Abstract
This article recounts the experience of a professional historian in being given the keys to the kingdom: access to the classified vaults of Britain’s Joint Intelligence Committee. This article includes some of the problems in having access, but complying with the sensitivities around official accounts, difficulties in writing a global history, or trying to make the work of a committee interesting and accessible, and of trying to determine the impact of intelligence on policy.
Recommended Citation
Goodman, Michael.
2018.
"Writing the Official History of the Joint Intelligence Committee."
Secrecy and Society
2(1).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.31979/2377-6188.2018.020109
https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/secrecyandsociety/vol2/iss1/9
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