{"product_id":"intelligence-agencies-technology-and-knowledge-production-9780367706418","title":"Intelligence Agencies Technology and Knowledge","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume examines intelligence services since 1945 in their role as knowledge producers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntelligence agencies are producers and providers of arcane information. However, little is known about the social, cultural and material dimensions of their knowledge production, processing and distribution. This volume starts from the assumption that during the Cold War, these core activities of information services underwent decisive changes, of which scientization and computerisation are essential. With a focus on the emerging alliances between intelligence agencies, science and (computer) technology, the chapters empirically explore these transformations and are characterised by innovative combinations of intelligence history with theoretical considerations from the history of science and technology and the history of knowledge.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the same time, the book challenges the bipolarity of Cold War history in general and of intelligence history in particular in favour of comparativ\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Knowledge of Intelligence Agencies in the Cold War World: An Introduction \u003ci\u003eRüdiger Bergien, Debora Gerstenberger, and Constantin Goschler \u003c\/i\u003e1. Compromised Cooperation: Researchers on Eastern Europe in the Service of Intelligence in West Germany after 1945 \u003ci\u003eThomas Wolf \u003c\/i\u003e2. Dogma versus Progress: KGB’s Scientific and Technological Surveillance (In-) Capacities from the 1960s to the 1980s \u003ci\u003eEvgenia Lezina \u003c\/i\u003e3. Mission Impossible: The Difficult Consolidation of Strategic Intelligence in the United States During the Cold War \u003ci\u003eAndreas Lutsch\u003c\/i\u003e 4. American Security Databases and the Production of Space, 1967–1974: Enhancing or Obscuring Patterns? \u003ci\u003eJens Wegener \u003c\/i\u003e5. Knowledge Transfer and Technopolitics: The CIA, the West German Intelligence Service, and the Digitization of Information Processing in the 1960s \u003ci\u003eRüdiger Bergien \u003c\/i\u003e6. Information Technology is Power: The Intelligence Service’s Grab for the Digital Computing Sector in Brazil \u003ci\u003eMarcelo Vianna \u003c\/i\u003e7. The Computer as Document Shredder: Video Terminals and the Dawn of a New Era of Knowledge Production in Brazil’s \u003ci\u003eServiço Nacional de Informações\u003c\/i\u003e (SNI) \u003ci\u003eDebora Gerstenberger \u003c\/i\u003e8. Turkish Intelligence, Surveillance and the Secrets of the Cold War: Blocked Modernization? \u003ci\u003eEgemen Bezci \u003c\/i\u003e9. Solid Modernity: Data Storage and Information Circuits in the Communist Security Police in Poland \u003ci\u003eFranciszek Dabrowski \u003c\/i\u003e10. Perceptions of Digital Computers at the German Domestic Intelligence Service: Eliminating the Human Factor? \u003ci\u003eChristopher Kirchberg \u003c\/i\u003e11. Global Intelligence Academies: Information Schools during the Civil-Military Dictatorship in Brazil \u003ci\u003eSamantha Viz Quadrat \u003c\/i\u003e12. Intelligence Public Relations: The Annual Reports on the Protection of the Constitution in West Germany \u003ci\u003eMarcel Schmeer \u003c\/i\u003eConclusion \u003ci\u003eRüdiger Bergien, Debora Gerstenberger, and Constantin Goschler\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018034282839,"sku":"9780367706418","price":39.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780367706418.jpg?v=1750775425","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/intelligence-agencies-technology-and-knowledge-production-9780367706418","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}