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About
the Author
Nigel
West is an author specialising in security, intelligence, secret service
and espionage issues. He is the European Editor of the World Intelligence
Review, published in Washington DC, and the editorial director of The St
Ermin's Press. In 1989 he was voted 'The Experts' Expert' by the Observer.
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The Double Cross System of the War of 1939-45 by J.C. Masterman (ISBN:
1585741302). The former chairman of the MI5 committee that coordinated the activities
of double agents writes an account of his work. This 1995 Pimlico Books
edition includes the material omitted on security grounds from the first
1972 version, and discloses the true identity of the individual agents.
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The Penkovsky Papers by Oleg Penkovsky.
As controversy surrounded the original, CIA-sponsored book which purported
to be all the author's own work, Wheatsheaf released an edition in 1988
which explains the historical backdrop to the espionage debacle that
occurred as the superpowers came close to the brink of nuclear war in
October 1962.
This title is out of print.
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British Security Coordination (ISBN:
088064236X).
The semi-official history of BSC, the umbrella organisation in wartime New
York thataccommodated MI5, SIS, SOE and the Political Warfare Executive.
Sponsored by the BSC's Director, Sir William Stephenson, and written by
his staff as the war ended in 1945, the document was not released until
1998.
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False Flag by Zeev Avni (ISBN:
0316848360). Having been recruited as a Soviet spy in Switzerland during World War II,
Zeev Avni subsequently joined the Israeli Foreign Ministry and used his
diplomatic cover in Brussels and Belgrade to run Mossad operations. He
specialised in 'false flag' recruitments but was arrested and imprisoned
in Tel Aviv.
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FORTITUDE by Roger Hesketh (ISBN:
1585670758). The official account of the D-Day deception campaign that persuaded the
Nazis that the Allied invasion of Europe in June 1944 would take place in
the Pas-de-Calais, written by the imaginative genius who coordinated the
scheme.
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John Moe: Double Agent by John Moe.
The wartime memoirs of a Norwegian double agent who was landed in Scotland
in April 1941 as an spy for the Abwehr, and was run by MI5 with the
codename MUTT as highly successful double agent.
This title is out of print.
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