This volume examines intelligence services since 1945 in their role as knowledge producers.

The Knowledge of Intelligence Agencies in the Cold War World: An Introduction Rüdiger Bergien, Debora Gerstenberger, and Constantin Goschler 1. Compromised Cooperation: Researchers on Eastern Europe in the Service of Intelligence in West Germany after 1945 Thomas Wolf 2. Dogma versus Progress: KGB's Scientific and Technological Surveillance (In-) Capacities from the 1960s to the 1980s Evgenia Lezina 3. Mission Impossible: The Difficult Consolidation of Strategic Intelligence in the United States During the Cold War Andreas Lutsch 4. American Security Databases and the Production of Space, 1967-1974: Enhancing or Obscuring Patterns? Jens Wegener 5. Knowledge Transfer and Technopolitics: The CIA, the West German Intelligence Service, and the Digitization of Information Processing in the 1960s Rüdiger Bergien 6. Information Technology is Power: The Intelligence Service's Grab for the Digital Computing Sector in Brazil Marcelo Vianna 7. The Computer as Document Shredder: Video Terminals and the Dawn of a New Era of Knowledge Production in Brazil's Serviço Nacional de Informações (SNI) Debora Gerstenberger 8. Turkish Intelligence, Surveillance and the Secrets of the Cold War: Blocked Modernization? Egemen Bezci 9. Solid Modernity: Data Storage and Information Circuits in the Communist Security Police in Poland Franciszek Dabrowski 10. Perceptions of Digital Computers at the German Domestic Intelligence Service: Eliminating the Human Factor? Christopher Kirchberg 11. Global Intelligence Academies: Information Schools during the Civil-Military Dictatorship in Brazil Samantha Viz Quadrat 12. Intelligence Public Relations: The Annual Reports on the Protection of the Constitution in West Germany Marcel Schmeer Conclusion Rüdiger Bergien, Debora Gerstenberger, and Constantin Goschler