Intelligence Requirements at the Crossroads: The 1948 French Plan de Renseignement, Intelligence Requirements and the Role of Intelligence History
| Autor: | Michael Seibold |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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History
Government Intelligence analysis media_common.quotation_subject Intelligence cycle (target-centric approach) Empire Intelligence cycle management Foreign policy Law Political science Political Science and International Relations Diplomatic history Intelligence analysis management media_common |
| Zdroj: | Intelligence and National Security. 30:723-744 |
| ISSN: | 1743-9019 0268-4527 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/02684527.2014.969587 |
| Popis: | Very often intelligence history concentrates on the knowledge produced by a country's intelligence service and its impact on national decision-making, or – in the case of intelligence failures – the lack thereof. Using a previously unexplored document from the archives of the French Foreign Ministry, this research note proposes another contribution of intelligence history to diplomatic history: By analysing national intelligence requirements – the ‘top secret diaries’ of governments – intelligence history can provide a window into the minds of decision-makers. The 1948 French plan de renseignement illustrates this case. Written shortly after the Cold War started in earnest in 1947, the plan de renseignement shows a French government deeply worried about the danger of global conflict and of internal upheaval in its empire, but also a government not fully committed to the western cause and particularly sceptical about American intentions. French foreign policy was at a crossroads in 1947/48 and, quite sensi... |
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