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Defence Intelligence and the Cold War - Britain's Joint Intelligence Bureau 1945-1964 (Hardcover)
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Defence Intelligence and the Cold War - Britain's Joint Intelligence Bureau 1945-1964 (Hardcover)
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During the Second World War British intelligence provided
politicians and soldiers with invaluable knowledge. Britain was
determined to maintain this advantage following victory, but the
wartime machinery was uneconomical, unwieldy, and unsuitable for
peace. Drawing on oral testimony, international archives, and
private papers, Defence Intelligence and the Cold War provides the
first history of the hitherto little-known organisation designed to
preserve and advance British capability in military and
military-related intelligence for the Cold War: the Joint
Intelligence Bureau (JIB). Headed by General Eisenhower's wartime
intelligence man, Major General Kenneth Strong, the JIB was central
to the mission to spy on and understand the Soviet Union, and the
broader Communist world. It did so from its creation in 1946 to its
end in 1964, when it formed a central component of the new Defence
Intelligence Staff. This volume reveals hitherto hidden aspects of
Britain's mission to map the Soviet Union for nuclear war, the
struggle to understand and contain the economies of the USSR,
China, and North Korea in peace and during the Korean War, and the
urgent challenge to understand the nature and scale of the Soviet
bomber and missile threat in the 1950s and 1960s. The JIB's
dedicated work in these fields won it the support of some
politicians and military men, but the enmity of others who saw the
centralised organisation as a threat to traditional military
intelligence. The intelligence officers of the JIB waged Cold War
not only with Communist adversaries but also in Whitehall.
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