Moving Towards a Secret Intelligence Joint Capability?: Challenges and Opportunities of Removing Organisational Boundaries

Celia Parker-Vincent; Michael S Goodman

doi:10.1080/03071847.2024.2406617

Moving Towards a Secret Intelligence Joint Capability? Challenges and Opportunities of Removing Organisational Boundaries

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Former UK intelligence chiefs Alex Younger and Jeremy Fleming recently suggested that the country’s three intelligence collection agencies should be seen as a capability, questioning whether they should even still be separate. Celia Parker-Vincent and Michael Goodman explain what might be lost in blurring or removing their distinct identities and suggest that finding a way to enable the closest possible working between the agencies is the key to facing today’s threats and ever-more complex operating environment. The UK should look to its Five Eyes partners, specifically the US and Australia, for inspiration. With one of the pre-eminent intelligence apparatuses in the world, the new UK government should make sure there is no risk to the country losing its strong position.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	22-27
Number of pages	6
Journal	RUSI Journal
Volume	169
Issue number	5
Early online date	27 Sept 2024
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/03071847.2024.2406617
Publication status	Published - 30 Sept 2024

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