Author: Blancke, Stephan Private Intelligence Intelligence activities of non- state actors From the series: Globale Gesellschaft und internationale Beziehungen 2011. Dissertation Freie Universität Berlin, 2010. Ca. 220 S. With 14 illustrations and four tables ISBN: 978-3-531-18288-9 Private intelligence services - a threat to democracy ? ( Expected Release Date : 17/06/2011 ) About: In contrast to the private military service providers the activities of private intelligence structures (PIS) are largely a mystery . While in Germany some incidents of this gray area were published in the media , dimension and structure of this booming industry are unknown - they are behaving discreetly . This book provides an survey not only of the historical development of classical private intelligence service provider s, but also the intelligence structures of cults and organized crime as well as the activiti
"Information at best will always be in some part fragmentary, obsolete, and ambiguous." (Armstrong, Willis C. (et al.): The Hazards of Single-Outcome Forecasting, in: Westerfield Bradford, H. (Ed.), Inside CIA's private world, Yale 1995, p. 242)