Intelligence Cooperation Meets International Studies Theory: Explaining Canadian Operations in Castro's Cuba

Munton, Don

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“…In Washington, various liaison services also provided information, including from their embassies in Havana. Gauging the accuracy of the intelligence from sources in Cuba was a formidable challenge. Many fleeing Cubans wanted an American invasion.…”

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The ‘Incredible Wrongness’ of NikitaKhrushchev: TheCIAand theCuban Missile Crisis

Scott¹

2015

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The role of the CIA in the Cuban Missile Crisis was of crucial importance to events and decisions. This article explores and evaluates the activities of the CIA in the crisis. It examines how intelligence‐gathering and analysis were conducted and how assessments and information were provided to decision‐makers. The study of the crisis illuminates many aspects of intelligence. On some of these there remain debates. The significance of CIA covert action against Cuba prior to October 1962, for example, is explored. Another important focus is the mistaken assessment of the US intelligence community that the Soviets were not going to deploy nuclear missiles in Cuba. The nature and significance of this conclusion is considered, along with the views of the Director of Central Intelligence, John McCone, who contrary to his analysts, believed Khrushchev would deploy nuclear missiles. The view that the CIA played a successful part in monitoring the Soviet military build‐up after the discovery of medium‐range ballistic missiles is analysed. The lack of success in identifying Soviet tactical nuclear weapons is also considered. The article draws upon an extensive corpus of scholarship on the crisis, as well as declassified material and reflections of former officials. Research into the crisis extends to Soviet and other decision‐makers and thus helps facilitate a more genuinely international intelligence history of the Cold War. The article proffers a reflective and nuanced assessment that underlines the achievements as well as the shortcomings of the CIA at this most crucial moment in the Cold War.

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The ‘Incredible Wrongness’ of NikitaKhrushchev: TheCIAand theCuban Missile Crisis

Scott¹

2015

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“…A few works move past rational choice theory to consider how intelligence cooperation fits with the various theories dominant in international relations or liberal political philosophy (Aldrich 2004;Svendsen 2008;Munton 2009). This is the smallest category, although it must be said that the fuzzy border between rational choice theory and international relations realism makes classification of these works ambiguous.…”

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Everyday Diplomacy: UKUSA Intelligence Cooperation and Geopolitical Assemblages

Dittmer

2015

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

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“…A brief survey of recent literature on intelligence cooperation reveals a predominance of case studies (e.g. Munton, 2009;Hussain, 2009;Matei, 2009;Dumbrell, 2009) and practitioners' analyses of challenges to or innovations within intelligence cooperation (e.g. Lefebvre, 2003;Strachan-Morris, 2009;Lander, 2004).…”

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Quantifying intelligence cooperation: The United States International Intelligence Behavior (USIIB) dataset

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2011

Journal of Peace Research

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This report describes the creation of the United States International Intelligence Behavior dataset (USIIB). The USIIB represents the first collection of event data specifically intended for exploring in a quantifiable manner the international intelligence cooperation behaviors of the United States. A total of 293,615 events are recorded in the USIIB, covering the years 2000-09. The report first provides a detailed description of the steps involved in building such a dataset, including the development of search terms, the use of a machine coding program (TABARI -Text Analysis by Augmenting Replacement Instructions) to extract data from wire news releases, and the extension of an existing coding scheme (CAMEO) to include intelligence behaviors. Following a discussion of issues related to the reliability and validity of event datasets in general and the USIIB in particular, the report then includes suggestions and examples for how the data in the current USIIB dataset may be used in order to add to our understandings of patterns and anomalies in international intelligence cooperation behavior. As a specific example, it offers results from an empirical test exploring variation in intelligence cooperation behaviors among democracies and non-democracies, asking specifically whether the United States has been more likely in the early 21st century to cooperate on intelligence matters with democratic states, and finding this not to have been the case. Finally, it aims to provide a guide for others who would like to extend this dataset to explore intelligence cooperation activity of other countries or regions.

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Intelligence Cooperation Meets International Studies Theory: Explaining Canadian Operations in Castro's Cuba

Cited by 11 publications

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The ‘Incredible Wrongness’ of NikitaKhrushchev: TheCIAand theCuban Missile Crisis

The ‘Incredible Wrongness’ of NikitaKhrushchev: TheCIAand theCuban Missile Crisis

Everyday Diplomacy: UKUSA Intelligence Cooperation and Geopolitical Assemblages

Quantifying intelligence cooperation: The United States International Intelligence Behavior (USIIB) dataset

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