Abstract
The practical business of government intelligence and security communities exist, for the most part, in necessary secrecy. There has historically been a measure of ad-hoc interaction between the UK’s intelligence community with individual academics and universities. In this chapter we will explore some of the ways in which engagement between the UK’s intelligence community and with academia can best be utilised to serve intelligence requirements. In examining the potential benefits of engagement the similarities and differences between academic research and the process of intelligence analysis, and the potential obstacles to greater and more systematic engagement, we highlight how mutual benefit may be derived in terms of challenge analysis, corroboration, validation and the enrichment of knowledge.
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