Intelligence services: "Ames affair" Russian intelligence service rejects Americans' demands
In: Current Digest of the Post-Soviet Press, Band 46, S. 25-26
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In: Current Digest of the Post-Soviet Press, Band 46, S. 25-26
In: Studies in intelligence collection and intelligence analysis 1
In: Jane's Intelligence review: the magazine of IHS Jane's Military and Security Assessments Intelligence centre, Band 6, Heft 9, S. 404-409
ISSN: 1350-6226
World Affairs Online
In: Intelligence and national security, Band 23, Heft 4, S. 552-576
ISSN: 0268-4527
In: International journal of intelligence and counterintelligence, Band 12, Heft 4, S. 484-503
ISSN: 0885-0607
Describes development of the security and intelligence system and trends in government oversight. Australian Security and Intelligence Organization (ASIO), the Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS), Defense Signals Directorate (DSD), Defense Intelligence Organization (DIO), Office of National Assessments (ONA), National Intelligence Collection and Requirements Committee (NICRC), and the National Intelligence Committee (NIC).
In: Jane's Intelligence review: the magazine of IHS Jane's Military and Security Assessments Intelligence centre, Band 15, Heft 2, S. 50-51
ISSN: 1350-6226
In: SIPRI yearbook: armaments, disarmament and international security
ISSN: 0953-0282, 0579-5508, 0347-2205
Following the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks on the USA and the invasion of Iraq, much attention has focused on the professional adequacy of the Western world's intelligence services, the risk of their role and findings being distorted by political measures, and alleged human rights abuses. This has led to public and parliamentary special investigations into claims of failings or misconduct by intelligence services in a number of countries-examples include the 9/11 Commission in the USA; the Hutton Inquiry in the United Kingdom; the Arar Commission in Canada; the German special parliamentary inquest; and the Dutch Parliament's request for an investigation into the alleged torture practices of the Dutch Military Intelligence and Security Service in Iraq. Concerns about the external accountability of intelligence services are clearly high on the public policy agenda. Concern about democratic oversight of the intelligence services is, however, not just a phenomenon of the past five years. Comparative research on intelligence accountability reveals that, over the past 30 years, several states have moved towards greater accountability. Although executive oversight of intelligence is well established, the introduction of parliamentary and independent oversight mechanisms is comparatively recent, having come into existence only between the 1970s and 1990s in different states. The states compared are all democracies whose legislatures have adopted laws that put the functioning of their intelligence services on a legal footing and to provide for oversight of intelligence. They include Argentina, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, South Africa, the UK and the USA. Intelligence oversight systems in these countries are confronted with several recurring challenges and problems: (1) balancing the legitimate need for transparency with the operational need for secrecy of operations, sources and methods; (2) the danger of politicization and executive misuse of the intelligence services; (3) the challenge of establishing democratic oversight of intelligence services in post-authoritarian and post-communist states; and (4) the challenge for national oversight institutions of keeping track of international intelligence cooperation. The extent to which the relatively young oversight systems in existence are capable of fully addressing these challenges in the post-11 September climate remains to be seen. Adapted from the source document.
In: International affairs: a Russian journal of world politics, diplomacy and international relations, S. 72-75
ISSN: 0130-9641
World Affairs Online
In: International journal of intelligence and counterintelligence, Band 14, Heft 4, S. 485-502
ISSN: 0885-0607
In: Jane's Intelligence review: the magazine of IHS Jane's Military and Security Assessments Intelligence centre, Band 16, Heft 11, S. 42-43
ISSN: 1350-6226
World Affairs Online
In: Jane's Intelligence review: the magazine of IHS Jane's Military and Security Assessments Intelligence centre, Band 16, Heft 11, S. 42-43
ISSN: 1350-6226
In: International journal of intelligence and counterintelligence, Band 4, S. 91-100
ISSN: 0885-0607
Structural characteristics, interactions of the security organs, and significance for regional politics.