ABSTRACT
A remarkable consensus has emerged. There have of course been differences of approach and differences of opinion. That was not only inevitable in a Conference of this kind, but, desirable. In the course of the conference there were a few people who either dissented from that view or who had some different nuances and differences of approach. In this chapter, the author disagrees with the view which was put forward by one participant in this conference, that the question of international terrorism and the relations between the Soviet Union and the West are irrelevant. Intelligence is, after all, only the obtaining, collation, and dissemination of information. It seems to the author that the emasculation of some of the intelligence services of the West, as a result of a systematic campaign of denigration, has done nothing but reduce and undermine not only the resolve but the capacity of the West to meet the various threats which it faces.
