The spying game : the secret history of British espionage / Michael Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Michael, 1952 May 1-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intelligence service--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Intelligence service.

Espionage, British.

History.

Great Britain.

Espionage, British--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

vii, 502 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm

Edition:

Revised edition.

Other Title:

New cloak, old dagger.

Place of Publication:

London : Politico's, 2003.

Contents:

Prologue: The Return of the Great Game 1

1 The Art of Espionage 9

2 A New Order for the Spies 17

3 Britain's Three Great Spymasters 35

4 Discarding Morality 51

The Security Service MI5

5 Learning from the Crook 73

6 The Double Cross System 88

7 Subversion, Terror and Crime 106

8 Fresh Challenges for MI5 121

The Secret Intelligence Service MI6

9 Sharp Practice and Green Ink 143

10 Turning on the Tap 162

11 The Next Enemy 182

12 The Ring of Five 203

13 Payback 225

14 The Great Game Continues 238

GCHQ Signals Intelligence

15 The Government Code and Cypher School 257

16 The Codebreakers of Bletchley Park 271

17 Signals Intelligence and the Early Cold War 290

18 GCHQ and the New World 305

Military Intelligence

19 A Contradiction in Terms 327

20 Setting the House in Order 342

Parallel Diplomacy

21 Talking to Terrorists 365

22 The Backchannel 376

The New Threats

23 A Very Dirty Game 397

24 Milk and Honey 417

25 Poisonous Snakes 434

Appendix 1 The Green Ring 455

Appendix 2 Armed Forces Intelligence Departments During the First and Second World Wars 460

Appendix 3 How to Tail a Spy 464.

Notes:

Previous ed.: published as New cloak, old dagger. London: Gollancz, 1996.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1842750046

OCLC:

59390846