The hidden hand : Britain, America, and Cold War secret intelligence

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Title:

Author:

Aldrich, Richard J. (Richard James), 1961-

ISBN:

9781585672745

Personal Author:

Aldrich, Richard J. (Richard James), 1961-

Publication Information:

Woodstock, NY : Overlook Press, 2002, c2001.

Physical Description:

xv, 733 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.

General Note:

Originally published: London : John Murray, 2001.

Contents:

From World War to Cold War, 1941-1945. Fighting with the Russians ; A Cold War in Whitehall ; Secret Service at the war's end: SIS and the CIA -- The Cold War gets going, 1945-1949. MI5: defectors, spy-trials and subversion ; The counter-offensive: from CRD to IRD ; The fifth column of freedom: Britain embraces liberation ; Liberation or provocation? Special operations in the Eastern bloc ; The front line: intelligence in Germany and Austria ; Operation Dick Tracy: air intelligence in London and Washington ; The failure of atomic intelligence ; GCHQ: signals intelligence looks east ; Defeat in Palestine -- The Cold War turns hot, 1950-1956. The Korean War ; Cold war fighting in Asia ; The struggle to contain liberation ; The CIA's federalist operation: ACUE and the European movement ; Atomic deception and atomic intelligence ; At the coal face: intelligence-gathering ; Moles and defectors: The impact of Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean ; At home and abroad: the information research department ; Defeat in the Middle East: Iran and Suez ; Victory in Malaya -- The Cold War widens, 1957-1963. Submarine, spy-flights and shoot-downs: intelligence after Suez ; Missiles and mergers: strategic intelligence ; Cyprus: the last foothold ; Working groups: special operations in the Third World ; The hidden hand exposed: from the Bay of Pigs to Profumo.

Abstract:

Paranoia with respect to Russia raged in the wake of World War II, just as Churchill had foreseen: fear of a "nuclear Pearl Harbor" and the growing challenge of political stability in Europe gripped the Western world. The advent of new and terrifying weapons of war and annihilation-atomic bombs, biological and chemical weapons, and intercontinental missiles-contributed to a pervasive atmosphere of menace in the US, Britain, and all the countries of Western Europe. And in the thick of this cold war, it was the Secret Service and its intelligence operations that took action, that was capable of creating early warning systems and making inroads in the years of the cold war. It was a time of what Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. called "the rise of a religion of secrecy," a time that fostered the clandestine relationships and treachery of such infamous spies as Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, Klaus Fuchs, and Kim Philby. In what one-time British Ambassador Richard Seitz calls "a superlative record of Anglo-American intelligence collection, cooperation, and competition," Richard Aldrich reveals startling new information about the relationship between Britain and the US during the Cold War: the extent of the US and British covert operation successes-notably in Iran and Guatemala-as well as many costly debacles and follies. Using the formidable mass of material recently declassified by the US, as well as many files released by the British, Aldrich details the "special relationship" of cooperation between the British and the US, as well as the rampant rancor and suspicion that followed public amity and cooperation in the fight against Nazi Germany and Japan.

Corporate Subject:

United States. Central Intelligence Agency

United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

Great Britain. MI6

Subject Term:

Intelligence service -- History -- 20th century.

Cold war.

Inlichtingendiensten.

Koude Oorlog.

Geographic Term:

7.150.

4.240.

Electronic Access:

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Paranoia with respect to Russia raged in the wake of World War II, just as Churchill had foreseen: fear of a "nuclear Pearl Harbor" and the growing challenge of political stability in Europe gripped the Western world. The advent of new and terrifying weapons of war and annihilation-atomic bombs, biological and chemical weapons, and intercontinental missiles-contributed to a pervasive atmosphere of menace in the US, Britain, and all the countries of Western Europe. And in the thick of this cold war, it was the Secret Service and its intelligence operations that took action, that was capable of creating early warning systems and making inroads in the years of the cold war. It was a time of what Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. called "the rise of a religion of secrecy," a time that fostered the clandestine relationships and treachery of such infamous spies as Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, Klaus Fuchs, and Kim Philby.

In what one-time British Ambassador Richard Seitz calls "a superlative record of Anglo-American intelligence collection, cooperation, and competition," noted author Richard Aldrich reveals startling new information about the relationship between Britain and the US during the Cold War: the extent of the US and British covert operation successes-notably in Iran and Guatemala-as well as many costly debacles and follies.

Using the formidable mass of material recently declassified by the US, as well as many files released by the British, Aldrich details the "special relationship" of cooperation between the British and the US, as well as the rampant rancor and suspicion that followed public amity and cooperation in the fight against Nazi Germany and Japan. This is a gripping and highly readable history.