APUNTES Y PROPUESTAS PARA LA COOPERACIÓN EN MATERIA DE INTELIGENCIA
Cooperation in the intelligence fi eld, has been a matter of undeniable complexity in all times, notwithstanding sources and methods commitment risks, existing suspicion between allies that may become enemies, and the unavoidable mistrust still existing between intelligence bodies within the country itself, has experienced signi fi cant growth in the last few decades as a result of the emergence of global threats such as terrorism and transnational organized crime among others, and the development of regional and sub regional integration processes, with the subsequent development of common interests. Latin America has witnessed essential changes in this fi eld. From past hemispheric-wide cooperation to fi ght against international communist movements, intelligence cooperation is now focused on public security issues in sub regions, supported basically by different mechanisms, but based on each sub region’s speci fi c needs. Today, UNASUR proposes the possibility and the challenge to develop institutionalized intelligence cooperation mechanisms, both in the fi elds of defense and of public security. This articler explores the history of intelligence cooperation in the region, along with the new opportunities/challenges
Cooperación entre servicios de inteligencia: la dimensión regional
The postmodern world’s characteristics will require increasingly frequent cooperation be-tween intelligence services from different countries, particularly those within the same geopolitical region. The existence of robust and developed formal structures for regional cooperation favors intelligence cooperation, especially when the region’s intelligence culture recognizes these bodies’ role in decision-making. As a typical postmodern entity, the European Union constitutes an ideal set-ting to promote intense and permanent intelligence cooperation. While Latin America is some years behind schedule, it gathers most of the factors that have made the successful European experience possible.
Secrecy: The American Experience
Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan here presents a fascinating account of the development of secrecy as a mode of regulation in American government since World War I-how it was born, how world events shaped it, how it has adversely affected momentous political decisions and events, and how it has eluded efforts to curtail or end it. Selected as a 1998 Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times Book Review Selected as one of the Best Nonfiction Books of 1998 by the Los Angeles Times Book Review "A withering account of the Government's bottomless appetite for 'intelligence'-that is, for collecting, concealing, suppressing, and manipulating it. It is a dismaying tale, though Moynihan has told it with uncommon liveliness and a mordant wit."-Sam Tanenhaus, New York Times Book Review "Moynihan has provided us with an interesting history of secrecy in the United States, and a provocative meditation on the patterns and implications of secrecy in the government."-Claire Berlinski, National Review "Moynihan astutely describes how our bureaucracies quickly learned that having information that others want is a source of power. The senator enlivens his book with fascinating historical examples of how the thirst for secrecy is seemingly insatiable."-Stansfield Turner, Christian Science Monitor