State-private Networks and Intelligence Theory: From Cold War Liberalism to Neoconservatism

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This book examines the United States neoconservative movement, arguing that its support for the 2003 invasion of Iraq was rooted in an intelligence theory shaped by the policy struggles of the Cold War. The origins of neoconservative engagement with intelligence theory are traced to a tradition of labour anti-communism that emerged in the early 20th century and subsequently provided the Central Intelligence Agency with key allies in the state-private networks of the Cold War era. Reflecting on the break-up of Cold War liberalism and the challenge to state-private networks in the 1970s, the book maps the neoconservative response that influenced developments in United States intelligence policy, counterintelligence and covert action. With the labour roots of neoconservatism widely acknowledged but rarely systematically pursued, this new approach deploys the neoconservative literature of intelligence as evidence of a tradition rooted in the labour anti-communist self-image as allies rather than agents of the American state. This book will be of great interest to all students of intelligence studies, Cold War history, United States foreign policy and international relations. Cover Half Title Series Information Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction: Intelligence in the Transition From Cold War Liberalism to Neoconservatism The Cold War State-Private Network The Crisis of the State-Private Network and the Rise of Neoconservatism Intelligence Policy and the Neoconservative Transition The National Strategy Information Center and the Consortium for the Study of Intelligence Researching the Neoconservative Intelligence Paradigm Outline of the Book Notes References 1 Labour Anti-Communism Before the Cold War The AFL in the First World War The Early Years of American Communism Brandler’s International Communist Opposition (ICO) The Lovestoneites and the AFL The Lovestoneites and the Intellectuals: Corporatism and the ‘New Class’ From Dissident Communism to Anti-Fascism The Non-Communist Left in the Early Years of the Second World War The OSS and the Labour Movement Dubinsky’s War Within the War The Lovestoneite Afterlife: Transnational Labour Politics in the Second World War References 2 AFL-CIA: The Cold War State-Private Network Post-war Interlude (1945–47) Eur-X and Ben Mandel Whittaker Chambers and HUAC The Non-Communist Left at Home The World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) Lovestoneite Activities in Post-War France Lovestoneite Activities in Post-War Germany The International Rescue Committee (IRC) The Post-War Interlude in Perspective Containment 1947–1950 The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) The Italian Elections of 1948 Germany The International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) The Cultural Cold War From Containment to Rollback (1950–56) NSC-68 and the Committee On the Present Danger (CPD) The CIA in the Early 1950s McCarthyism and the Non-Communist Left Lovestone and Angleton (1955–1960) Angleton, Lovestone and Israel Britain in the 1950s The AFL-CIO Merger Hungary and the End of Rollback The Battle for the Third World Labour Anti-Communism in the Cold War State-Private Network References 3 The Break-Up of the Post-War Consensus The CIA and the AFL-CIO in the Kennedy Years Cold War Liberalism and Vietnam The Domestic Break-Up of Cold War Liberalism Nixon, Kissinger and the Rise of Détente The Committee to Maintain a Prudent Defense Policy The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks/Treaty (SALT) Debate The 1972 Presidential Election The Lovestone and Angleton Purges References 4 The Neoconservative Counteroffensive of the 1970s The Struggle Against Détente The Second Committee On the Present Danger (CPD) The American Security Council The National Strategy Information Center Team B The Carter Administration The Trigon Affair The International Dimension Britain Jerusalem Conference On International Terrorism The Intelligence Debate in the Late 1970s The Role of Roy Godson The Consortium for the Study of Intelligence The 1980 Reagan Campaign Conclusion References 5 The Consortium for the Study of Intelligence: A Paradigm for Political Warfare The CSI Colloquia Offensive Intelligence: the CSI Paradigm Covert Action Counterintelligence Clandestine Intelligence Collection Intelligence Analysis and Estimates Putting the Elements Together Notes References 6 Neoconservative Intelligence in the Reagan Era The CSI in the Early 1980s The 1980 Presidential Transition Intelligence Policy in the Early 1980s NED and the Rise of Overt Democracy Promotion Covert Action in the 1980s Poland Central America Intelligence Analysis in the Early 1980s The Rise of Counter-Deception Analysis Terrorism Analysis CIA Analysis and US Covert Action From the ‘Year of the Spy’ to the Rise of Gorbachev The Iran Contra Scandal The 1987 Colloquium On Intelligence Requirements for the 1990s The Neoconservatives Eclipsed References 7 From the End of the Cold War to the War On Terror Neoconservative Politics in the 1990s The Neoconservative Literature of Intelligence in the 1990s Silent Warfare Leo Strauss and the Neoconservative Theory of Intelligence Dirty Tricks Or Trump Cards The Working Group On Intelligence Reform Strategic Denial and Deception The Neoconservatives in the George W. Bush Administration Neoconservative Intelligence in Donald Rumsfeld’s Department of Defense The Neoconservative Intelligence Theorists After Iraq References Conclusion: Neoconservative Intelligence and the Revolt of the State-Private Network References Index