MI6: Fifty Years of Special Operations

932 Pages·66.22 MB·English

by  Stephen Dorril

INSIDE THE COVERT WORLD OF
HER MAJESTY'S
SECRET INTELLIGENCE SERVICE
STEPHEN DORRIL
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Also by Stephen Dorril
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Stephen Dorril
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CONTENTS
List of Acronyms vii
Preface xiii
PART ONE: FROM HOT TO COLD WAR
1
1 The Second World War 7
2 Reorganisation: Special Operations 18
3 Containment 35
4 'Uncertain Allies' 49
5 The World-View 58
6 Propaganda 71
7 Roll-Back 81
PART TWO: THE FRONT LINE
91
8 Germany and the 3 x 5s 95
9 Austria: The Shooting Gallery 118
10 Rockets, Bombs and Deception 133
PART THREE: THE SOVIET EMPIRE
161
11 Intermarium 165
12 The Promethean League 185
13 Belorussia 215
14 The Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations 223
15 Poland 249
VI CONTENTS
16 The Baltic States 268
PART FOUR: THE BALKANS AND RUSSIA
301
17 Greece and the Creation of the Para-State 305
18 Yugoslavia: TheGoldenPriest, StolenTreasure and theCrusaders 328
19 The Musketeers in Albania 355
20 The NTS and 'Young Russians' 404
21 The British and Scottish Leagues for European Freedom 425
PART FIVE: THE CHANGE 451
22 The European Movement and 'the Battle for Picasso's Mind' 455
23 Rolling Back 'Roll-Back' 483
24 The Technical Fix 518
PART SIX: THE MIDDLE EAST 529
25 'Unbroken Dreams' 533
26 Palestine 543
27 Cyprus 550
28 Iran: 'Unequal Dreams' 558
29 Suez: Assassins and Thuggery 600
30 The Macmillan Doctrine 652
31 The Musketeers in Yemen 677
PART SEVEN: MODERN TIMES 701
32 The Secret Intelligence Service 703
33 The Last of the Colonial Wars 729
34 The Slow Death of the Cold War 746
35 The New Agenda 758
36 On Her Majesty's Secret Service 783
NOTES
801
INDEX
863
ACRONYMS
OF
LIST
ABN
Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations
ACC Allied Control Commission
ACEN Assembly of Captive European Nations
AGUE American Committee for a United Europe
AIOC Anglo-Iranian Oil Company
AIS Anglo-Greek Information Service
AK Armia Krajowa - Polish Home Army
AKEL Cypriot Communist Party
AMG
Allied Military Government
ANA Arab News Agency
ANC
African National Congress
ASIS Australian Secret Intelligence Service
BAOR British Army of the Rhine
BCC Belorussian Central Council/British Control Commission
BCR Belorussian Central Representation
BCSO British Central Scientific Office
BFM British Free Movement
BK Balli Kombetar - National Front (Albania)
BLEF British League for European Freedom
BLO
British Liaison Officer
BMEO
British Middle East Office
BND
Bundesnachrichtendienst
BNR
Belorussian National Republic
BoT Board of Trade
BSC British Security Co-ordination
BUF British Union of Fascists
BW
Biological weapons
CBDE Chemical Biological Defence Establishment
CCF Congress for Cultural Freedom
VIII 11ST OF ACRONYMS
CFEU Conseil Francais pour TEurope Unie
5 1 J:
CI Counter-intelligence
CIA Central Intelligence Agency
CIB Central Information Bureau
CIC Counter-intelligence Corps
CIG Central Intelligence Group
CIO Czech Intelligence Office/Congress of Industrial
Organisations
CIOS Combined Intelligence Objectives Sub-Committee
CO
Constitutional Organisation (Greece)
COCOM
Co-ordinating Committee
COI Co-ordinator of Information
COSEC Co-ordinating Secretariat of National Union of Students
CPA Communist Party of Albania
CPGB Communist Party of Great Britain
CPI Central Personality Index
CR
Central Registry
CROWCASS Central Registry of War Crimes and Security Suspects
CRPO Combined Research and Planning Organisation
CRW
Counter-revolutionary warfare
CSDIC Combined Services Detailed Intelligence Centre
CW
Chemical weapons
DAD Department of the Army Detachment
DCIS Directorate of Counter-intelligence and Security
DFP Directorate of Forward Plans
DIS Defence Intelligence Staff (Norway)
DP Displaced Person
DSZ Delegation of Armed Forces (Poland)
EAM/ELAS
National Liberation Front/National Liberation Popular
Army (Greece)
ECA European Co-operation Administration
EDC European Defence Community
EDES National Democratic Hellenic League
EEC European Economic Community
ELD Union of Popular Democracy (Greece)
ELEC European League for Economic Co-operation
ELINT Electronic intelligence
EM European Movement
EOKA National Organisation of Cypriot Combatants
ERP European Recovery Programme
EUF European Union of Federalists
EVW
European Voluntary Workers
EYC European Youth Campaign