to Z of Middle Eastern Intelligence

<I>The A to Z of Middle East Intelligence</I> addresses intelligence issues in the region from ancient history and the Middle Ages through modern times covering the decline of the Ottoman Empire intelligence activity in the Middle East during and between the two world wars and the interplay between colonial and local intelligence and counterintelligence agencies of the period. It also presents the relatively new fundamentalist terrorist organizations that have had a significant impact on international relations and on the structure and deployment of intelligence counterintelligence and other security organs in the Middle East today. With a chronology an introductory essay and over 300 cross-referenced dictionary entries on important events and key organizations involved in all aspects of intelligence gathering and analysis as well as the biographies of key players this is an important reference on the current situation in the Middle East.