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Sexual Seduction, Illicit Sex, And Licit Sex: International And National Leaders As Targets Of Intelligence Operations, Ibpp Editor Sep 1998

Sexual Seduction, Illicit Sex, And Licit Sex: International And National Leaders As Targets Of Intelligence Operations, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article describes the varied consequences that could be achieved by a hostile intelligence service through effecting the sexual seduction of an international or national leader or through exploiting ongoing illicit or licit sex engaged in by that leader.


Moral Assessment Of Individuals In Idealistic Enterprises: An Example From Clandestine Weapons Research And Counterterrorism (Part Ii), Ibpp Editor Sep 1998

Moral Assessment Of Individuals In Idealistic Enterprises: An Example From Clandestine Weapons Research And Counterterrorism (Part Ii), Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This is the second and final installment of an article based on a presentation, "Moral Assessment of Individuals in Idealistic Enterprises," by Ms. Jean Maria Arrigo at the 1998 Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, San Francisco, California. In the first installment (September 4, 1998, IBPP, 5(10)), Ms. Arrigo explored the principles of competitive evolution and operationalization as they might morally and ethically impact on nuclear weapons-related research and on counterterrorist response to nuclear and biological terrorist attack. In the present installment (with very minor editing by IBPP), Ms. Arrigo continues exploring operationalization and then concludes with an analysis …


The Construct Of Personality: Implications For Psychological Profiles, Background Investigations, And Intelligence Agent Preassessment And Evaluation, Ibpp Editor Jul 1998

The Construct Of Personality: Implications For Psychological Profiles, Background Investigations, And Intelligence Agent Preassessment And Evaluation, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article describes complexities of the construct of personality and their implications for psychological profiles, background investigations, and intelligence agent preassessment and evaluation.


Psychoanalysis And The Soviet Secret Police: Another Look At The Eitingon Controversy, Ibpp Editor Jun 1998

Psychoanalysis And The Soviet Secret Police: Another Look At The Eitingon Controversy, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article provides a hypothetical damage assessment based on the assumption that Dr. Max Eitingon, a significant early member of the international psychoanalytic movement, was also a Soviet intelligence operative.


Security Politics Of The Intelligence Quotient (Iq), Ibpp Editor May 1998

Security Politics Of The Intelligence Quotient (Iq), Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article describes conceptual weaknesses of the intelligence quotient (IQ) and their security implications.


Trends. Nuclear Tests In India: Is The Buddha Smiling?, Ibpp Editor May 1998

Trends. Nuclear Tests In India: Is The Buddha Smiling?, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

The author discusses nuclear testing in India.


The Psychology Of Intent: Problems For Personnel Security And Counterintelligence Personnel, Ibpp Editor May 1998

The Psychology Of Intent: Problems For Personnel Security And Counterintelligence Personnel, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article describes the psychology of intent as it applies to individuals who have violated some aspect of security prescriptions or proscriptions.


Some Psychological Impediments To Detecting Deception: Challenges For The Intelligence Analyst And Political Psychologist, Ibpp Editor Apr 1998

Some Psychological Impediments To Detecting Deception: Challenges For The Intelligence Analyst And Political Psychologist, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article describes some psychological impediments to the detection of deception in political events.


A Mnemonic For Intelligence Analysis And Operations, Ibpp Editor Mar 1998

A Mnemonic For Intelligence Analysis And Operations, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article describes and critiques the self-reference effect as a mnemonic facilitating intelligence analysis and operations.


Security Bureaucracies: The Psychology Of Keeping And Divulging Secrets, Ibpp Editor Mar 1998

Security Bureaucracies: The Psychology Of Keeping And Divulging Secrets, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article describes aspects of the psychology of keeping and divulging secrets to inform policies of security bureaucracies' human resource managers.


Intelligence Operations And Personality: Are There Guidelines For Assessment?, Ibpp Editor Mar 1998

Intelligence Operations And Personality: Are There Guidelines For Assessment?, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article explores whether there are appropriate guidelines for assessing the personality of a potential intelligence agent.


Social And Personal Selves: Vulnerabilities For Intelligence Case Officers And Agents?, Ibpp Editor Feb 1998

Social And Personal Selves: Vulnerabilities For Intelligence Case Officers And Agents?, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article describes a basic aspect of self-representation that may present strengths and weaknesses for the personnel security management and operational effectiveness of intelligence case officers and agents.


What To Believe About What To Believe: Implications For Security Bureaucracies, Ibpp Editor Feb 1998

What To Believe About What To Believe: Implications For Security Bureaucracies, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article describes psychological findings on the confidence of eyewitnesses for their own testimony and the reactions of jury members to eyewitness testimony. These findings are related to adjudications of alleged security violations.


Terror Management Theory: Relevance For Control Of The Intelligence Agent, Ibpp Editor Feb 1998

Terror Management Theory: Relevance For Control Of The Intelligence Agent, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article describes psychological findings stemming from terror management theory that have relevance for case officer control of an intelligent agent.


Empathy And Political Psychology: Problematic Contributions To Security Issues, Ibpp Editor Feb 1998

Empathy And Political Psychology: Problematic Contributions To Security Issues, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article describes potential contributions of the empathy construct to political psychology as well as problems hindering this potential from being realized.


A "How To" Of Nuclear Proliferation, Ibpp Editor Jan 1998

A "How To" Of Nuclear Proliferation, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article describes several political psychological approaches to best engage in nuclear proliferation.


The Steady Dating Relationship: A Model For The Intelligence Case Officer-Agent Dyad?, Ibpp Editor Jan 1998

The Steady Dating Relationship: A Model For The Intelligence Case Officer-Agent Dyad?, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article advocates that social psychological research on interpersonal relationships varying in intimacy may facilitate the prediction, evaluation, and influence of intelligence case officer-agent dyadic phenomena.