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Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Naming the Enemy -- 1. Entering the 1930s-the DRC Report -- 2. Air Force and Aircraft Industry Intelligence, 1933-1936 -- 3. The Final Phases in Air Intelligence, 1936-1939 -- 4. Army and Armaments Industry Intelligence, 1933-1936 -- 5. The Final Phases in Army Intelligence, 1936-1939 -- 6. Naval Intelligence, 1933-1939 -- 7. The IIC and German Economic Preparations for War -- 8. Four Strategic Appreciations of War against Germany in 1939 -- Conclusion: The Four Phases of Intelligence -- APPENDIXES -- 1. The organization of British intelligence, 1933-1939 -- 2. Principal senior military officers, attachés, and intelligence staffs -- 3. The growth of the Luftwaffe, 1933-1939 -- 4. Squadron composition of the Luftwaffe -- 5. Luftwaffe first-line strength in August 1938 and September 1939 -- 6. British long-range predictions of Luftwaffe first-line strength by 1939 -- 7. IIC estimates of monthly German airframe production (1933-1939) and of complete aircraft produced (1939) -- 8. IIC estimates of monthly German aeroengine production, 1933-1939 -- 9. IIC estimates of employment in the German airframe industry -- 10. German army expansion, 1933-1939 -- 11. Comparative naval strengths of Britain and Germany, 1933 and 1939 -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y

Highlights of the volume include pioneering essays on the methodology of intelligence studies by Michael Fry and Miles Hochstein, and the future perils of the surveillance state by James Der Derian. Two leading authorities on the history of Soviet/Russian intelligence, Christopher Andrew and Oleg Gordievsky, contribute essays on the final days of the KGB. Also, the mythology surrounding the life of Second World War intelligence chief, Sir William Stephenson, The Man Called Intrepid', is penetrated in a persuasive revisionist account by Timothy Naftali. The collection is rounded off by a series

The historical evolution of a military intelligence system in Canada, like that of other Western powers, developed largely under the stimuli of the two world wars. Yet within this evolutionary framework, unique national characteristics emerged. One was the underlying Canadian concern with intelligence on a variety of threatened frontiers, especially after 1945 with the remote northern flank. Another unique feature of Canadian history was the response to the lessons of the Second World War. Rather than consolidating the wartime intelligence community to serve postwar needs, Canada restricted itself to subordinate partnership in an intelligence alliance with the United States and the United Kingdom, forfeited a strategic intelligence capability, and concentrated on domestic security problems. This article attempts to analyze these developments as a preliminary step toward the still unwritten history of the intelligence function in Canada.