I am delighted to share the final program for our upcoming MQ & @socintelhist.bsky.social Workshop, Intelligence in the Southern Hemisphere: Past and Present. We so pleased to have been able to gather together such a fantastic group of ANZ intelligence studies scholars!

Sydney talk. Looking forward to talking at Macquarie University’s Intelligence Studies Research Group on Wednesday 12 August. Thanks to @melaniebrand.bsky.social and Brian Cuddy for the invitation! All welcome. And you can find a copy in the wild at Sydney’s Abbey’s bookshop!

"The enduring achievement of the intel intellectuals," writes Sonja Belkin in the @intnatsecjournal.bsky.social "...but the conviction that intelligence analysis could stand as a discipline in its own right, equipped to tackle uncertainty with a scientist’s precision." @georgetownup.bsky.social

"The Intelligence Intellectuals ... fills a real gap between the OSS-era scholarship of Robin Winks and the more comprehensive Cold War institutional histories, and it does so with an organizational historian’s eye for what makes institutions work."

Happy Fourth of July and 250th to my many and valued American friends.

Are you in Melbourne on 30 July? @petercgrace.bsky.social will be speaking about his new book, The Intelligence Intellectuals, strategic warning and the ongoing relevance of intelligence analysis at the University of Melbourne at 4pm. Looks fantastic! 👉 www.eventbrite.com/e/the-intell...

The Intelligence Intellectuals: Social Scientists and the Making of the CIA

Two talks by Dr Peter C. Grace relating to his recent book. Imposter Syndrome and Intel Analysis and Lessons Learned.

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Chatham House link to Dan Lomas' review of the Intelligence Intellectuals: chathamhouse.org/publications... @sandbaggerone.bsky.social @chathamhouse.org e

Book reviews: The social science behind the CIA and counting Russia’s crimes against nature

A potted selection of reviews from our sister journal ‘International Affairs’, by its managing editor, Hannah Patrick

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MELBOURNE BOOK TALK: In 1950 professors were brought into CIA to address the urgent need to understand Soviet intentions and capability for war. Talking with @davidschaeferch.bsky.social on July 29 at 5.30pm, 356 Collins St. @aiianational.bsky.social Register here: aiiavic.glueup.com/event/the-in...

"Sure to become the standard reference for anyone seeking to understand the intellectual foundations of American intelligence analysis," says @paulmcgarr.bsky.social. @sandbaggerone.bsky.social says it is "meticulously researched" and the CIA journal calls it "an insightful study." shorturl.at/tpaiJ

I recently sat down with the Spy Museum’s @sashaingber.bsky.social to discuss the role of academics in reshaping the CIA. We unpacked CIA’s reactions, the institutional tensions they exposed, and why the debate still matters. Get the book: shorturl.at/tpaiJ m.youtube.com/watch?v=mPhb...

From Ivory Tower to Iron Curtain: The Academics Who Reshaped the CIA | SpyCast

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Had fun tonight at the official global launch of the Intelligence Intellectuals at the Centre for Strategic Studies at Vic. I don’t usually smile that much so I must have felt relieved it came off ok. Thanks to @davidcapie.bsky.social for hosting, and to the many friends who came along.

A fantastic response so far to The Intelligence Intellectuals: Social Scientists and the Making of CIA. Available in paperback, hardback, audiobook and ebook at all good bookstores, including www.amazon.com/Intelligence...

‘If you want James Bond, go to your library’, says Neil Burnside, in the cult 1970s British TV show, The Sandbaggers. ‘But if you want a successful operation, sit at your desk and think. And then think again’. @sandbaggerone.bsky.social in @iajournal.bsky.social ! academic.oup.com/ia/article-a...

Businesses are "desperately trying to make sense of the unknown” in geopolitics, Ron Carucci recently wrote in the @hbr.org. CIA's restructure in late 1950 is a textbook case study of how to deal with uncertainty when uncertainty is your business. www.petercgrace.com/blog-petergr...

BIG BUSINESS AND THE CIA: LESSONS ABOUT ORGANISATIONAL DESIGN — Peter C. Grace

WHAT CAN BIG BUSINESS LEARN FROM THE CIA’S 1950S RESTRUCTURING? Ron Carucci recently w rote in the Harvard Business Review that businesses are "desperately trying to make sense of the unknow...

