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  • At Her Majestys Secret Service

    The Chiefs of Britains Intelligence Service, MI6

    by Nigel West ...
    In August 1909, a kindly, balding, figure named Mansfield Smith-Cumming was summoned to London by Admiral Alexander Bethell, Director of Naval Intelligence. He was to assume the inaugural position of Chief – more famously known as 'C – of what has become ... Read more

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  • GCHQ

    The Secret Wireless War, 1900–1986

    by Nigel West ...
    The go-to intelligence expert and author of MI6 has "provided the clearest review of GCHQ and its predecessors in a publicly available book" ( Firetrench).Signal intelligence is the most secret, and most misunderstood, weapon in the modern espionage arsenal. As a reliable source of information, it is unequalled, which is why Government Communications Headquarters, almost universally known as GCHQ, ... Read more

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  • MI5: British Security Service Operations, 1909–1945

    The True Story of the Most Secret counter-espionage Organisation in the World

    by Nigel West ...
    The author of The Kompromat Conspiracy shares the history of MI5, from its beginnings in 1909 to 1945 and its role in the Second World War.MI5 is arguably the most secret and misunderstood of all the British government departments. Its enigmatic title—much more than its proper name, the Security Service—stands in the public mind for the dark world of the secret services. In reality it has a very ... Read more

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  • Hitler's Trojan Horse

    The Fall of the Abwehr, 1943–1945

    by Nigel West ...
    "Nigel West has presented the most complete account of the Abwehr to date. It will serve as a valuable reference work." — Studies in IntelligenceAs the Second World War progressed and defeat for Hitler's Third Reich in all theatres became ever more certain, the tight Abwehr network, built so effectively by its head, Admiral Canaris, began to unravel. High-level defections to the Allies and bitter ... Read more

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  • MI6: British Secret Intelligence Service Operations, 1909–1945

    by Nigel West ...
    The author of GCHG describes covert missions that "are worthy of spy fiction, but the entire book is utterly fascinating and informative. Brilliant!" (Books Monthly)Written by the renowned expert Nigel West, this book exposes the operations of Britain's overseas intelligence-gathering organization, the famed Secret Intelligence Service, MI6, and traces its origins back to its inception in 1909. In ... Read more

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  • Double Cross in Cairo

    The True Story of the Spy Who Turned the Tide of War in the Middle East

    by Nigel West ...
    As part of the infamous Double Cross operation, Jewish double agent Renato Levi proved to be one of the Allies' most devastating weapons in World War Two. ln 1941, with the help of Ml6, Levi built an extensive spy-ring in North Africa and the Middle East. But, most remarkably, it was entirely fictitious. This network of imagined informants peddled dangerously false misinformation to Levi's ... Read more

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  • Spies Who Changed History

    The Greatest Spies & Agents of the 20th Century

    by Nigel West ...
    Spies have made an extraordinary impact on the history of the 20th Century, but fourteen in particular can be said to have been demonstrably important. As one might expect, few are household names, and it is only with the benefit of recently declassified files that we can now fully appreciate the nature of their contribution. The criteria for selection have been the degree to which each can now be ... Read more

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  • Secret War

    The Story of SOE, Britain's Wartime Sabotage Organisation

    by Nigel West ...
    The author of The Kompromat Conspiracy reveals the truth behind Great Britain's secret World War II group.What did SOE really achieve during the Second World War? Why were so many agents parachuted into enemy hands? Who chose to back Communist guerrillas in Yugoslavia, Hungary, Romania, Albania, Greece and Malaya in preference to other anti-Axis movements? In this newly revised edition, Nigel West ... Read more

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  • Soviet and Nazi Defectors

    Counter-Intelligence in WW2 and the Cold War

    by Nigel West ...
    "… a valuable introduction to the role of defectors in counterintelligence operations and a fine contribution to intelligence literature." -Studies in Intelligence A well-informed defector is the most dangerous counter-intelligence commodity because it takes a spy to catch a spy. Very occasionally, an agent, especially a mole or an intelligence professional, will make a mistake and incriminate ... Read more

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  • China's Spies

    Beijing’s Espionage Offensive

    by Nigel West ...
    “China’s Spies is a necessary alarm for those who still nurse delusions of a rosy partnership with a benign rising power.”– The NYMAS ReviewWhile many of President Xia Jinping’s increasingly aggressive foreign policies, manifested by expansion into the South China Sea, trade confrontation with Australia, and political suppression in Hong Kong, have become obvious, there has been a covert dimension ... Read more

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  • Cold War Counterfeit Spies

    Tales of Espionage; Genuine or Bogus?

    by Nigel West ...
    The Cold War, with its air of mutual fear and distrust and the shadowy world of spies and secret agents, gave publishers the chance to produce countless stories of espionage, treachery and deception. What Nigel West has discovered is that the most egregious deceptions were in fact the stories themselves. In this remarkable investigation into the claims of many who portrayed themselves as key ... Read more

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  • Double Agent Celery

    MI5's Crooked Hero

    by Carolinda Witt ...
    This personal biography reveals the incredible true story of the British secret agent who posed as a Nazi spy during WWII.With Britain braced for a German invasion, MI5 recruited Walter Dicketts, a former officer of the Royal Naval Air Force—and a known con artist—as a double agent. Codenamed Celery, Dicketts was sent to Lisbon with the mission of persuading the Germans he was a traitor and then ... Read more

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