ABSTRACT

The study of intelligence, as an academic field, continues to grow, as does the public’s fascination with it. Yet, lots of empirical gaps remain, often for good and necessary reasons. The layers of secrecy have historically ensured that the intelligence community is insulated and denied access (intentionally or otherwise) to the world of academia and all the research resources and findings present within it. We would naturally expect that there would be very limited prospects for research impact in this field of government activity (particularly for those who study it) and yet, as shown by the analysis of this chapter, the opposite is true.