Covert and Overt: Recollecting and Connecting Intelligence Service and Information Science

Reference Type Book
Year of Publication
2005
Author
Language
English
Number of Pages
250 pp.
Publisher
Published for the American Society for Information Science and Technology by Information Today in cooperation with Scarecrow Press, Inc,
City
Medford, NJ
Region
Chronological Period
ISBN
9781573872348
Annotation

Contents: 

  • Intelligence work and the information professions / Robert S. Taylor 
  • Spies of the airwaves / Norman Horrocks 
  • Intelligence work and information science : two men in a boat / David Batty 
  • The intelligence game : seeing is believing? / Robert Lee Chartrand 
  • Applications of information science to U.S. naval intelligence and narcotics intelligence, 1974-1992 / Emil Levine 
  • A life in the information trade / Charles T. Meadow 
  • Information management in MI5 before the age of the computer / Alistair Black and Rodney Brunt 
  • Some aspects of indexing in British intelligence, 1939-1945 / Rodney Brunt 
  • Intelligence agencies, librarians, and information scientists / Colin Burke 
  • Historical note on information science in wartime : pioneer documentation activities in World War II / Pamela Spence Richards 
  • Technology for open source government information and business intelligence / George L. Marling 
  • Knowledge transfer : information science shapes intelligence in the cold war era / Lee S. Strickland 
  • The information science and intelligence literature : an overview / Robert V. Williams 
  • Defining what information science is or should be : a survey and review of a half-century of published pronouncements / Ben-Ami Lipetz 
  • Wanted : a definition of "intelligence" / Michael Warner 
  • Evidence and inference in foreign intelligence / Maurice H. Hellner 
  • The zoo and the jungle : a comparison of the information practices of intelligence analysts and scientists / Harold Wooster.
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