In 1940, Winston Churchill dispatched a Canadian industrialist to New York with an extraordinary mission: to set up a secret spy network across both North and South America to cripple and confound Nazi propaganda and to fan the flames of pro-war sentiment. Sir William Stephenson (of 'A man called Intrepid' fame) set up shop in Rockefeller Center and built a vast intelligence network known as 'British Security Coordination (BSC)', the full story of which is now told for the first time. Stephenson's mission came at a time when the United States was still deeply influenced by isolationism. Stephenson's people soon launched an astonishing bagful of dirty tricks, unmasking Axis spies and slipping beautiful female spies into the Vichy and Italian embassies in Washington. His agents infiltrated American labor unions, harassed political enemies in Congress, and fed British propaganda to such prominent journalists as Walter Winchell and Drew Pearson, who were happy to give them wide circulation. Much of this took place before the U.S. had entered the war, when the country was still neutral and British spying was illegal. President Roosevelt winked at the law, and FBI chief, J. Edgar Hoover collaborated as well, albeit reluctantly. After Pearl Harbor Stephenson helped William J. Donovan set up the OSS which eventually became the foundation of the CIA. In 1945 Stephenson ordered three of his subordinates, Gilbert Highet, Tom Hill and Roald Dahl, to prepare an official report on the network's activities, of which fewer than ten copies survived in utmost secrecy until today. With a foreword by Nigel West, this is the first time it has been made public in its complete and unexpurgated form.

1998, St. Ermin's Press, , 0316644641,< R-03>,536pp, like new in d/w, unread, top page edges slightly spotted, ,
Subject...Intelligence, Espionage, Reconnaissance & Electronic Warfare
Web No. 36004-03..............................£69.00 

Small Landscape format. Ex libris plate on inside board, pages browning. No date but circa 1940. Original has been rebound so no publisher or any other information. c.100+ pages. Contains general information on identifying German Uniforms, insignia, ranks, medals, money, weaponry, and words of command.

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Subject...Intelligence, Espionage, Reconnaissance & Electronic Warfare
Web No. 3829-01..............................£25.00 

A study of the role and capabilities of US Intelligence in the mid 1990s. With chapters on the role of intelligence, global crime, organzational arrangements, The Central Intelligence Agency, Improved Analysis and International Co-operation. An interesting volume inasmuch as the views expressed pre-date 9/11. Produced and published by The Commission on the Roles and Capabilities of the United States Intelligence Community.

1996, US Intelligence Community, , 0160485355,< R-03>,xxv + 151pp + 67pp of appendices, diagrams, large format, shelf wear only, vg, , CARD
Subject...Intelligence, Espionage, Reconnaissance & Electronic Warfare
Web No. 24760-01..............................£20.00 

A report by John Gallehawk. An account of the critical events during the Battle of the Atlantic in 1943 with detailed tables and charts.

1997, Bletchley Park Trust, , ,< R-03>,48pp, tables diagrams, Good in card covers, , CARD
Subject...Intelligence, Espionage, Reconnaissance & Electronic Warfare
Web No. 37049-01..............................£5.00 

The developments in the fields of espionage and intelligence gathering since the end of the Cold War. New activities concentrate on anti-terrorism, economic espionage, arms proliferation, and the drug trade. The traditional field agent is being used to complement the new electronic systems used to gather intelligence data. Signed by the author.

1994, Hutchinson, , 0091740630,< R-03>,380pp illustrations, Very good in d/w, ,
Subject...Intelligence, Espionage, Reconnaissance & Electronic Warfare
Web No. 18997-01..............................£8.00 

Acceptable in card covers, some rippling at the back. The author's researches into the flight of Rudolf Hess from Germany to a crash landing on a Scottish hillside in May 1941 have unearthed many previously undiscovered documents from archives in Germany, Britain and the United States. Hess's silence during his fifty years of imprisonment led to much speculation on the reasons for his flight which was publicly dismissed by Britain and Germany as the act of a disordered mind.

2003, Harper Collins, , 0007141181,< R-03>,324pp illustrations, , , CARD
Subject...Intelligence, Espionage, Reconnaissance & Electronic Warfare
Web No. 10014-01..............................£4.00 

The story of a lethal spy triangle at work during the Second World War. The story centres on three men, one British, one French and one German, and the duels they fought out in an atmosphere of collaboration, betrayal and assassination, in which comrades sold fellow comrades, Allied agents and downed pilots to the Germans, as casually as they would a bottle of wine.

2016, Collins, , 9780008140823,< R-03>,376pp illustrations, map, Very good in d/w, ,
Subject...Intelligence, Espionage, Reconnaissance & Electronic Warfare
Web No. 13843-01..............................£6.00 

The author was a resistance worker in occupied Norway. A day to day account of an Englishwoman in wartime Oslo.

1953, Macdonald, , ,< R-03>,221pp 11 illustrations, Good in torn d/w, ,
Subject...Intelligence, Espionage, Reconnaissance & Electronic Warfare
Web No. 18948-01..............................£8.00 

With an introduction by Nigel West, this is the inside story of the spy who worked for Moscow and the Israelis. A 'false flag' is the most complex and dangerous of intelligence operations: the recruitment of an agent who believes he is working for an entirely different country. Fluent in German, Zeev Avni's speciality in Mossad was to cultivate former Nazi military advisers rebuilding Egypt's army. None would have co-operated with him if they had suspected that he was an Israeli intelligence officer. Nor would Mossad have promoted him if it had realised that their star performer was a long-term mole who for years had haemorrhaged secrets to the Soviets. When Avni's triple life was eventually exposed, he was tried in secret and sentenced to fourteen years' imprisonment. Now, for the first time, he tells his unique story of duplicity and betrayal.

1999, St. Ermin's Press, , 0316848360,< R-03>,215pp, 22 b/w photos, fine in d/w, ,
Subject...Intelligence, Espionage, Reconnaissance & Electronic Warfare
Web No. 24921-01..............................£10.00 

Published in association with the Imperial War Museum, with an introduction by Sebastian Faulks, an inside history of Special operations during the Second World War. A collection of personal testimonies covering all aspects of the agents work. Recruitment, Training, Operations and the Aftermath, tracking those who returned, and using their testimonies to find the last movements of those who didn't.

2009, Ebury Press, , 9780091918514,< R-03>,382pp illustrations, Good in card covers, , CARD
Subject...Intelligence, Espionage, Reconnaissance & Electronic Warfare
Web No. 34578-02..............................£5.00