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Liaison is clearly central to intelligence. More widely, when occurring on broader bases, it is also clearly a major contributor to the overall process of the globalization of intelligence. As US intelligence scholar Loch K. Johnson has remarked:
By combining their intelligence efforts with those of their allies, nations are able to trim intelligence costs and compensate for gaps in their own surveillance; yet fear that the other service has been penetrated by a common foe, and an awareness that the ally (however close) is likely to have some divergent objectives, keep the romance at arm’s length.
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See also HMG, Emergency Preparedness, London: Cabinet Office, 2005, pp. 24–33; ‘Civil Emergency Planning’, NATO, January 2010; ‘European Civil Protection’, EU, January 2010.
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Svendsen, A.D.M. (2012). Unpacking Intelligence and Liaison. In: Understanding the Globalization of Intelligence. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137283313_1
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