Profiles in Intelligence: An Interview with Professor Christopher Andrew

Christopher Andrew has been at the forefront of the study of intelligence over the last five decades. During this time he has produced a series of landmark works that have transformed our knowledge and understanding of the role of intelligence in the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, the United States, and beyond. Indeed, through his published work and wider activities he has made one of the most significant contributions to the development of Intelligence Studies as a discrete area of academic inquiry, alerting historians to the extent to which intelligence constituted a ‘missing dimension’ of international history that needed to be addressed. Beyond his own published work, his commitment to mentoring subsequent generations of academics who have themselves gone on to become leading figures in the study of intelligence has helped ensure that this ‘missing dimension’ has been progressively revealed and incorporated into historical writing. Without his pioneering work, the study of intelligence would almost certainly have progressed differently, more slowly and without the sense of identity that the establishment of this journal and linked initiatives, such as the Studies in Intelligence book series, have helped to create. [Opening paragraph of introduction]