GCHQ (Government Communication Headquarters) is the successor to the famous Bletchley Park wartime code-breaking organisation and is the largest and most secretive intelligence organisation in the country. Richard Aldrich traces GCHQ's evolvement from a wartime code-breaking operation to one of the world's leading espionage organisations.

GCHQ

History

Aldrich, Richard J.

Military

HarperCollins, Publishers

Intelligence and the War against Japan offers the first comprehensive scholarly history of the development of the British secret service and its relations with its American intelligence counterparts during the war against Japan. Richard J. Aldrich makes extensive use of recently declassified files in order to examine the politics of secret service during the war against Japan, analyzing the development of organizations such as the Special Operations Executive and the Office of Strategic Services in Asia. He argues that, from the Battle of Midway in June 1942, the Allies focused increasingly on each other's future ambitions, rather than the common enemy. Central to this theme are Churchill, Roosevelt and their rivalry over the future of the role of Asia. Richard J. Aldrich's cogent, fluent analysis of the role of intelligence in Far Eastern developments is the most thorough and penetrating account of this latterday "Great Game" yet produced. Richard J. Aldrich is Senior Lecturer, Department of Politics at the University of Nottingham. He has edited several books, as well as the journal Intelligence and National Security.

Intelligence and the War against Japan: Britain, America and the Politics of Secret Service

Asia

Cambridge University Press

Americas

Intelligence, Defence and Diplomacy (Studies in Intelligence)

What was Britain's reaction to the death of Stalin? How has Britain reconciled a modern nuclear strategy with its traditional imperial defence commitments around the world? How has secret intelligence affected the Special Relationship' since 1945? Certain clear questions and perennial themes run through British overseas policy since 1945. This book examines them, drawing on new research by leading historians and scholars in the field.

Intelligence, Defence and Diplomacy: British Policy in the Post-War World (Studies in Intelligence)

Hopkins, Michael F.

Europe

Routledge

What was Britain's reaction to the death of Stalin? How has Britain reconciled a modern nuclear strategy with its traditional imperial defence commitments around the world? How has secret intelligence affected the Special Relationship' since 1945? Certain clear questions and perennial themes run through British overseas policy since 1945. This book examines them, drawing on new research by leading historians and scholars in the field.

Espionage, Security and Intelligence in Britain 1945-1970 (Documents in Contemporary History)

In post-war Britain, the secret services were more anxious to remain in the shadows than were those of any other Western country. This volume suggests that, although discreet, they were not marginal or peripheral; they were central to British policy-making and implementation. Human espionage, signals intelligence, internal security, counter-subversion, special operations and "black" propaganda were all brought to bear on Britain’s problems, and were co-ordinated at the highest level. Drawing on sources only recently declassified in London and Washington, Richard J. Aldrich offers an authoritative documentation on aspects of government that have often been poorly understood. These issues are set in a broad context, demonstrating their impact upon the direction of the Cold War, nuclear weapons policy, decolonization and Britain’s relations with major allies.

Manchester University Press

The Hidden Hand Britain, America, And Cold War Secret Intelligence

John Murray

Spying on the World: The Declassified Documents of the Joint Intelligence Committee, 1936-2013

Reproduces and contextualises the intelligence documents that influenced crucial UK Government decisionsThese 20 case studies reveal the declassified papers of the JIC, shining a light on the workings of Whitehall's secret world and the vital, previously unknown, role played by intelligence in pivotal events across the 20th and 21st centuries.For more than half a century, the Joint Intelligence Committee or 'JIC' has been a central component of the British Government's secret machinery. It represents the highest authority in the world of intelligence and acts as a broker between the spy and the policy-maker. From WWII to the War in Iraq, and from the Falklands to the IRA, it has been involved in almost every key foreign policy decision.

Cormac, Rory

Goodman, Michael S.

Edinburgh University Press

Reproduces and contextualises the intelligence documents that influenced crucial UK Government decisions These 20 case studies reveal the declassified papers of the JIC, shining a light on the workings of Whitehall's secret world and the vital, previously unknown, role played by intelligence in pivotal events across the 20th and 21st centuries. For more than half a century, the Joint Intelligence Committee or 'JIC' has been a central component of the British Government's secret machinery. It represents the highest authority in the world of intelligence and acts as a broker between the spy and the policy-maker. From WWII to the War in Iraq, and from the Falklands to the IRA, it has been involved in almost every key foreign policy decision.

Paranoia with respect to Russia raged in the wake of World War II, just as Churchill had foreseen: fear of a "nuclear Pearl Harbor" and the growing challenge of political stability in Europe gripped the Western world. The advent of new and terrifying weapons of war and annihilation-atomic bombs, biological and chemical weapons, and intercontinental missiles-contributed to a pervasive atmosphere of menace in the US, Britain, and all the countries of Western Europe. And in the thick of this cold war, it was the Secret Service and its intelligence operations that took action, that was capable of creating early warning systems and making inroads in the years of the cold war. It was a time of what Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. called "the rise of a religion of secrecy," a time that fostered the clandestine relationships and treachery of such infamous spies as Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, Klaus Fuchs, and Kim Philby. 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. Using the formidable mass of material recently declassified by the US, as well as many files released by the British, Aldrich details the "special relationship" of cooperation between the British and the US, as well as the rampant rancor and suspicion that followed public amity and cooperation in the fight against Nazi Germany and Japan. This is a gripping and highly readable history.

The Hidden Hand: Britain, America, and Cold War Secret Intelligence

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GCHQ

Intelligence and the War against Japan: Britain, America and the Politics of Secret Service

Intelligence and the War against Japan: Britain, America and the Politics of Secret Service

Intelligence, Defence and Diplomacy: British Policy in the Post-War World (Studies in Intelligence)

Intelligence, Defence and Diplomacy (Studies in Intelligence)

Espionage, Security and Intelligence in Britain 1945-1970 (Documents in Contemporary History)

The Hidden Hand Britain, America, And Cold War Secret Intelligence

Spying on the World: The Declassified Documents of the Joint Intelligence Committee, 1936-2013

Spying on the World: The Declassified Documents of the Joint Intelligence Committee, 1936-2013

The Hidden Hand: Britain, America, and Cold War Secret Intelligence