The Official History of the Joint Intelligence Committee: Volume I: From the Approach of the Second World War to the Suez Crisis - Paperback

by Michael S. Goodman (Author)

For more than half a century, the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) has been a central player in the secret machinery of the British Government, acting as broker between the intelligence agencies and the policy-makers. This first volume of the Official History of the Joint Intelligence Committee draws upon a range of released and classified papers to produce the first, authoritative account of the way in which intelligence has been used to inform UK policy.

Author Biography

Michael S. Goodman is Reader in Intelligence and International Affairs in the Department of War Studies, King's College London. He is the author or editor of five previous books, including the Routledge Companion to Intelligence Studies (co-editor, 2013).