The Resource Secret wars : one hundred years of British intelligence inside MI5 and MI6, Gordon Thomas
Secret wars : one hundred years of British intelligence inside MI5 and MI6, Gordon Thomas
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- Summary
- "Gordon Thomas has established himself as a leading expert on the intelligence community. He returns here on the one hundredth anniversaries of Britain's Security and Secret Intelligence Services to provide the definitive history of the famed MI5 and MI6." "All told, this is the story of two agencies led by men - and women - who are enigmatic, eccentric, and controversial, and who ruthlessly control their spies. Based on prodigious research and interviews with significant players from inside the British intelligence community, this is a rich and even delicious history packed with intrigue and information that only the author could have attained."--BOOK JACKET
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- xvii, 430 p.
- Contents
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- Directors of intelligence services
- Acronyms and agency names
- Prime sources
- Her Majesty's secret agent
- The flight of the falcon
- The fairy godmother's spies
- The enemy within the gate
- Ciphers and bugs
- The atom spies
- Moles between friends
- The winds of hate
- Partition to perdu
- Out of the shadows
- High expectations
- New targets
- Glasnost in the snow
- The bamboo curtain spies
- A new world: adjust or die
- Tango in the basement
- Route nine eleven
- The day their lives changed
- Back to the future
- For the moment
- A personal note
- Select bibliography
- Index
- Isbn
- 9780312379988
- Label
- Secret wars : one hundred years of British intelligence inside MI5 and MI6
- Title
- Secret wars
- Title remainder
- one hundred years of British intelligence inside MI5 and MI6
- Statement of responsibility
- Gordon Thomas
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Gordon Thomas has established himself as a leading expert on the intelligence community. He returns here on the one hundredth anniversaries of Britain's Security and Secret Intelligence Services to provide the definitive history of the famed MI5 and MI6." "All told, this is the story of two agencies led by men - and women - who are enigmatic, eccentric, and controversial, and who ruthlessly control their spies. Based on prodigious research and interviews with significant players from inside the British intelligence community, this is a rich and even delicious history packed with intrigue and information that only the author could have attained."--BOOK JACKET
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1933-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Thomas, Gordon
- Dewey number
- 327.1241
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Great Britain
- Great Britain
- Intelligence service
- Label
- Secret wars : one hundred years of British intelligence inside MI5 and MI6, Gordon Thomas
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 403-411) and index
- Contents
- Directors of intelligence services -- Acronyms and agency names -- Prime sources -- Her Majesty's secret agent -- The flight of the falcon -- The fairy godmother's spies -- The enemy within the gate -- Ciphers and bugs -- The atom spies -- Moles between friends -- The winds of hate -- Partition to perdu -- Out of the shadows -- High expectations -- New targets -- Glasnost in the snow -- The bamboo curtain spies -- A new world: adjust or die -- Tango in the basement -- Route nine eleven -- The day their lives changed -- Back to the future -- For the moment -- A personal note -- Select bibliography -- Index
- Control code
- 000043342185
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- xvii, 430 p.
- Isbn
- 9780312379988
- Isbn Type
- (hbk.)
- Label
- Secret wars : one hundred years of British intelligence inside MI5 and MI6, Gordon Thomas
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 403-411) and index
- Contents
- Directors of intelligence services -- Acronyms and agency names -- Prime sources -- Her Majesty's secret agent -- The flight of the falcon -- The fairy godmother's spies -- The enemy within the gate -- Ciphers and bugs -- The atom spies -- Moles between friends -- The winds of hate -- Partition to perdu -- Out of the shadows -- High expectations -- New targets -- Glasnost in the snow -- The bamboo curtain spies -- A new world: adjust or die -- Tango in the basement -- Route nine eleven -- The day their lives changed -- Back to the future -- For the moment -- A personal note -- Select bibliography -- Index
- Control code
- 000043342185
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- xvii, 430 p.
- Isbn
- 9780312379988
- Isbn Type
- (hbk.)
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