Espionage, security, and intelligence in Britain, 1945-1970
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Espionage, security, and intelligence in Britain, 1945-1970
(Documents in contemporary history)
Manchester University Press, 1998
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- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 238-248) and index
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: hbk ISBN 9780719049552
Description
In postwar Britain, the secret services were more anxious to remain in the shadows than those of any other Western country. This volume suggests that, although discreet, they were not marginal or peripheral. They were, instead, central to British policy making and implementation. Human espionage, signals intelligence, internal security, counter-subversion, special operations and "black" propoganda were all brought to bear on Britain's problems, and were co-ordinated at the highest level. Drawing on new sources, only recently declassified in London and Washington, Richard J. Aldrich offers an authoritative documentation on aspects of government that have hitherto been poorly understood. These issues are set in a broad context, demonstrating their impact upon the direction of the Cold War, nuclear weapons policy, decolonization and Britain's relations with major allies.
Table of Contents
- Part I The secret intelligence organizations: the secret intelligence service (MI6)
- signals intelligence. Part II Scientific and atomic intelligence: scientific and technical intelligence
- defectors from the east
- atomic intelligence. Part III Service intelligence and "spy-flights": service intelligence
- "spy-flights" and aerial reconnaissance. Part IV Management: a world of committees. Part V Security: MI5 (the security service)
- moles and defectors from the West
- positive vetting and official secrecy
- intelligence and the "End of Empire". Part VI Special operations and "black propaganda": clandestine or "black" propaganda
- special operations against Russia in peace
- special operations against Russia in a future war
- special operations in the Third World. Part VII Liason and deception: co-operation with foreign powers
- deception.
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: pbk ISBN 9780719049569
Description
This book takes the concept of postmemory, developed in Holocaust studies, and applies it for the first time to novels by contemporary British writers. Focusing on war fiction, Alden builds upon current scholarship on historical fiction and memory studies, and extends the field by exploring how the use of historical research within fiction illuminates the ways in which we remember and recreate the past.
Using postmemory to unlock both the transgenerational aspects of the novels discussed and the development of historiographic metafiction, Alden provides a ground-breaking analysis of the nature and potential of contemporary historical fiction. By examining the patterns and motivations behind authors' translations of material from the historical record into fiction, Alden also asks to what extent such writing is, necessarily, metafictional. Ultimately, this study offers an updated answer to the question that historical fiction has always posed: what can fiction do with history that history cannot? -- .
Table of Contents
- Part I The secret intelligence organizations: the secret intelligence service (MI6)
- signals intelligence. Part II Scientific and atomic intelligence: scientific and technical intelligence
- defectors from the east
- atomic intelligence. Part III Service intelligence and "spy-flights": service intelligence
- "spy-flights" and aerial reconnaissance. Part IV Management: a world of committees. Part V Security: MI5 (the security service)
- moles and defectors from the West
- positive vetting and official secrecy
- intelligence and the "End of Empire". Part VI Special operations and "black propaganda": clandestine or "black" propaganda
- special operations against Russia in peace
- special operations against Russia in a future war
- special operations in the Third World. Part VII Liason and deception: co-operation with foreign powers
- deception.
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