Identifying the Traitor Among Us: The Rhetoric of Espionage and Secrecy

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http://etd.library.pitt.edu/ETD/available/etd-07282003-132723/unrestricted/karentdiss.pdf

This study approaches espionage as a knowledge-producing and knowledge-disseminating practice similar to knowledge practices such as science. The study uses investigative tools drawn from rhetoric of  cience studies and applies them to intelligence and, particularly, counterintelligence work. The result provides new insight into the  nderdetermination of evidence, the interdependence of disparate  iscourses, and the role of espionage in American culture .