Delusions of Intelligence

Explores how the Allies achieved Signals Intelligence success in WWII, success which fostered the German blindness to Enigma's compromise.

Autorentext
R. A. Ratcliff, who currently lives and consults in the hills above Silicon Valley, has taught history and rhetoric at the University of California at Berkeley and the University of San Francisco and has lectured at the National Security Agency's intelligence school. In addition to working in the high tech industry, Dr Ratcliff has written articles for Cryptologia, Intelligence and National Security, and the NSA's internal newsletter.

Klappentext
How, through all of World War II, the Germans failed to recognize that the Allies best source of intelligence came from the Germans own wireless signals encrypted by the cipher machine Enigma. This first-ever analysis of both the German and Allied sides of the story, argues that organizations culture and structure play a vital role in security failures and successes. The causes behind Germanys failure still exist in corporate and government agencies, from competition and compartmentalization, to narrow focuses and hierarchical rigidity.

Zusammenfassung
In 1974, the British government admitted that its WWII secret intelligence organization had read Germany's ciphers on a massive scale. This book, the first comparative study of WWII SIGINT (Signals Intelligence), analyzes the characteristics that allowed the Allies SIGINT success and that fostered the German blindness to Enigma's compromise.

Inhalt
Introduction: the traitor in our midst; 1. Enigma: the development and use of a new technology; 2. Early triumph: German intelligence successes; 3. Of no mutual assistance: compartmentalization and competition in German signals intelligence; 4. The work of Station X: centralizing Allied cryptology at Bletchley Park; 5. Protecting Boniface: Allied security, disguise, and dissemination of Ultra; 6. The illusion of security: the German explanations for Allied successes; 7. Determined answers: structural problems in German signal intelligence; 8. A long-standing anxiety: Allied communications security; 9. Enter the machines: the role of science and machines in the cryptologic war; Conclusion: ending the era of security.

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