Intelligence Agencies, Technology and Knowledge Production (eBook, PDF)

Data Processing and Information Transfer in Secret Services during the Cold War
Redaktion: Bergien, Rüdiger; Goschler, Constantin; Gerstenberger, Debora

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume examines intelligence services since 1945 in their role as knowledge producers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000543179
• Artikelnr.: 63273931

Autorenporträt

Rüdiger Bergien is a Professor of Intelligence History at the Federal University for Applied Administrative Sciences, Germany. Debora Gerstenberger is Assistant Professor for Latin American History at the Institute for Latin American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. Constantin Goschler is Professor for Contemporary History at the Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany, and is currently directing a research group on 'Security, Democracy and Transparency'.

Inhaltsangabe

The Knowledge of Intelligence Agencies in the Cold War World: An Introduction Rüdiger Bergien, Debora Gerstenberger, and Constantin Goschler 1. Compromised Cooperation: Researchers on Eastern Europe in the Service of Intelligence in West Germany after 1945 Thomas Wolf 2. Dogma versus Progress: KGB's Scientific and Technological Surveillance (In-) Capacities from the 1960s to the 1980s Evgenia Lezina 3. Mission Impossible: The Difficult Consolidation of Strategic Intelligence in the United States During the Cold War Andreas Lutsch 4. American Security Databases and the Production of Space, 1967-1974: Enhancing or Obscuring Patterns? Jens Wegener 5. Knowledge Transfer and Technopolitics: The CIA, the West German Intelligence Service, and the Digitization of Information Processing in the 1960s Rüdiger Bergien 6. Information Technology is Power: The Intelligence Service's Grab for the Digital Computing Sector in Brazil Marcelo Vianna 7. The Computer as Document Shredder: Video Terminals and the Dawn of a New Era of Knowledge Production in Brazil's Serviço Nacional de Informações (SNI) Debora Gerstenberger 8. Turkish Intelligence, Surveillance and the Secrets of the Cold War: Blocked Modernization? Egemen Bezci 9. Solid Modernity: Data Storage and Information Circuits in the Communist Security Police in Poland Franciszek Dabrowski 10. Perceptions of Digital Computers at the German Domestic Intelligence Service: Eliminating the Human Factor? Christopher Kirchberg 11. Global Intelligence Academies: Information Schools during the Civil-Military Dictatorship in Brazil Samantha Viz Quadrat 12. Intelligence Public Relations: The Annual Reports on the Protection of the Constitution in West Germany Marcel Schmeer Conclusion Rüdiger Bergien, Debora Gerstenberger, and Constantin Goschler