Article ID: CBB829576730

Tacit Knowledge, Secrecy, and Intelligence Assessments: STS Interventions by Two Participant Observers (September 2018)

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With the noted intelligence failures prior to the September 11 attacks and the 2003 Iraq War, the US intelligence community has recognized the need to acquire new, outside expertise to mitigate against future intelligence breakdowns. This recent attention on intelligence outreach provides Science and Technology Studies (STS) scholars with an opportunity to consider the role they might play in these efforts, as well as the various opportunities and difficulties that can shape these relationships, and the types of knowledge that can be produced and known from engagements with these secret communities. This paper provides a reflection on how two STS scholars have attempted to intervene into intelligence and the lessons learned.

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Authors & Contributors
Pereira, Maria do Mar
Hepsø, Vidar
Marshall, Owen
Kirk, Robert G. W.
Hellawell, Philippa
Boas, Hagai
Concepts
Technoscience; science and technology studies
Expertise
Epistemology
Participant observation
Secrecy
Data collection; methods
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
Early modern
20th century, late
Places
United States
Portugal
Poland
New Mexico (U.S.)
Israel
Institutions
International Council for Science
Future Earth. Systems of Sustainable Consumption and Production Knowledge-Action Network
Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory
Royal Society of London
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