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134899
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When the Soviet Union and the United States became potential enemies at the end of World War II increased U.S. resources were spent on trying to better understand the USSR's economy and society. As the Cold War escalated in the immediate post-war years new U.S. organizations were created to analyze the USSR. Studies have been conducted about U.S. government assessments of the USSR during the Cold War, for example regarding the Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) estimates of Soviet capabilities and intentions. 1 But the United States had already been trying to assess Soviet capabilities before the onset of the Cold War, and these efforts were of particular interest during World War II, when Soviet resources were being used against a common enemy: the Axis Powers.
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053651
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ID:
143767
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‘Official histories’ sound like, and often are, stuffy reads, not to mention being suspect for an establishment bias. This work by Michael S. Goodman, Reader in Intelligence and International Affairs in the Department of War Studies, King's College London, UK, suffers from neither malady. Once I turned to this book, Volume I of a longer history still underway, I set aside a good novel I was reading at the time. My interest was caught immediately by Dr. Goodman's felicitous writing style and his fascinating chronicle of the formative years of the Joint Intelligence Committee or ‘JIC’, the most important entity for intelligence analysis in the British government. Having read Dr. Goodman's first-rate earlier work, Spying on the Nuclear Bear,1 as well as several of this articles and book chapters, I had high expectations for this history and they were met. I was eager to read this official history for another reason, too: one of my all-time favorite intelligence books is Sir Percy Cradock's Know Your Enemy,2 a classic in style and substance and an excellent companion to this official history.
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ID:
080713
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059935
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