ABSTRACT
This book started with the proposition that the field of intelligence lacked any coherent, rigorous or systematic ethical review. In other words, professional, state intelligence has yet to develop an ethical framework that offers a means of determining if and when the intelligence collection is ethically justified. The introduction to this book argued that this is unacceptable. Intelligence can claim no a priori entitlement to be excluded from the realm of ethics, and as such requires an ethical framework specifically designed for intelligence that outlines if and when its activities are justified.
