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The Lost History of Global Intelligence—and why it matters

Event time: 
Monday, November 5, 2018 - 4:30pm to 5:30pm
Location: 
Henry R. Luce Hall (LUCE ), 203 See map
34 Hillhouse Avenue
New Haven, CT 06511
Speaker/Performer: 
Christopher Andrew is Emeritus Professor of Modern and Contemporary History and former Chair of the Faculty of History at Cambridge University.
Event description: 

The Lost History of Global Intelligence—and why it matters

November 5: How the Lead Role in Strategic Intelligence Passed from Asia to the West
November 6: The Strange History of American-British Intelligence Relations: from George Washington to Donald J Trump
November 8:Russian Intelligence Operations and the West: from Tsar Nicholas II to Vladimir Putin

Christopher Andrew is Emeritus Professor of Modern and Contemporary History and former Chair of the Faculty of History at Cambridge University. Founder of the Cambridge Intelligence Seminar and founding co-editor of Intelligence and National Security, he is also Chair of the British Intelligence Study Group and former Official Historian of the British Security Service, MI5. He is Honorary Professor at Queen’s University, Belfast, and former Visiting Professor at Harvard, Toronto and Canberra. Professor Andrew’s latest book, The Secret World: A History of Intelligence (Yale), analyses the period from Moses to Putin. His previous books on the use and abuse of intelligence have appeared on best-seller lists on four continents.

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