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Policing the Cold War: The Emergence of New Police Structures in Europe 1946–1953

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Philip Jenkins
Philip Jenkins
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Pennsylvania State University
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We have recently been reminded of the existence of a ‘missing dimension’ in national security affairs, namely the whole question of secret intelligence and clandestine operations. It can also be suggested that the question of internal security has traditionally represented another gap, though one that occurs for very different reasons. Traditionally, secret intelligence was often unavailable as a subject for comment or academic study precisely because of its secrecy. Internal security included some areas of sensitive political surveillance that fell into the same category; but continued across the spectrum to regular uniformed police work, a subject apparently too mundane and obvious for inclusion in accounts of political history. Police of all categories belong, it seems, to social rather than political history – the world of ‘history with the politics left out’.

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The Historical Journal , Volume 31 , Issue 1 , March 1988 , pp. 141 - 157
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988

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