Ethics of Spying: A Reader for the Intelligence Professional

by Jan Goldman (Editor)

Overview

The first volume introduced readers to ethics in intelligence operations. Published when the U.S. was conducting operations in the post-9/11 era, this book represents the first collection of articles to seriously study ethics for and about intelligence professionals. The second volume established the codes of conduct that professionals in the private and public sectors would employ that could be separate from those of their private lives.

Ethics of Spying: A Reader for the Intelligence Professional, Volume 3 combines the best articles from the first two volumes. It’s reorganized into 5 parts, and it contains new articles that expand and explain further the meaning and dichotomy of a working professional in the intelligence community and the national security and civil liberties they are entrusted with safeguarding. New articles include Ethics of Human Intelligence Operations; Tension and Strategy: : Ethics Phobia; Tension and Strategy: Sources and Bypassing Strategies; Just Intelligence Theory; Ethics, Intelligence, and Preemptive and Preventive Actions; Speak No Evil; Using Private Corporations to Conduct Intelligence Activities for National Security Purposes; and Intelligence Research and Scholarship

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781538178300
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	11/29/2023
Series:	Security and Professional Intelligence Education Series , #3
Pages:	512
Product dimensions:	6.23(w) x 9.34(h) x 1.31(d)

About the Author

Jan Goldman is a researcher and educator for over 40 years focusing on intelligence studies. He is currently Professor of Intelligence and Security Studies at The Citadel, Military College of South Carolina. He has taught at the National Intelligence University, CIA University, and the FBI Academy at Quantico, Virginia. He is the editor-in-chief of the highly respected International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence;the founding editor for professional textbooks – Security Professionals Intelligence Education Series (S.P.I.E.S); a member of several academic, research and publishing advisory boards; co-founder of the non-profit International Intelligence Ethics Association; and the founding editor of the International Journal of Intelligence Ethics.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part 1: Understanding This Oxymoron 1

1 Ethics and Intelligence

J. E. Drexel Godfrey

2 Is Ethical Intelligence a Contradiction in Terms?

Jennifer Morgan Jones

3 Beyond the Oxymoron: Exploring Ethics through the Intelligence Cycle

Hans Born and Aidan Wills

4 Ethics and Morality in U.S. Secret Intelligence

Arthur S. Hulnick and Daniel W. Mattausch

5 Ethics of Human Intelligence Operations: Of MICE and Men

Donald A. Petkus

6 Tension and Strategy: Ethics Phobia

Jan Goldman

7 Tension and Strategy: Sources and Bypassing Strategies

Mark Phythian

Part 2: Ethics and Professionalism

8 Introduction to the Doolittle Commission Report on the Covert Activities of the Central Intelligence Agency

9 Pre–World War II Office of Naval Intelligence’s Special Intelligence Memorandum

Background by Randy Balano and Memorandum by John L. Riheldaffer

10 Professionalization of Intelligence

George Allen

11 The Need for Improvement: Integrity, Ethics, and the CIA

Kent Pekel

12 Guarding against Politicization: A Message to Analysts

CIA Director Robert M. Gates

13 Memorandum: One Person Can Make a Difference

Background by Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) and Memorandum by Andrew Wilkie

14 Ethics and Intelligence after September 2001

Michael Herman

Part 3: Ethics and Intelligence Collection

15 Intelligence Collection and Analysis: Dilemmas and Decisions

John B. Chomeau and Anne C. Rudolph

16 Ethics for the New Surveillance

Gary T. Marx

17 “As Rays of Light to the Human Soul”? Moral Agents and Intelligence Gathering

Toni Erskine

18 Moral Damage and the Justification of Intelligence Collection from Human Sources

John P. Langan, S.J.

19 An Ethical Defense of Torture in Interrogation

Fritz Allhoff

20 U.S. Army Interrogator Survey on Ethics

Rebeca Bolton

Part 4: Ethics and Covert Operations

21 Legitimacy of Covert Action: Sorting out the Moral Responsibilities

Lincoln P. Bloomfield Jr.

22 Covert Intervention a Moral Problem

Charles R. Beitz

23 Managing Covert Political Action: Guideposts from Just War Theory

James A. Barry

24 Ethics of Covert Operations

Loch K. Johnson

Part 5: Ethical Frameworks

25 Just Intelligence Theory

William C. Plouffe Jr.

