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A revealing look at the interrelationship between secret intelligence agencies and the wider societies and cultures they inhabit
Intelligence agencies are traditionally understood as cloistered entities. Hidden behind a veil of secrecy, they conduct their activities relatively free from public scrutiny, and their assessments are ideally detached from the cultural and political biases that pervade our fallen world.
Today, however, intelligence services have come in from the cold. They feature routinely in our popular culture and our political debates. Our ideas about them, from "deep state" conspiracy theories to popular tropes drawn from spy fiction and cinema, have even influenced the outcome of major elections. Likewise, as John Le Carré once put it, intelligence officers do not sit "like monks in a cell" but are themselves products of the social, political, and cultural domains they inhabit.
Spies, Culture, and Society brings together some of the world's leading experts on intelligence and its wider impact to explore different aspects of this reciprocal relationship between spies, culture, and society. The topics covered include the influence of spy films and novels, interactions between spies and journalists, the historical roots of the "deep state" conspiracy theory, Western intelligence and imperialism, and more. Together, these chapters showcase a new way of understanding intelligence agencies as fundamentally integrated into the cultures, societies, and political systems that they seek to analyze and protect.
Offering meaningful insights for intelligence studies scholars, Cold War historians, and media scholars, this collection offers a new paradigm for understanding intelligence agencies as fundamentally integrated into the cultures and societies they seek to protect.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction, Simon Willmetts
Part I: Intelligence and the Politics of Fiction
1. Security's Fictions: Speculative Narrative and the Imagination of the State, Timothy Melley
2. Taking Fiction Seriously: Spies, Secrecy, and Democracy, Pauline Blistène
3. The CIA and Hollywood, Tricia Jenkins and Simon Willmetts
4. An Interview with German Spy Novelist Titus Müller, Constant Hijzen
Part II: Intelligence, Secrecy, and Paranoia
5. Trust No One: An Intellectual and Cultural History of US Deep State Conspiracy Theories, Kathryn Olmsted
6. The Perfidious and Invisible Enemy: Narratives of the Dutch Covert Sphere in the 1960s, Constant Hijzen
7. An Interview with Swedish Psychological Defense Practitioners Björn Palmertz and Per Thunholm, Simon Willmetts
Part III: Journalism and State Secrecy
8. A Culture Collapses?: Spies, Unsecrecy, and the American Press since 9/11, Richard J. Aldrich
9. An Interview with National Security Reporter James Risen, Constant Hijzen and Simon Willmetts
Part IV: Intelligence Mentalities
10. Imperial Boomerang: Domestic CIA Operations during the Cold War, Hugh Wilford
11. Cord Meyer: A Gray Man of the CIA, Jonathan Nashel
Conclusion: Spies and Society, the Cultural Politics of Espionage, Constant Hijzen
List of Contributors 297
Index 303
