Ethical Implication of Doing Anthropology of Military Intelligence

グンジテキ　インテリジェンス　ノ　ジンルイガク　ノ　シャテイ　ト　リンリ

イケダ, ミツホ

Ikeda, Mitsuho

インテリジェンス（諜報）

軍事科学

研究倫理

ELSI

military

intelligence

military science

research ethics

Ethical Legal Social Implications (ELSI)

The word and concept of military intelligence (MI), has appeared from the end of the World WarII even though actual operations of military intelligence among both the Allies and the Axis had started from end of 1920s. In this paper the author challenges to establish theoretical framework of the relations between military intelligence and ethnological knowledge in not only the time of those days but the present time. For clearing our mind set on “collaborations” between war operations and ethnological knowledge, the author classified three types of collaboration; (i) Positive collaboration, (ii) Oxymoronic coloration or Contradictive collaboration, and (iii) Neutral or Value-free collaboration. In the last section of this paper for scrutinizing in future research, the author indicated and exemplified two research subjects, the Operation Paperclip that U.S military had recruited ex-Nazi scientists for developing of post-war military sciences and the ODESSA connection of the ex-Nazi war criminals transferring to New World continent. To avert epistemological confusion between amoral intelligent facts and our moral disturbance of confronting with warfare atrocities, we need urgent establishment of academic arena where scientists can talk on anthropology of MI from the perspective of the Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications (ELSI).