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Intelligence, U.S. Foreign Relations, and Historical Amnesia

| April 2019

Spies, poisonings, Russian election meddling, disinformation, FBI scandals, international terrorism, weapons of mass destruction, mass surveillance, cyber espionage, and data harvesting: the use and abuse of intelligence is one of the most contested and scrutinized subjects in contemporary news and current affairs. It generates almost daily news headlines across the globe. For anyone on social media, it often seems as if barely an hour passes without another spy scandal breaking. Such scandals are the subjects of many heated dinner-party conversations on university campuses....

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Walton, Calder. "Intelligence, U.S. Foreign Relations, and Historical Amnesia." Passport: The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Review, (April 2019): 33–39.

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