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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> WRITTEN BY THE RENOWNED EXPERT NIGEL WEST this book exposes the operations of Britain’s overseas intelligence-gathering organisation the famed Secret Intelligence Service MI6 and traces its origins back to its inception in 1909. In this meticulously researched account its activities and structure are described in detail using original secret service documents. The main body of the book concerns MI6’s operations during the Second World War and includes some remarkable successes and failures including how MI6 financed a glamorous confidante of the German secret service; how a suspected French traitor was murdered by mistake; how Franco’s military advisors were bribed to keep Spain out of the war; how members of the Swedish secret police were blackmailed into helping the British war effort; how a sabotage operation in neutral Tangiers enabled the Allied landings in North Africa to proceed undetected; and how Britain’s generals ignored the first ULTRA decrypts because MI6 said that the information had come from a well-placed source called BONIFACE’. In this new edition operations undertaken by almost all of MI6’s overseas stations are recounted in extraordinary detail. They will fascinate both the professional intelligence officer and the general reader. (SP)