Countering a technological Berlin tunnel: North Korean operatives, helicopters and intelligence in the Cold War illicit arms trade, 1981-1986/
SALISBURY Daniel
Countering a technological Berlin tunnel: North Korean operatives, helicopters and intelligence in the Cold War illicit arms trade, 1981-1986/ Daniel Salisbury - 2022
This article considers the relationship between intelligence and the arms trade by examining North Korea's procurement of 86 Hughes helicopters in the 1980s. Using recently declassified documents, the article contextualises the case using US intelligence assessments of North Korea's procurement, and considers the role of the DPRK's diplomats in Berlin, and the Western powers' response. This history provides insights into the use of intelligence operatives for arms procurement, the role of intelligence agencies in monitoring the illicit arms trade, and the challenges in collection, analysis and acting on the intelligence surrounding arms trafficking.
US INTELLIGENCE--INTELLIGENCE, ARMS TRADE AND NORTH KOREA'S NETWORKS--NORTH KOREA'S COLD WAR ILLICIT PROCUREMENT--EUROPE AND THE COLD WAR ILLICIT ARMS TRADE--THE HUGHES DEAL--BENIGN HELICOPTERS--STRATEGIC IMPLICATIONS--TECHNOLOGICAL BERLIN TUNNEL--THE ROLE OF THE NORTH KOREAN MISSION IN THE DDR--COUNTERING THE BERLIN NETWORK--CHALLENGES OF INVESTIGATION, JURISDICTION AND IMMUNITY--EXPELLING THE NORTH KOREANS--SYMBOLIC PNG--NORTH KOREA
Countering a technological Berlin tunnel: North Korean operatives, helicopters and intelligence in the Cold War illicit arms trade, 1981-1986/ Daniel Salisbury - 2022
This article considers the relationship between intelligence and the arms trade by examining North Korea's procurement of 86 Hughes helicopters in the 1980s. Using recently declassified documents, the article contextualises the case using US intelligence assessments of North Korea's procurement, and considers the role of the DPRK's diplomats in Berlin, and the Western powers' response. This history provides insights into the use of intelligence operatives for arms procurement, the role of intelligence agencies in monitoring the illicit arms trade, and the challenges in collection, analysis and acting on the intelligence surrounding arms trafficking.
US INTELLIGENCE--INTELLIGENCE, ARMS TRADE AND NORTH KOREA'S NETWORKS--NORTH KOREA'S COLD WAR ILLICIT PROCUREMENT--EUROPE AND THE COLD WAR ILLICIT ARMS TRADE--THE HUGHES DEAL--BENIGN HELICOPTERS--STRATEGIC IMPLICATIONS--TECHNOLOGICAL BERLIN TUNNEL--THE ROLE OF THE NORTH KOREAN MISSION IN THE DDR--COUNTERING THE BERLIN NETWORK--CHALLENGES OF INVESTIGATION, JURISDICTION AND IMMUNITY--EXPELLING THE NORTH KOREANS--SYMBOLIC PNG--NORTH KOREA