Espionage, Intelligence & Espionage, World 

After 1945, Western capitals were dominated by the fear of a Nuclear Pearl Harbor. Atomic bombs, new biological and chemical weapons, and ballistic rockets such as the V-2 against which there was no defence, combined to create an atmosphere of deep menace.
The urgent need for better warning systems allowed the Western intelligence community to grow to unprecedented size and power. Meanwhile, under the precarious ceiling of nuclear deterrence, London, Washington, Moscow and Peking all sought new ways to play out their struggle.
For these too they turned to the secret services, who developed further the clandestine operations evolved in the Second World War, such as underground armies, radio warfare, economic destabilization and cultural subversion.  

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.  

Contents


Historians of Secret Service and their Enemies......................................P 1

PART I FROM WORLD WAR TO COLD WAR, 1941-1945...........................P 17
1. Fighting with the Russians..................................................................P 19
2. A Cold War in Whitehall......................................................................P 43
3. Secret Service at the War's End: SIS and the CIA..................................P 64

PART II THE COLD WAR GETS GOING, 1945-1949.................................P 89
4. MI5: Defectors, Spy-trials and Subversion............................................P 91
5. The Counter-Offensive: From CRD to IRD.............................................P 122
6. The Fifth Column of Freedom: Britain Embraces Liberation.....................P 142
7. Liberation or Provocation? Special Operations in the Eastern Bloc............P 160
8. The Front Line: Intelligence in Germany and Austria..............................P 180
9. Operation Dick Tracy: Air Intelligence in London and Washington.............P 206
10. The Failure of Atomic Intelligence.......................................................P 218
11. GCHQ: Signals Intelligence Looks East.................................................P 233
12. Defeat in Palestine.............................................................................P 256

PART III THE COLD WAR TURNS HOT, 1950-1956.................................P 269
13. The Korean War..............................................................................P 271
14. Cold War Fighting in Asia..................................................................P 293
15. The Struggle to Contain Liberation.....................................................P 315
16. The CIA's Federalist Operation: ACUE and the European Movement........P 342
17. Atomic Deception and Atomic Intelligence...........................................P 371
18. At the Coal Face: Intelligence-Gathering.............................................P 392
19. Moles and Defectors: The Impact of Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean.....P 421
20. At Home and Abroad: The Information Research Department..................P 443
21. Defeat in the Middle East: Iran and Suez..............................................P 464
22. Victory in Malaya...............................................................................P 494

PART IV THE COLD WAR WIDENS, 1957-1963........................................P 519
23. Submarines, Spy-flights and Shoot-downs: Intelligence after Suez...........P 521
24. Missiles and Mergers: Strategic Intelligence...........................................P 550
25. Cyprus: The Last Foothold...................................................................P 567
26. Working Groups: Special Operations in the Third World...........................P 581
27. The Hidden Hand Exposed: From the Bay of Pigs to Profumo....................P 607

'Behind the scenes of history'................................................................P 637