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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. The Facts of War: Cinematic Intelligence and the Office of Strategic Services -- 2. 'What is Past is Prologue': Hollywood's History of the OSS and the Establishment of the CIA -- 3. Quiet Americans: The CIA and Hollywood in the Early Cold War -- 4. The Death of the 'Big Lie' and the Emergence of Postmodern Incredulity in the Spy Cinema of the 1960s -- 5. Secrecy, Conspiracy, Cinema and the CIA in the 1970s -- Conclusion -- Select Filmography -- Bibliography -- Film and TV Index -- General Index

This essay proposes Gary Shteyngart's dystopian satire, Super Sad True Love Story, as an appropriate heuristic model for understanding surveillance and society in the twenty-first century. While George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four remains influential, many of his observations now seem anachronistic. Shteyngart, it is argued, offers a more appropriate vision for our world of decentralized digital "surveillant assemblages" that maintain a "control society" with little need for a Big Brother–like state. Unlike Orwell, who predicted the "proles" would be relatively free from surveillance, Shteyngart also emphasizes the disproportionate impact of surveillance on different sections of society. Finally, this essay turns to the thorny question of personal liberty and autonomy as a justification for the right to privacy and as a central theme within the dystopian genre. Many critics argue that dystopian literature is inherently reactionary because of its anti-utopianism and individualism. This essay, however, argues that the kind of autonomy that privacy activists and dystopian novelists most often wish to defend should be understood not as a self-sufficiency but as personhood that is socially embedded and politically engaged, and, crucially, a necessary but insufficient precondition for the resistance and refusal of digital mass surveillance.

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has long required its staff to sign a secrecy agreement pledging, subject to legal penalties, not to disclose classified information. The agreement includes a prepublication review, sanctioned by the U.S. Supreme Court, stipulating that employees must obtain permission before publishing anything that relates to their work or the CIA. This condition extends beyond the individual's service career into perpetuity. Administering this arrangement is an in-house body known as the Publications Review Board (PRB). The overriding purpose of the PRB is to prevent authors from inadvertently endangering national security through the public disclosure of classified information. To shed light on the genesis and evolution of the PRB, a transcribed interview with Dr. John Hollister Hedley is presented. Hedley is a 30-year veteran of U.S. intelligence and was chairman of the board of the PRB from 1996 to 1998. Adapted from the source document.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- THE EDITORS -- THE CONTRIBUTORS -- FIGURES -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- Introduction INTELLIGENCE STUDIES NOW AND THEN -- PART I AMERICAN INTELLIGENCE HISTORIOGRAPHY -- Chapter 1 CIA HISTORY AS A COLD WAR BATTLEGROUND: THE FORGOTTEN FIRST WAVE OF AGENCY NARRATIVES -- Chapter 2 THE CULTURE OF FUNDING CULTURE: THE CIA AND THE CONGRESS FOR CULTURAL FREEDOM -- Chapter 3 'REAL SUBSTANCE, NOT JUST SYMBOLISM'? THE CIA AND THE REPRESENTATION OF COVERT OPERATIONS IN THE FOREIGN RELATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES SERIES -- Chapter 4 BONUM EX MALO: THE VALUE OF LEGACY OF ASHES IN TEACHING CIA HISTORY -- Chapter 5 NARRATING COVERT ACTION: THE CIA, HISTORIOGRAPHY AND THE COLD WAR -- Chapter 6 FBI HISTORIOGRAPHY: FROM LEADER TO ORGANISATION -- Chapter 7 RECONCEIVING REALISM: INTELLIGENCE HISTORIANS AND THE FACT/FICTION DICHOTOMY -- Chapter 8 THE REALITY IS STRANGER THAN FICTION: ANGLO-AMERICAN INTELLIGENCE COOPERATION FROM WORLD WAR II THROUGH THE COLD WAR -- PART II BRITISH INTELLIGENCE HISTORIOGRAPHY -- Chapter 9 A PLAIN TALE OF PUNDITS, PLAYERS AND PROFESSIONALS: THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF THE GREAT GAME -- Chapter 10 NO CLOAKS, NO DAGGERS: THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF BRITISH MILITARY INTELLIGENCE -- Chapter 11 THE STUDY OF INTERROGATION: A FOCUS ON TORTURE, BUT WHAT ABOUT INTELLIGENCE? -- Chapter 12 WHITEHALL, INTELLIGENCE AND OFFICIAL HISTORY: EDITING SOE IN FRANCE -- Chapter 13 A TALE OF TORTURE? ALEXANDER SCOTLAND, THE LONDON CAGE AND POST-WAR BRITISH SECRECY -- Chapter 14 1968 - 'A YEAR TO REMEMBER' FOR THE STUDY OF BRITISH INTELLIGENCE? -- Chapter 15 THEIR TRADE IS TREACHERY: A RETROSPECTIVE -- Chapter 16 INTELLIGENCE AND 'OFFICIAL HISTORY' -- INDEX