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MI6: British Secret Intelligence Service Operations, 1909-1945 (Hardcover)
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MI6: British Secret Intelligence Service Operations, 1909-1945 (Hardcover)
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Written by the renowned expert Nigel West, this book exposes the
operations of Britain's overseas intelligence-gathering
organisation, the famed Secret Intelligence Service, MI6, and
traces its origins back to its inception in 1909. In this
meticulously researched account, its activities and structure are
described in detail, using original secret service documents. The
main body of the book concerns MI6's operations during the Second
World War, and includes some remarkable successes and failures,
including how MI6 financed a glamorous confidant of the German
secret service; how a suspected French traitor was murdered by
mistake; how Franco's military advisors were bribed to keep Spain
out of the war; how members of the Swedish secret police were
blackmailed into helping the British war effort; how a sabotage
operation in neutral Tangiers enabled the Allied landings in North
Africa to proceed undetected; and how Britain's generals ignored
the first ULTRA decrypts because MI6 said that the information had
come from a well-placed source called BONIFACE'. In this new
edition, operations undertaken by almost all of MI6's overseas
stations are recounted in extraordinary detail. They will fascinate
both the professional intelligence officer and the general reader.
The book includes organisational charts to illustrate MI6's
internal structure and its wartime network of overseas stations.
Backed by numerous interviews with intelligence officers and their
agents, this engaging inside story throws light on many wartime
incidents that had previously remained unexplained.
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