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I joined Larry to discuss my new book The Intelligence Intellectuals — and how social scientists helped reshape modern intelligence. 🎧https://open.spotify.com/episode/0gefzL3ijZDxwmT5kDQ3nG 📖https://amazon.com.au/Intelligence-Intellectuals-Social-Scientists-Making-ebook/dp/B0F7S1QFW4 #Intelligence

Inside CIA: another photo from Sherman Kent Jnr. This time one he took of his father’s office inside CIA, presumably Langley. The pin up girl is an SAS airlines calendar, which Sherman Jnr commented he liked, because it looked like his wife Laura.

A great day in D.C. Started off with Sasha Ingber at the Spy Museum for SpyCast, a quick dash across town to lunch with some intel academics; to Georgetown’s Walsh School to talk the Intelligence Intellectuals, and dinner at the NZ Embassy with the ever-charming Chris Seed.

Just spent a night with Sherman and Laura Kent in Vermont. Sherman is the son of the most influential man in intelligence analysis, Sherman Kent of CIA. Here is Kent Snr with the “spookiest of spooks”, James Angleton. (Taken on Sherman Jnr’s living room floor.)

THIS MONDAY 30 MARCH, 2.30pm Georgetown University.

petercgrace.bsky.social@petercgrace.bsky.social · 4mo ago

BOOK TALK: Who were the professors who went to CIA in 1950 to reboot the Agency's strategic intelligence product? How did they feel about the requirement to provide warning and long-range estimates of global trends? Find out at Georgetown on Mon March 30 at 2.30pm.

A great end to the “UK tour” at @kcsi.uk last night. My thanks to Celia Parker-Vincent for moderating and Jessi Gilchrist and Mike Goodman for organising. Also caught up with the wonderful @joemaiolo.bsky.social Nice to be back, spent a lot of time at the the Maughan Library writing this book.

BOOK TALK: TOMORROW. My final talk in the UK on the Intelligence Intellectuals, how analysts dealt with imposter syndrome! All welcome. King's College London, 7pm. Register here: www.linkedin.com/safety/go?ur...

BOOK TALK: Who were the professors who went to CIA in 1950 to reboot the Agency's strategic intelligence product? How did they feel about the requirement to provide warning and long-range estimates of global trends? Find out at Georgetown on Mon March 30 at 2.30pm.

Thanks to Chris Moran for inviting me to talk to the social sciences faculty at the University of Warwick last night. Great opportunity to discuss the Intelligence Intellectuals and see Mark Phythian again.

Thanks to @camgeopolitics.bsky.social for a great evening talking about The Intelligence Intellectuals with the Cambridge Intelligence Seminar. Particular thanks to John Ranelagh, a kind and considerate host, and Corpus Christi for a lovely dinner and bed for the night.

Excited to be talking at the University of Warwick on Monday 23 March, regarding CIA’s adoption of social science into intelligence analysis in the early Cold War. #theintelligenceintellectuals warwick.ac.uk/about/strate...

Looking forward to talking at the Cambridge Intelligence Seminar in a fortnight. www.cfg.cam.ac.uk/events/dr-pe...

New on H-Sci-Med-Tech: Check out Joy Rohde (@umich.edu)’s review of Peter C. Grace (@universityofotago.bsky.social)’s book _The Intelligence Intellectuals: Social Scientists and the Making of the CIA_ pub 2026 @ Georgetown University Press #hstm Review available @hnetreviews.bsky.social

H-Net Reviews@hnetreviews.bsky.social · 7mo ago

New book review: Rohde on Grace, Peter C.: _Intelligence Intellectuals: Social Scientists and the Making of the CIA, The_. Geogetown University Press, 2026. Published by H-Sci-Med-Tech. Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/20137675

We were delighted to publish this fantastic review of @petercgrace.bsky.social's "The Intelligence Intellectuals" by Monica Robbins. You can find the full review at the link below - we think it's well worth a read! doi.org/10.1080/1833...

The intelligence intellectuals: Social scientists and the making of the CIA

Published in Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism (Ahead of Print, 2026)

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petercgrace.bsky.social@petercgrace.bsky.social · 5mo ago

REVIEW: Monica Robbins compares the kind of research academics do in the university with "strategic intelligence analysis [which is] is inherently messy, high-stakes, and subject to rapidly changing circumstances and incomplete information."

REVIEW: Monica Robbins compares the kind of research academics do in the university with "strategic intelligence analysis [which is] is inherently messy, high-stakes, and subject to rapidly changing circumstances and incomplete information."

An excellent review by Dr. Joy Rohde of Dr. Peter Grace's recent book "The Intelligence Intellectuals: Social Scientists and the Making of the CIA" from Georgetown University Press.