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The Black Door - Spies, Secret Intelligence and British Prime Ministers (Paperback)
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The Black Door - Spies, Secret Intelligence and British Prime Ministers (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 3 750
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The Black Door explores the evolving relationship between
successive British prime ministers and the intelligence agencies,
from Asquith's Secret Service Bureau to Cameron's National Security
Council. Intelligence can do a prime minister's dirty work. For
more than a century, secret wars have been waged directly from
Number 10. They have staved off conflict, defeats and British
decline through fancy footwork, often deceiving friend and foe
alike. Yet as the birth of the modern British secret service in
1909, prime ministers were strangers to the secret world -
sometimes with disastrous consequences. During the Second World
War, Winston Churchill oversaw a remarkable revolution in the
exploitation of intelligence, bringing it into the centre of
government. Chruchill's wartime regime also formed a school of
intelligence for future prime ministers, and its secret legacy has
endured. Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair and David Cameron all became
great enthusiasts for spies and special forces. Although Britain's
political leaders have often feigned ignorance about what one prime
minister called this 'strange underworld', some of the most daring
and controversial intelligence operations can be traced straight
back to Number 10.
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