The Battle of Stalingrad, Biological Weapons, and the Expert Witness: Challenging Single-Source Evidence in Intelligence Studies

摘要

The problems associated with the researching of intelligence-related issues have been well documented. The ever-growing and increasingly diverse community of academics immersed in the study of intelligence share a range of common problems related not just to access to material, but also the verification of that material when it is obtained.2 Indeed, the relative precariousness of much of the work in the field of Intelligence Studies is well recognized. Epistemologically, one of an academic's most significant challenges is attempting to verify potentially valuable material that has come from a limited or fragmentary range of sources.3 Although the majority of researchers working in the field of Intelligence Studies trained