Ethics of Spying: A Reader for the Intelligence Professional

✍ Scribed by Jan Goldman, Joel H. Rosenthal, J E. Drexel Godfrey, R V. Jones, Arthur S. Hulnick, David W. Mattausch, Kent Pekel, Tony Pfaff, John P. Langan, John B. Chomeau, Anne C. Rudolph, Fritz Allhoff, Michael Skerker, Robert M. Gates, Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, Andrew Wilkie, James Ernest Roscoe, Lincoln P. Bloomfield Jr, Charles R. Beitz, David L. Perry, James A. Barry

• Publisher: Scarecrow Press
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 431
• Series: Scarecrow Professional Intelligence Education Series
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Intelligence professionals are employees of the government working in a business that some would consider unethical—the business of spying. This book looks at the dilemmas that exist when one is asked to perform a civil service that is in conflict with what that individual believes to be "ethical." This is the first book to offer the best essays, articles, and speeches on ethics and intelligence that demonstrate the complex moral dilemmas in intelligence collection, analysis, and operations that confront government employees. Some are recently declassified and never before published, and all are written by authors whose backgrounds are as varied as their insights, including Robert M. Gates, former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency; John P. Langan, the Joseph Cardinal Bernardin Professor of Catholic Social Thought at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University; and Loch K. Johnson, Regents Professor of Political Science at the University of Georgia and recipient of the Owens Award for contributions to the understanding of U.S. intelligence activities. To the intelligence professional, this is a valuable collection of literature for building an ethical code that is not dependent on any specific agency, department, or country. Managers, supervisors, and employees of all levels should read this book. Creating the foundation for the study of ethics and intelligence by filling in the gap between warfare and philosophy, Ethics of Spying makes the statement that the intelligence professional has ethics.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 6
Foreword......Page 10
Preface......Page 12
Acknowledgments......Page 16
1 Ethics and Intelligence......Page 18
2 Intelligence Ethics......Page 35
3 Ethics and Morality in U.S. Secret Intelligence......Page 56
4 The Need for Improvement: Integrity, Ethics, and the CIA......Page 69
5 Bungee Jumping off the Moral Highground: Ethics of Espionage in the Modern Age......Page 83
6 Moral Damage and the Justification of Intelligence Collection from Human Sources......Page 121
7 Intelligence Collection and Analysis: Dilemmas and Decisions......Page 131
8 An Ethical Defense of Torture in Interrogation......Page 143
9 Interrogation Ethics in the Context of Intelligence Collection......Page 158
10 Guarding against Politicization: A Message to Analysts......Page 188
11 Memorandum: One Person Can Make a Difference......Page 202
12 The Ethics of War, Spying, and Compulsory Training......Page 207
13 Legitimacy of Covert Action: Sorting out the Moral Responsibilities......Page 210
14 Covert Intervention as a Moral Problem......Page 223
15 ‘‘Repugnant Philosophy’’: Ethics, Espionage, and Covert Action......Page 238
16 Managing Covert Political Action: Guideposts from Just War Theory......Page 265
17 Ethics of Covert Operations......Page 283
18 Military and Civilian Perspectives on the Ethics of Intelligence: Report on a Workshop at the Department of Philosophy......Page 317
19 Sociology: Ethics of Covert Methods......Page 331
20 Comment on ‘‘The Ethics of Covert Methods’’......Page 346
21 Science: Anthropologists as Spies......Page 353
22 Business: Ethical Issues in Competitive Intelligence Practice......Page 360
23 Business: The Challenge of Completely Ethical Competitive Intelligence and the ‘‘CHIP’’ Model......Page 379
Appendix A: Principles, Creeds, Codes, and Values......Page 396
Appendix B: Case Studies......Page 411
Contributors......Page 426