The defence of the realm: the authorized history of MI5
This book reveals the precise role of the Security Service in 20th-century British history, from its foundation by Captain Kell of the British Army in October 1909, through two world wars, up to and including its present roles in counter-espionage and counter-terrorism.
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| Summary: | This book reveals the precise role of the Security Service in 20th-century British history, from its foundation by Captain Kell of the British Army in October 1909, through two world wars, up to and including its present roles in counter-espionage and counter-terrorism. |
| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | XXIII, 1032 p., [24] p. of plates Ill. 25 cm |
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| adam_text | Contents
List of Illustrations
viii
Foreword by the Director General of the Security Service
xv
Preface
xix
Acknowledgements
xxii
Section A
The German Threat, 1909-1919
Introduction: The Origins of the Secret Service Bureau
3
1
Spies of the Kaiser : Counter-Espionage before the First
World War
29
z
The First World War: Part
1 -
The Failure of German
Espionage
53
3
The First World War: Part
г
-
The Rise of
Counter-Subversion
84
Section
В
Between the Wars
Introduction: MI
5
and its Staff
-
Survival and Revival
113
1
The Red Menace in the
1920s 139
2
The Red Menace in the
1930s 160
3
British Fascism and the Nazi Threat
186
Section
С
The Second World War
Introduction: The Security Service and its Wartime Staff:
From Prison to Palace
217
1
Deception
241
vi
CONTENTS
г
Soviet
Penetration
and the Communist Party
2.63
3
Victory z%3
Section
D
The Early Cold War
Introduction: The Security Service and its Staff in the Early
Cold War 32-1
1
Counter-Espionage and Soviet Penetration: Igor Gouzenko
and Kim Philby
34^
2
Zionist Extremists and Counter-Terrorism
352.
3
VENONA and the Special Relationships with the United
States and Australia
3 67
4
Vetting, Atom Spies and Protective Security
382
5
The Communist Party of Great Britain, the Trade
Unions and the Labour Party
400
6
The Hunt for the Magnificent Five
420
7
The End of Empire: Part
1 442
8
The End of Empire: Part
2 462
9
The Macmillan Government: Spy Scandals and the
Profumo
Affair
483
10
FLUENCY: Paranoid Tendencies
503
n
The Wilson Government 1964-1970: Security, Subversion
and Wiggery-Pokery
522
Section
E
The Later Cold War
Introduction: The Security Service and its Staff in the Later
Cold War
547
1
Operation FOOT and Counter-Espionage in the
1970s 565
2
The Heath Government and Subversion
587
3
Counter-Terrorism and Protective Security in the Early
19 70s 600
4
The Wilson Plot
627
5
Counter-Terrorism and Protective Security in the
Later
1970s 644
6
The Callaghan Government and Subversion
65e
7
The Thatcher Government and Subversion
670
CONTENTS
VU
8 Counter-Terrorism
and Protective Security in the Early
1980s 683
9
Counter-Espionage in the Last Decade of the Cold War
706
10
Counter-Terrorism and Protective Security in the
Later
1980s 734
11
The Origins of the Security Service Act
753
Section
F
After the Cold War
1
The Transformation of the Security Service
771
2
Holy Terror
799
3
After
9/11 813
Conclusion: The First Hundred Years of the Security Service
831
Appendix
1:
Directors and Director Generals,
1909-2009 853
Appendix
2:
Security Service Strength,
1909-2009 854
Appendix
3 :
Nomenclature and Responsibilities of Security
Service Branches/Divisions, 1914-1994
855
Notes
865
Bibliography
989
Index
1005
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