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MI5, the cold war, and the rule of law / K. D. Ewing, Joanna Mahoney, Andrew Moretta.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ewing, Keith, author.
- Mahoney, Joanna, author.
- Moretta, Andrew, author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Great Britain. MI5.
- Great Britain.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (528 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- This innovative study of the status, powers, and activities of MI5 during the Cold War contends that MI5 was subject neither to effective political nor legal scrutiny, and examines the operations of the Security Service for civil liberties, and the contemporary relevance of Cold War practices.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- The Stewart report
- The security service mandate
- Surveillance targets
- Surveillance methods
- Democracy under surveillance
- The rule of law under surveillance
- The guilty secret
- Surveillance and the purge
- Vetting and the secret blacklist
- Surveillance and the industrial purge
- Purging the trade unions
- The ubiquitous Lord Radcliffe
- Lord Denning takes over
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2020.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-255060-8
- 0-19-185956-7
- 0-19-255059-4
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