ABSTRACT
For too long the role of strategic intelligence in world affairs has stood in the shadows of traditional research on international relations.1 What a pity that it takes events like Pearl Harbor in 1941, the domestic spy scandals of 1975 (Operations Chaos and COINTELPRO), the terrorist attacks of 9/11, and the faulty estimates on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) in 2002 to underscore the importance of this subject. At last, though, the public – and perhaps even hide-bound IR theorists – seem ready to acknowledge the need to understand the hidden side of foreign and security policy.
