Intelligence and Security

The King’s Intelligence and Security Group (KISG) provides a forum for strengthened networking among staff members and PhD students of the Departments of War Studies and Defence Studies, and practitioners working in the fields of intelligence. We bring together researchers whose individual expertise ranges from the history of military and civilian intelligence to contemporary intelligence issues, such as intelligence oversight, privatisation and international liaison. Through an active programme of events, expert debates and applied research, we foster the public discussion of key issues in intelligence.

The KISG contributes to the current research of the intelligence community- both academic and professional. In an era in which the volume and speed of available information has increased exponentially, intelligence professionals face an uphill task in distinguishing, in a timely fashion, between signals and noise - between what is relevant and irrelevant from a mass of information. Compounding these difficulties is the global scale of the threats faced in the 21st century.

MA in Intelligence and International Security

Our community of security and intelligence researchers work closely with the teaching team who design and delivery the flagship Intelligence and International Security MA programme in the Department of War Studies. The regular teaching programme is supplemented by an intelligence masterclass series featuring talks and workshops led by our network of prestigious and influential contacts and fellows - some of whom were the leading intelligence officials and practitioners in the UK and internationally, as well as visiting researchers. They each bring a range of diverse and professional perspectives and experiences into the classroom to supplement the student experience.

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Members

Moira Andrews

Visiting Professor

Nizar Aswed

PhD Candidate

Keith Beaven

Visiting Research Fellow

Berenice Burnett

PhD Candidate

Peter Busch

Senior Lecturer

Gerhard Conrad

Visiting Professor in Intelligence Studies

Diane Cooke

PhD Candidate

Daniel de Wit

PhD Student

Joseph Devanny

Lecturer in National Security Studies

Huw Dylan

Senior Lecturer in Intelligence Studies and International Security

David Easter

War Studies Online Academic Director

Jules Gaspard

Lecturer in Digital Intelligence

David V Gioe

Visiting Professor of Intelligence and International Security

Michael Goodman

Professor of Intelligence and International Affairs

Elena Grossfeld

PhD Candidate

Aviva Guttmann

Visiting Researcher in Intelligence and International Security

Kjetil Hatlebrekke

Visiting Senior Research Fellow

Tony Insall

Senior Visiting Research Fellow

Magda Long

PhD Candidate

Thomas Maguire

Visiting Fellow with the King's Intelligence and Security Group in the Department of War Studies

Tony Manganello

PhD Candidate

Ciaran Martin

Visiting Professor in the Department of War Studies and The Strand Group

Eva Michaels

Visiting Research Fellow

Sarah-Louise Miller

PhD Student

Kevin O'Brien

Visiting Senior Research Fellow

Nawaf Obaid

Senior Research Fellow

David Omand

Visiting Professor

Yusuf Ali Ozkan

PhD Candidate

Celia Parker

PhD Candidate

Tore Pedersen

Visiting Professor

Suzanne Raine

Visiting Professor, Department of War Studies

Paul Rimmer

Visiting Professor

John Sawers

Visiting Professor

David Schaefer

PhD Candidate

Tim Stevens

Senior Lecturer in Global Security

Tim Symington

Visiting Senior Research Fellow

John Taylor

Visiting Research Fellow

Travis Kaiser Weinger

PhD Candidate

Martha Whitesmith

Visiting Fellow

Tim Willasey-Wilsey

Visiting Professor

Charlotte Yelamos

PhD Candidate

Contemporary and Theoretical Studies’

David Omand, How Spies Think: 10 Lessons in Intelligence (Penguin, 2020)
Felipa Lentzos, Michael Goodman, and James Wilson, ‘Health security intelligence: engaging across disciplines and sectors’, Intelligence and National Security, 2020.
Martha Whitesmith, Cognitive Bias in Intelligence Analysis: Testing the Analysis of Competing Hypotheses Method (Edinburgh University Press, 2020)
David Gioe, Michael Goodman, and David Frey, ‘Unforgiven: Russian Intelligence Vengeance as Political Theatre and Strategic Messaging’, Intelligence and National Security, 2019.
Joe Devanny, Robert Dover, Michael Goodman, and David Omand, ‘Why the British Government Must Invest in the Next Generation of Intelligence Analysts’, RUSI Journal, 2018.
Huw Dylan, Michael Goodman, Peter Jackson, Pia Therese Jansen, Joe Maiolo, and Tore Pedersen, ‘The Way of the Norse Ravens: merging profession and academe in Norwegian national intelligence higher education’, Intelligence and National Security, 2017.

Cold War History

David Easter, ‘Nikita Khrushchev and the compromise of Soviet secret intelligence sources’, International Journal of Intelligence and Counter-Intelligence, 2021.
Huw Dylan, ‘Culture, Adaptation, and Change in British Intelligence in the Transition from World War to Cold War’ in Cultures of Intelligence in the Era of the World Wars (Oxford University Press, 2020)
Huw Dylan, ‘SIS, Grigori Tokaev, and the London Controlling Section: New Perspectives on a Cold War defector and Cold War deception’, War in History, 2019.
Aviva Guttman, The Origins of International Counterterrorism: Switzerland at the Forefront of Crisis Negotiations, Multilateral Diplomacy, and Intelligence Cooperation 1969-1977 (Brill Publishers, 2018)

Secret Organisations and Communities

Huw Dylan, David Gioe, and Michael Goodman, The CIA and the Pursuit of Security: History, Documents and Contexts (Edinburgh University Press, 2020).
Jules Gaspard and Richard Aldrich, ‘Secrecy, Spooks and Ghosts: Memoirs and Contested Memory at the CIA’, Journal of American Studies, 2020.
Thomas Maguire and Hannah Franklin, ‘Creating a Commonwealth security culture? State-building and the international politics of security assistance in Tanzania’, International History Review, 2020.

Cyber and Signals Intelligence

David Easter, ‘The impact of ‘Tempest’ on Anglo-American communications security and intelligence, 1943-70’, Intelligence and National Security, 2021.
David Gioe, Michael S. Goodman and Tim Stevens, ‘Intelligence in the cyber era: Evolution or revolution?’, Political Science Quarterly, 2020.
David Easter, ‘Protecting Secrets: British diplomatic cipher machines in the early Cold War, 1945-1970’, Intelligence and National Security, 2019.
David Schaefer, ‘Intelligence cooperation and new trends in space technology: do the ties still bind?’, Australian Journal of International Affairs, 2018.

Intelligence and the War Studies Podcast

Discover episodes of the War Studies podcast featuring members of KISG. Professor Michael Goodman, discusses the individuals who turned traitor against their own country to spy for the other side during the Cold War. Dr Tony Insall speaks about his new book ‘Secret Alliances: Special Operations and Intelligence in Norway 1940-1945’. He discusses hitherto unpublished materials buried deep in intelligence archives that shine a new light on the special operations in war-time Norway.

Cold War Spies with Professor Mike Goodman

Intelligence and the Norwegian Resistance retold with Dr Tony Insal‪l‬

Women's Intelligence Network

The Women’s Intelligence Network (WIN) connects, supports, and promotes female scholars who work in the field of Intelligence Studies. WIN organises brown-bag lunches on the theme of female scholar presenters, gender and intelligence research topics and problems faced by women in their professional advancement.

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