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GCHQ - The Uncensored Story of Britain's Most Secret Intelligence Agency (Paperback)
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GCHQ - The Uncensored Story of Britain's Most Secret Intelligence Agency (Paperback)
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The gripping inside story of the last unknown realm of the British
secret service: GCHQ (Government Communication Headquarters). GCHQ
is the successor to the famous Bletchley Park wartime code-breaking
organisation and is the largest and most secretive intelligence
organisation in the country. During the war, it commanded more
staff than MI5 and MI6 combined and has produced a number of
intelligence triumphs, as well as some notable failures. Since the
end of the Cold War, it has played a pivotal role in shaping
Britain's secret state. Still, we know almost nothing about it. In
this ground-breaking new book, Richard Aldrich traces GCHQ's
evolvement from a wartime code-breaking operation based in the
Bedfordshire countryside, staffed by eccentric crossword puzzlers,
to one of the world leading espionage organisations. It is packed
full of dramatic spy stories that shed fresh light on Britain's
role in the Cold War - from the secret tunnels dug beneath Vienna
and Berlin to tap Soviet phone lines, and daring submarine missions
to gather intelligence from the Soviet fleet, to the notorious case
of Geoffrey Pine, one of the most damaging moles ever recruited by
the Soviets inside British intelligence. The book reveals for the
first time how GCHQ operators based in Cheltenham affected the
outcome of military confrontations in far-flung locations such as
Indonesia and Malaya, and exposes the shocking case of three GGHQ
workers who were killed in an infamous shootout with terrorists
while working undercover in Turkey. Today's GCHQ struggles with
some of the most difficult issues of our time. A leading force of
the state's security efforts against militant terrorist
organisations like Al-Qaeda, they are also involved in fundamental
issues that will mould the future of British society. Compelling
and revelatory, Aldrich's book is the crucial missing link in
Britain's intelligence history.
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