About the Book

The CIA, the KGB, MI5, Mossad, Boss, Savak, Dina - the names evoke the murky side of history after the Second World War. But the Cold War has long gone. Now the ‘War on Terror’ is upon us - what are the secret services doing these days?

Global Intelligence:

• Explains how the war on terrorism provides a wholly new context for the murky world of secret services and intelligence agencies to operate in;

• Describes in detail how ultra-modern new technologies have vastly increased their power to spy abroad and eavesdrop at home;

• Tells us the changing priorities and working methods of the CIA and other US agencies, the FSB (successor to the KGB) in Russia, Western Europe‘s secret services, Mossad in Israel, and the diverse security services in developing countries.

This up-to-date account raises important issues, including the new roles the secret services have found for themselves as they target ‘rogue states‘, ‘the war on drugs‘, and ‘terrorists‘. Most important of all, its authors explore the unsolved contradiction between the world of these secretive and unaccountable agencies operating on the fringes of the law, and the requirements of a free and democratic society. There is, they conclude, ‘no easy walk to freedom‘.

Contents

Intelligence after 9.11 - A New Internationalism?
1. Terrorism: Gobalisation‘s Siamese twin?
2. Technologies of Surveillance
3. US Intelligence: back to the future?
4. The EU - new purpose, old methods?
5. Russia: from KGB to FSB and back again?
6. Israel: the Living Security Dilemma?
7. Intelligence in the South: the growth of the virtual state
8. Conclusion

About the Authors

Paul Todd read philosophy at the University of East Anglia and has a doctorate from the University of Middlesex. A historian of the Cold War specialising in Middle East issues, he has done research at the US National Security Archives and was editor of The Gulf Report monthly at the Gulf Centre for Strategic Studies in London. He is the author of World Power and Global Reach: US Security Policy in Southwest Asia.

Jonathan Bloch was born in Cape Town, South Africa. He studied law at the University of Cape Town and the London School of Economics. He was politically active in South Africa and remains involved in Southern African causes. He is now a London-based businessman and is a Liberal Democrat councillor in the London Borough of Haringey.. He co-authored British Intelligence and Covert Action and KGB/CIA, and was also a co-author of three chapters in the collection Dirty Work 2: The CIA in Africa.