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BOOK REVIEWS (1991) 24 ANZJ Crim Within security conscious 'democratic' bureaucracies, the classification of official documents serves three purposes. First, it ensures that the public is denied access to the information it would require to perform the duties of the bureaucracy, thus ensuring the need for the institution's perpetual reproduction. Secondly, the enemies of the state, both internal and external, are also denied the information. Thirdly, only by (unnecessarily) classifying their work can junior and middle ranking officials regularly ensure that they are noticed by their more senior colleagues. All three explanations lead to an extraordinary amount of over-classification in foreign policy establishments and intelligence agencies. The work of the private researcher and the 'law enforcement practitioner' is, therefore, made all the more difficult and frustrating. Prunckun's guide is limited in its capacity to overcome this foremost problem in intelligence research. The inquirer into the word of intelligence must rely heavily on leaked information, both intentional (strategic ministerialleaking) and unintentional (disaffected public servants, espionage). Otherwise they must depend on the extent to which the system is open to public scrutiny. The value of Prunckun's book could therefore have been increased with an additional chapter comparing the public's relative access
Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology – SAGE
Published: Dec 1, 1991
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