ABSTRACT
The active research community on intelligence in Cambridge has slowly become smaller since Professor Christopher Andrew formal retirement in 2011, but even so the University remains an active hub of important intelligence research. For centuries, the University of Cambridge has never been far from the world of intelligence. Yet although Cambridge’s history with the intelligence world has been long, few if any figures in that history realized their place in a much larger and longer Cambridge story. Christopher Andrew’s ground-breaking publications in the 1980s helped to launch intelligence studies as an academic field. The group provided a communication bridge between academics and the intelligence agencies over the growing mass of British intelligence documentation making its way into the public domain. Intelligence has had a centuries-long history amongst the narrow streets and the grand old colleges of Cambridge. This small, remarkable university town has been home to a very long intelligence story—one that has featured spies, codebreakers, traitors, and historians.
