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1. 'No Wishful Thinking Allowed': Secret Service Committee and Intelligence Reform in Great Britain, 1919-23.

Author

Madeira, Victor

Subjects
*INTELLIGENCE service, *ESPIONAGE, *SECURITY classification (Government documents), *SUBVERSIVE activities, *NATIONAL security, *OFFICIAL secrets, *CLASSIFIED defense information, *GOVERNMENT publications, *GOVERNMENT information
Abstract

The May 2002 tranche of British Security Service files released to the Public Record Office included hitherto classified policy files containing documents on Secret Service Committee meetings held from 1919 to 1923. This body wrote an important yet relatively obscure chapter in British intelligence history: the post-First World War reorganization and retasking of British secret service machinery, the focus now being Soviet Russia. However, by encouraging the deliberate overstatement of the Bolshevik 'subversive' threat and then backing excessive measures to counter it, some British officials may have sown the seeds of government's later inability to detect a much graver peril to national security, that of Soviet espionage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2003
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2. Information Incognito.

Author

Block, Robert and Shatz, Amy

Subjects
*SECURITY classification (Government documents), *NATIONAL security, *SECURITY management, *ESPIONAGE, *INTELLIGENCE service, *CLASSIFIED defense information, *GOVERNMENT information, *OFFICIAL secrets
Abstract

Focuses on the climate in the United States of keeping sensitive security information (SSI) concealed for fear that terrorists may use the information. Comments from Melissa Rudinger of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association regarding the policy requiring pilots not to fly near nuclear reactors while the government keeps the location of reactors a secret; History of the concept of SSI, which originated in 1974 and has expanded under 2002's Homeland Security Act; Reference to another information classification called "Sensitive but Unclassified" (SBU); Other classifications of certain types of information, including FOUO (For Official Use Only) and UCNI (Unclassified Controlled Nuclear Information), indicating the government's desire to keep information that is not considered top-secret from being released to the public; Comments from Jack Johnson Jr., the former chief security officer for the Department of Homeland Security, regarding the kind of information that is vital to national security.

Published
2005

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