By Jan Goldman

Intelligence execs are staff of the govt operating in a company that a few may ponder unethical—the company of spying. This publication appears to be like on the dilemmas that exist while one is requested to accomplish a civil carrier that's in clash with what that particular believes to be "ethical." this can be the 1st publication to provide the simplest essays, articles, and speeches on ethics and intelligence that display the complicated ethical dilemmas in intelligence assortment, research, and operations that confront executive staff. a few are lately declassified and not earlier than released, and all are written through authors whose backgrounds are as different as their insights, together with Robert M. Gates, former Director of the critical Intelligence supplier; John P. Langan, the Joseph Cardinal Bernardin Professor of Catholic Social suggestion on the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown college; and Loch ok. Johnson, Regents Professor of Political technological know-how on the college of Georgia and recipient of the Owens Award for contributions to the knowledge of U.S. intelligence actions. To the intelligence expert, it is a precious choice of literature for development a moral code that's not depending on any particular corporation, division, or kingdom. Managers, supervisors, and staff of all degrees may still learn this publication. growing the basis for the examine of ethics and intelligence by way of filling within the hole among battle and philosophy, Ethics of Spying makes the assertion that the intelligence specialist has ethics.

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TORTURE (AND REPRISALS) The German treatment of captured agents raises the question of how far a captor is entitled to go in forcing a prisoner to disclose information, and in discouraging intelligence activities in occupied territory by reprisals on the civilian population. The German treatment of prisoners of war was, with some exceptions, correct, but their attitude towards civilians was harsh and, often, brutal. They followed the doctrine of Clausewitz, that terror was justified as a way to shorten the war.

P 286. 6. Harry Rositzke in ‘‘America’s Secret Operations: A Perspective,’’ Foreign Affairs, January 1975, pp. 334–51, has presented a sophisticated view of the remaining need for clandestine human intelligence and counterintelligence collection. , writing from a consumer’s viewpoint (as I do) has laid, I think, the right stress on the predominant need for technological methods today. ’’ Foreign Affairs, April 1976, pp. 482–95. 7. See Harry Rositzke, CIA’s Secret Operations, New York: Reader’s Digest Press, 1977, Chapter 13.

Collectors with substantive knowledge of their data targets should be authorized to disseminate ‘‘trading materials’’ to their foreign counterparts in exchange for hard-to-get data and technical material. This will be a delicate business. Maladroit handling of such negotiations could result in even tighter controls over information by the host country. Needless to say, negotiations could not be conducted in the target country without risking the expulsion of third-country nationals. New expertise in content evaluation both of the materials desired by the United States and the data to be used as trading currency will have to be developed.

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