| ID | 147577 |
| Title Proper | Geoffrey Vickers and lessons from the Ministry of Economic Warfare for cold war defence intelligence |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Davies, Peter |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | Geoffrey Vickers is the forgotten man of British intelligence. As the UK’s economic intelligence supremo at the Ministry of Economic Warfare and the Foreign Office between 1941 and 1945, Vickers transformed the craft of economic intelligence in both strategic and operational spheres. In the policy arena he was the driving force behind the economic and industrial planning of civil administration of liberated Europe. Vickers was also an intelligence theorist of the first rank whose legacy survived in his holistic conception of economic intelligence, its centrality to decision-making in peace and war, and the scope and evolution of the Joint Intelligence Bureau and defence intelligence. |
| `In' analytical Note | Intelligence and National Security Vol. 31, No.6; Oct 2016: p. 810-828 |
| Journal Source | Intelligence and National Security Vol: 31 No 6 |
| Key Words | Defence Intelligence ; Cold War ; Geoffrey Vickers ; Ministry of Economic Warfare |