MI6: Fifty Years of Special Operations
- ISBN-10
- 1857027019
- ISBN-13
- 9781857027013
- Series
- MI6
- Category
- Intelligence service
- Pages
- 907
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2001
- Author
- Stephen Dorril
Description
A comprehensive history of the UK government overseas intelligence service, known as MI6. Among other topics, it covers the postwar recruitment of former Nazis; anticommunist campaigns in the Baltic; Operation Stalin; a European terrorist network; and the dealings of Blake, Penkowsky and Philby.
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