The Cloak and the Blue Beret: Limitations on Intelligence in UN Peacekeeping
The Cloak and the Blue Beret: Limitations on Intelligence in UN Peacekeeping
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斗篷与蓝色贝雷帽：联合国维和行动中情报的局限性
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1999
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A. Dorn
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1960年，有人建议在联合国词汇中禁止使用"情报“一词。.事实上，联合国继续回避这个词的商业使用，因为它与非法或秘密活动有关，如间谍活动，盗窃和歪曲，联合国不会（也不应该）参与其中。尽管如此，情报，就其纯粹意义而言，即与安全有关的经过处理的公开和秘密信息，是联合国维持和平的一个重要组成部分，联合国文职和军事工作人员也承认这一点。维持和平行动（PKO）有时在其结构中包括“信息单位”或“军事信息部门”（MIB）。因此，联合国刻意回避了“情报”一词，尽管这些单位的一些工作人员私下里称自己为“安全情报人员”，许多人来自各种专业军事和警察情报组织。如果联合国对情报采取更直接的方法，并拥有更强有力的任务来收集信息和改进其信息收集系统，联合国维和行动历史上的许多失败本来是可以避免的。这份清单包括遥远过去的爆发，如1950年的朝鲜战争（联合国朝鲜问题委员会目睹但没有预见到），以及最近的爆发，如西南非裔人民组织游击队入侵纳米比亚（1989年），伊拉克对纳米比亚的袭击，
In 1960 it was suggested that the word ``intelligence’’ should be banned from the lexicon of the United Nations. . Indeed, the UN continues to shy away from of¢cial use of the term because of its association with illegal or undercover activities, such as spying, theft, and distortion, with which the UN would not (and should not) be involved. Nevertheless, intelligence, in its pure sense of processed information, both open and secret, relating to security, is an essential part of UN peacekeeping, and is recognized as such by UN staff, both civilian and military. Peacekeeping operations (PKOs) have sometimes included ``information units’’ or ``Military Information Branches’’ (MIBs) in their structures. Thus, the UN has of¢cially sidestepped the term ``intelligence,’’ though some staff members of these units unof¢cially called themselves intelligence of¢cers, and many have been drawn from the ranks of various professional military and police intelligence organizations. Many failures in the history of UN ¢eld operations might have been avoided had the UN taken a more forthright approach to intelligence and possessed a stronger mandate to gather information and improve its information-gathering systems. The list includes outbreaks from the distant past, such as the Korean War of 1950 (witnessed but not foreseen by the UN Commission on Korea), and more recent ones, such as the incursion of SWAPO guerrillas into Namibia (1989), the Iraqi attack on