Intelligent Intelligence

Still they come, rolling off the presses or, these days, off the high-speed laser printers: books, books, books on intelligence. By which I mean secret intelligence, or the processing, analysis, and interpretation of information, and not that mysterious faculty which the misguided believe can be measured by IQ tests (although the one without the other isn’t going to be much good to anyone).

And Prime Minister Thatcher still persists in her titanic losing battle to prevent the citizens of the United Kingdom from reading one such book, one that many of them have already read. This battle has involved major court hearings in Australia, Hong Kong, Britain, and elsewhere, and the main outcome of it is that Peter Wright, the formerly destitute septuagenarian ex-Security Service officer who is the author of Spycatcher—the object of all this official attention—has become a millionaire.

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Still they come, rolling off the presses or, these days, off the high-speed laser printers: books, books, books on intelligence. By which I mean secret intelligence, or the processing, analysis, and interpretation of information, and not that mysterious faculty which the misguided believe can be measured by IQ tests (although the one without the other isn’t going to be much good to anyone).

And Prime Minister Thatcher still persists in her titanic losing battle to prevent the citizens of the United Kingdom from reading one such book, one that many of them have already read. This battle has involved major court hearings in Australia, Hong Kong, Britain, and elsewhere, and the main outcome of it is that Peter Wright, the formerly destitute septuagenarian ex-Security Service officer who is the author of Spycatcher—the object of all this official attention—has become a millionaire.