The British Secret State Old and New
Jun 2005, Vol. 150, No. 3
By Peter Hennessy
In this article concentration will be largely on the ‘new’ part of the title; but not wholly. Because the ‘new’ is incomprehensible without an appreciation of the ‘old’, by which is meant largely the Cold War experience which formed the senior figures in the British intelligence community who were at the top when catastrophe struck on 11 September 2001, during the run-up to the Iraq War of 2003 and the inquests which followed. It has fallen to that generation, too, to implement the reforms to the British intelligence process which were announced by Jack Straw, the Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary, on 23 March 2005.
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By Peter Hennessy
In this article concentration will be largely on the ‘new’ part of the title; but not wholly. Because the ‘new’ is incomprehensible without an appreciation of the ‘old’, by which is meant largely the Cold War experience which formed the senior figures in the British intelligence community who were at the top when catastrophe struck on 11 September 2001, during the run-up to the Iraq War of 2003 and the inquests which followed. It has fallen to that generation, too, to implement the reforms to the British intelligence process which were announced by Jack Straw, the Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary, on 23 March 2005.
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