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Espionage: A Guide to Reference Sources

Reference Services Review

ISSN: 0090-7324

Article publication date: 1 March 1980

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Abstract

The reader who ventures vicariously or otherwise into the murky world of spies and spying will quickly discover a semantic confusion in which the terms “espionage” and “intelligence” are used with a bewildering profusion of meanings. Basically, however, “intelligence” refers to information; thus, intelligence agencies and agents are involved in the collection, evaluation and dissemination of information for a variety of purposes. “Espionage,” on the other hand, properly refers to the collecting of usually secret information by means of clandestine techniques and methods. Espionage is only a part of the larger function of intelligence activity but the terms have become thoroughly confused in much of the literature as well as in the public mind.

Citation

Block, B.A. (1980), "Espionage: A Guide to Reference Sources", Reference Services Review, Vol. 8 No. 3, pp. 69-73. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb048688

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MCB UP Ltd

Copyright © 1980, MCB UP Limited

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