAPHY
10. Chapter 1 CIA HISTORY AS A COLD WAR BATTLEGROUND: THE FORGOTTEN FIRST WAVE OF AGENCY NARRATIVES 19
11. Chapter 2 THE CULTURE OF FUNDING CULTURE: THE CIA AND THE CONGRESS FOR CULTURAL FREEDOM 47
12. Chapter 3 ‘REAL SUBSTANCE, NOT JUST SYMBOLISM’? THE CIA AND THE REPRESENTATION OF COVERT OPERATIONS IN THE FOREIGN RELATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES SERIES 65
13. Chapter 4 BONUM EX MALO: THE VALUE OF LEGACY OF ASHES IN TEACHING CIA HISTORY 90
14. Chapter 5 NARRATING COVERT ACTION: THE CIA, HISTORIOGRAPHY AND THE COLD WAR 111
15. Chapter 6 FBI HISTORIOGRAPHY: FROM LEADER TO ORGANISATION 129
16. Chapter 7 RECONCEIVING REALISM: INTELLIGENCE HISTORIANS AND THE FACT/FICTION DICHOTOMY 146
17. Chapter 8 THE REALITY IS STRANGER THAN FICTION: ANGLO–AMERICAN INTELLIGENCE COOPERATION FROM WORLD WAR II THROUGH THE COLD WAR 172
18. PART II BRITISH INTELLIGENCE HISTORIOGRAPHY
19. Chapter 9 A PLAIN TALE OF PUNDITS, PLAYERS AND PROFESSIONALS: THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF THE GREAT GAME 183
20. Chapter 10 NO CLOAKS, NO DAGGERS: THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF BRITISH MILITARY INTELLIGENCE 202
21. Chapter 11 THE STUDY OF INTERROGATION: A FOCUS ON TORTURE, BUT WHAT ABOUT INTELLIGENCE? 222
22. Chapter 12 WHITEHALL, INTELLIGENCE AND OFFICIAL HISTORY: EDITING SOE IN FRANCE 236
23. Chapter 13 A TALE OF TORTURE? ALEXANDER SCOTLAND, THE LONDON CAGE AND POST-WAR BRITISH SECRECY 251
24. Chapter 14 1968 – ‘A YEAR TO REMEMBER’ FOR THE STUDY OF BRITISH INTELLIGENCE? 263
25. Chapter 15 THEIR TRADE IS TREACHERY: A RETROSPECTIVE 281
26. Chapter 16 INTELLIGENCE AND ‘OFFICIAL HISTORY’ 289
27. INDEX 304