The Secret History of MI6 - Keith Jeffery [0]
Title Page
Copyright Page
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
PART ONE - EARLY DAYS
Chapter 1 - The beginnings of the Service
PART TWO - THE FIRST WORLD WAR
Chapter 2 - Status, organisation and expertise
Chapter 3 - Operations in the West
Chapter 4 - Working further afield
PART THREE - THE INTERWAR YEARS
Chapter 5 - The emergence of SIS
Chapter 6 - From Boche to Bolsheviks
Chapter 7 - Domestic matters
Chapter 8 - Existing on a shoestring
Chapter 9 - Approaching war
PART FOUR - THE IMPACT OF WAR
Chapter 10 - Keeping afloat
Chapter 11 - The European theatre
Chapter 12 - From Budapest to Baghdad
Chapter 13 - West and East
PART FIVE - WINNING THE WAR
Chapter 14 - The tide turns
Chapter 15 - From Switzerland to Normandy
Chapter 16 - Victory in Europe
Chapter 17 - Asia and the end of the war
Chapter 18 - Postwar planning
PART SIX - FROM HOT WAR TO COLD WAR
Chapter 19 - Adjusting to peace
Chapter 20 - Deployment and operations in Europe
Chapter 21 - A worldwide Service
PART SEVEN - CONCLUSION
Chapter 22 - SIS: leadership and performance over the first forty years
Notes
Bibliography
Index
One of SIS’s founding documents: the letter of 10 August 1909 from Admiral Alexander Bethell (Director of Naval Intelligence) to Mansfield Cumming offering him ‘something good’, which turned out to be appointment as Chief of the new Secret Service.
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Jeffery, Keith.
Secret history of MI6 / Keith Jeffery.
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1. Great Britain. MI6—History. 2. Intelligence service—Great Britain—History—20th century. I. Title.
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Foreword
Keith Jeffery’s history of the Secret Intelligence Service 1909-1949 is a landmark in the history of the Service.
At the initiative of my predecessor, John Scarlett, SIS decided in the run up to our centenary to commission an independent and authoritative volume on the history of the Service’s first forty years. The aim was to increase public understanding of SIS by