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ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY
FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
DEPARTMENT OF INTERNATIONAL POLITICS
SEMESTER ONE EXAMINATIONS
ACADEMIC YEAR 2008/2009
IP35620 INTELLIGENCE AND INTERNATIONAL SECURITY
Time Allowed: Two Hours
Answer TWO questions from the list below
1. Why has it become easier over the last twenty years to write about the history of
intelligence and security?
2. Why was the Bolsheviks’ Cheka not abolished when the Russian Civil War (1918-
1920) ended?
3. ‘The Germans were not terrorized into submission by the Nazi regime; they policed
themselves.’ Do you agree?
4. Why did the Soviet Union’s intelligence services manage to recruit so many spies in
North America in the 1930s and 1940s?
5. ‘A disastrous failure for a decade before the outbreak of war, British Sigint quickly
became a triumphant success once war broke out.’ Do you agree with this
assessment of British Sigint during the Second World War?
6. Who was the best of the West’s spies providing intelligence from within the Soviet
Union during the Cold War, and why?
7. How different from one another were American covert action and Soviet active
measures during the Cold War?
8. Did Al-Qaeda’s attacks on New York and Washington DC on 11 September 2001
represent instances of blameworthy failure on the part of the US intelligence
community?