26 Ethics, Intelligence, and Preemptive and Preventive Actions

Ralph L. DeFalco III

27 Speak No Evil: Intelligence Ethics in Israel

Shlomo Shpiro

28 Using Private Corporations to Conduct Intelligence Activities for National Security Purposes: An Ethical Appraisal

James E. Roper

29 Finding a Balance: When Professional Ethics Conflicts with Outside Scholarship

Jan Goldman

Contributor Biographies When Articles Were Published

Editorial Reviews

...a definitive reference work on competitive intelligence ethics. Jan Goldman's selection and arrangement of content presented in this book is well thought out and certainly conveys the message that ethics in intelligence gathering is not an old joke or an oxymoron.

Intelligence Insights

...deftly edited by Jan Goldman...an incredibly elaborate and intriguing read. Ethics of Spying is very strongly recommended to all policy makers, managers, supervisors, and employees involved in intelligence operations as well as the non-specialists general reader with an interest in espionage and spy history, ethics and tactics.

Wisconsin Bookwatch

Ethics of Intelligence is a compilation of 23 essays by numerous authors....Some are profound and provoke thought...The lead essay, 'Ethics and Intelligence,' by J.E. Drexel Godfrey is excellent.

International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence

With the multiple scandals surrounding the torture of detainees at Abu Ghraib and elsewhere, the so-called "extraordinary rendition" program, and National Security Agency warrantless surveillance in the news, the ethics (or lack thereof) of intelligence is probably under more public scrutiny than at any time since the Church Committee hearings of the 1970s. The 23 papers presented in this collection are considered by editor Goldman (ethics and intelligence, Joint Military Intelligence College) to form the beginnings of an effort to develop a standardized code of ethics for intelligence professionals so that "ethics and intelligence" will be taken seriously rather than relegated to jokes about oxymorons. A number of opening essays consider the broad issues of ethics and espionage. Remaining essays include an "ethical defense of torture in interrogation;" consideration of the politicization of intelligence; discussions of the ethics of covert actions; and explorations of the role of sociologists, anthropologists, and businessmen in intelligence activities.

Reference and Research Book News

Overall, Ethics of Spying is a significant contribution to the literature of intelligence....For intelligence practitioners who have from time-to-time wrestled with their inability to reconcile what they learned in their academic training with the expectations place on them by their industry (and those that will...), this is the book that will inspire. It is a "must read" for every military, law enforcement and private sector intelligence professional.

Australian Defence Force Journal - 2008

The Ethics of Spying asks whether the intelligence profession can be ethical and effective at the same time. The potential conflicts between truth, cover, and deception are considered in the contributions from 25 authors, many with experience in the profession.

Studies In Intelligence

...this book serves as a central reference for intelligence professionals looking for guidance....those who read this book cannot help but benefit from it by becoming more morally aware of the issues that confront our intelligence professionals daily.

Defense Intelligence Journal

The complex moral dilemmas one faces in intelligence collection, analysis, and particularly in operations, are examined in recently declassified and never before published works by authors whose backgrounds are as varied as their insights...

Intelligencer

...a definitive reference work on competitive intelligence ethics. Jan Goldman's selection and arrangement of content presented in this book is well thought out and certainly conveys the message that ethics in intelligence gathering is not an old joke or an oxymoron.--Intelligence Insights

...deftly edited by Jan Goldman...an incredibly elaborate and intriguing read. Ethics of Spying is very strongly recommended to all policy makers, managers, supervisors, and employees involved in intelligence operations as well as the non-specialists general reader with an interest in espionage and spy history, ethics and tactics.--Wisconsin Bookwatch

Ethics of Intelligence is a compilation of 23 essays by numerous authors....Some are profound and provoke thought...The lead essay, 'Ethics and Intelligence, ' by J.E. Drexel Godfrey is excellent.--International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, Vol. 20, No. 1

From the Publisher

Overall, Ethics of Spying is a significant contribution to the literature of intelligence....For intelligence practitioners who have from time-to-time wrestled with their inability to reconcile what they learned in their academic training with the expectations place on them by their industry (and those that will...), this is the book that will inspire. It is a "must read" for every military, law enforcement and private sector intelligence professional.

Australian Defence Force Journal

Ethics of Intelligence is a compilation of 23 essays by numerous authors....Some are profound and provoke thought...The lead essay, 'Ethics and Intelligence,' by J.E. Drexel Godfrey is excellent.

International Journal Of Intelligence and Counterintelligence