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Now reincarnated as the Global History of Terrorism Archive at the University of St Andrews, the collection serves as a resource for researchers investigating political, social and security trends across a wide geographical arena during a crucial historical period.\nLike all archives, the collection was designed to serve the interests of the institution that created it. I was myself responsible for assembling much of the Asia-Pacific material, and I thought it would be helpful to explain the collection’s origins and purpose so that future researchers are better able to evaluate its usefulness.\nControl Risks was founded in 1975 as a team within the Hogg Robinson insurance company in London and became independent following a management buyout in 1982. Its original focus was on crisis management, with a speciality in helping companies respond to kidnap and ransom cases. From there it moved naturally to preventative security advice. From the beginning, its geographical scope was worldwide. The company’s first international office was in Washington DC and this was soon followed by another in Australia. Its clients included international companies based in all three countries as well as continental Europe.\nThe nature of Control Risks’ business meant that consultants could be called to respond to client emergencies anywhere in the world, often at short notice. To support them, the company began to develop its own information resources. In 1977 two of the company’s founders, Simon Adamsdale and Arish Turle, were detained in Colombia, while working on a kidnap case. Having been accused of complicity with the kidnappers, they were held in Bogotá’s Modelo jail for more than ten weeks before being exonerated and finally released without charge. They put their time to good use, planning the future structure of Control Risks, including the development of what became Control Risks Information Services (CRIS).\nThe earliest beginnings of CRIS therefore date back to the late 1970s. Roger Meares, one of the Control Risks Directors, was recruited to lead it. For a while, Roger was distracted, working on kidnap cases. He initially employed a part-time researcher and two other managers (Giles Clotworthy and Richard Baker), followed by three new researchers, Sally Bates, Naomi Raison and Chloe Palamountain.  In 1980, Roger hired Hans Neubroch to serve as the first Managing Editor, together with Dr Peter Janke who became Head of Research. Both Hans and Peter had previously worked at the Institute for the Study of Conflict (ISC), a late Cold War think-tank. Peter in turn recruited two former ISC researchers, James Anderson and Richard Sim, and then a third researcher, Edward Grubb. I joined in 1983 as Richard’s successor.\nThis was of course the pre-Internet age and we depended on the print media for most of our newsgathering. Sources included the main British broadsheets (‘papers of record’) which at that time still maintained a distinguished network of foreign correspondents, as well as Le Monde, Le Soir and El Pais. An Associated Press teleprinter (known colloquially as the ‘bog roll’) kept us up to date with breaking news. We also subscribed to the BBC Summary of World Broadcasts and the US-based Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) as well as a number of regional publications. In my case, these included the Far Eastern Economic Review, India Today, the Japan Times Weekly, and monthly publications from Pakistan and the Philippines.\nTo supplement printed sources, we drew on a network of regionally based ‘stringers’ (in journalistic parlance) as well as the advice of mainly UK-based academics with whom we could test our interpre","cbCaihund2T7DWG2","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaihund2T7DWG2","docx",47181,"English","# Control Risks and the origins of the Global History of Terrorism Archive\n## Email discovery and archive purpose\n## Company history and creation of information services\n## Pre-Internet research methods and sources\n## Daily workflow, briefing products, and reporting cycles","[{\"question\":\"What is the relationship between Control Risks and the Global History of Terrorism Archive?\",\"answer\":\"The archive is described as the reincarnation of an information collection compiled by Control Risks, later hosted as the Global History of Terrorism Archive at the University of St Andrews.\"},{\"question\":\"How did the researchers gather news and sources before the internet?\",\"answer\":\"They relied mainly on print media such as British broadsheets and European outlets, supplemented by an Associated Press teleprinter, broadcast summaries, and regional publications, plus advice from academics and regionally based stringers.\"},{\"question\":\"What were the main products and reporting formats used by CRIS?\",\"answer\":\"CRIS operated a monthly Subscription Service (“Briefing Book”) with reports, chronologies, and backgrounders covering many countries, plus periodic longer analytical reports and an annual global review of political violence trends.\"}]","Control Risks and the origins of the Global History of Terrorism Archive - John Bray | DOCX",1788331366]