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In Spies We Trust - The Story of Western Intelligence (Paperback)
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In Spies We Trust - The Story of Western Intelligence (Paperback)
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In Spies We Trust reveals the full story of the Anglo-American
intelligence relationship - ranging from the deceits of World War I
to the mendacities of 9/11 - for the first time. Why did we ever
start trusting spies? It all started a hundred years ago. First we
put our faith in them to help win wars, then we turned against the
bloodshed and expense, and asked our spies instead to deliver peace
and security. By the end of World War II, Britain and America were
cooperating effectively to that end. At its peak in the 1940s and
1950s, the 'special intelligence relationship' contributed to
national and international security in what was an Anglo-American
century. But from the 1960s this 'special relationship' went into
decline. Britain weakened, American attitudes changed, and the fall
of the Soviet Union dissolved the fear that bound London and
Washington together. A series of intelligence scandals along the
way further eroded public confidence. Yet even in these years, the
US offered its old intelligence partner a vital gift: congressional
attempts to oversee the CIA in the 1970s encouraged subsequent
moves towards more open government in Britain and beyond. So which
way do we look now? And what are the alternatives to the
British-American intelligence relationship that held sway in the
West for so much of the twentieth century? Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones
shows that there are a number - the most promising of which,
astonishingly, remain largely unknown to the Anglophone world.
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